Movies Joe Bob Should Show on The Last Drive In- 78 Days to Halloween

Here are 20 movies that would be great to watch on The Last Drive-In as selected by fans on Darcy the Mail Girls Ranker page. Movies are in order of most votes.

 Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Tom Atkins Rules, the song is catchy and Darcy would fangirl big time

They Live

I've come to chew bubble gum and watch Joe Bob, and I am all out of Lonestar.

The Thing

It's only the best sci-fi horror movie ever made and The Losman's favorite scar movie.

The Return of the Living Dead

More Brains and more awesome Darcy cosplay, plus tons of zombie boobs

Evil Dead II

It may be a sequel, but its a hell of a great drive-in movie, great opportunity to get Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

The Evil Dead

It's a low budget movie, but you wouldn't have Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness without it. 

Fright Night

Being a Peeping Tom was never the same when you discover you live next to a vampire. 

Night of the Creeps

Thrill Me!

Creepshow

So much fun, and Adrienne Barbeau make this an instant classic episode.

Dead Alive

Peter Jackson is going to roll in his grave if yall don show this one. A movie made for the drive-in

Dawn of the Dead

Shopping Malls and Tom Savini greatness 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Stretch, and Choptop are born to be Drive-In mutants, and this would be an epic episode for these two awesome Chainsaw Alumni. 

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Many consider this to be the best of the Freddy movies, and not all of them are wrong. 

From Beyond

Stuart Gordon was a National Treasure, and if it were not for him, Barbara Crampton might have stayed a popular soap star. 

Candyman

If we whisper his name too many times, he may send some bees to Joe Bob's trailer.

An American Werewolf in London

It's a classic and who doesn't love a good werewolf movie.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

I only to see Joe Bob turned into cotton candy.

Trick or Treat

No, not that one, the one with Ozzy Osburne, Gene Simmons, and Skippy from Family Ties. 

Motel Hell

Meats meat and the drive-in mutants need to eat. 

Night of the Demons

Late night parties in spooky houses with Linnea Quigley and Amelia Kinkade don't get better than this. 

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)- Joe Bob's Last Drive In

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Ever wonder what would happen if you shoved a piece of wrought iron into your leg. Ever wonder what would occur if you suddenly developed a metal fetish. Using some techniques that seem more suited for a rock video, Tetsuo starts and finishes as if the director was on speed, and maybe something stronger. The film starts with a shocking scene of a man who cuts open his leg and inserts a metal shaft into the skin. The pain notwithstanding, he then runs into the street and gets hit by a passing motorist. The man in the car then suddenly develops a strange personal affliction, while he is shaving a piece of metal sticks out of him. He then finds himself being stalked by an unknown woman who is not entirely human. Even though the movie is about an hour-long, Tetsuo has the pacing of a much longer film. The rapid sequences and nightmare-like imagery create an atmosphere that rivals something by David Lynch.

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)- Joe Bob's Last Drive In

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Dir- Ruggero Deodato

Like the spaghetti westerns of the sixties, Italian cannibal films were the rage in the seventies. Like many of those westerns, these films had similar plots as well as the same tragic conclusions. A group of white explorers would enter the dense jungle of the Amazon rainforests and meet up with seemingly friendly cannibals who were only looking to have these guests as their next meal. With the many films made, one wonders why no one noticed the very similar techniques and stories. We see women gang-raped, and men getting castrated or having their skulls opened up for a dessert of fresh brain. Everyone seemed to be a potential meal for each other. Cannibal Holocaust is considered by many to be the most graphically intense and brutal film ever made even compared to its grotesque contemporaries.   

The film begins with an award-winning documentary expedition, who travel to the Amazon to film cannibal tribes. Months pass, and not a word is heard from them. A rescue/search party is put together and led by a Professor Harold Monroe, along with his guides he travels to the Amazon and hopes to discover the fate of the expedition and possibly get their lost film. The footage brought back by Prof Monroe is shown to an audience, and the outcome of the film crew is revealed for the remainder of the film. What sets this film apart from the other cannibal stock is the brutal nature of both the cannibals and the explorers. The addition of real animal deaths is quite unsettling and resulted in the film being banned in Italy. It may have been included to suspend our belief, but little can divert the fact that this is still a cannibal movie and a ruthless one. The filmmakers revel in showing us that the explorers are, at times, just as cruel and brutal as the savages they are documenting. Director Ruggero Deodato created the film as a commentary on sleaze journalism and how they often exploit death for ratings. Yet, he became a target of criticism due to the animal deaths that occurred. As a sign of the human condition, this film gets bloodier, darker, and unsettling with each scene in hypocritical contrast to the Directors supposed intent to criticize the very violence this movie seems to excel in. Cannibal Holocaust was the most notorious of the many cannibal films of its era; it is also the first found footage movie predating The Blair Witch Project by 20 years. 

The Exorcist III (1990)- Joe Bob's Last Drive In

The Exorcist III (1990)

Dir- William Peter Blatty

George C Scott is a police detective named Bill Kinderman investigating a series of grisly murders committed by a serial killer. Unlike your run of the mill psycho, we have something that may very well tie into the supernatural and the very forces of good and evil. His investigation turns up a copycat killer who is following the wicked deeds of the Gemini Killer, who was executed the night of Regan McNeal's exorcism in the first installment. We learn even more may be happening in this well-made sequel that returns some of the glory and terrors that Exorcist 2 lacked. Scott is compelling, taking the role played by the late Lee J Cobb in the first, but who can forget Brad Dourif in one of his creepiest performances. Well worth a look.

Heathers (1988)- Joe Bob's Last Drive-In

Heathers (1988)

Dir- Michael Lehmann

We all remember those cliques in high school; you know the snobby kids who had it all and made those outside suffer, and of course, we always wanted in. It seems that Westerberg High is being run by a trio of mega bitches, each named Heather. Their latest addition is a young lady named Veronica, and she is used for nothing more than writing bogus love letters. Suddenly a new and mysterious boy moves in and takes a liking to Veronica. JD is a loner, and his sense of humor is quite deadly. Together they engineer a series of fake suicides to make the school a better place and end up making the very teens they hated into tragic victims of the teenage problems they are mocking. "Heathers" came upon the scene and opened up the doors of dark comedy to a whole new generation of MTV vidiots. The film is very morbid, and the subject matter is quite shocking, but the direction of Michael Lehmann is well played, and the portrayals of the students involved come across most effectively. This film does speak out to so many of us who went to school and felt left out. Most noted are Wynonna Rider and Christian Slater as the murderous duo, but kudos go to a pre 90210 Shannon Daugherty, who portrays the scheming brunette, Heather Duke.

Maniac (1980)- Joe Bob's Last Drive-In

Maniac (1980)

Dir- William Lustig

Another movie that made my Disturbing Movies list. A low-budget gore flicks with no moral perspective that its makeup artist wanted to be removed from its credits. Tom Savini would later become famous for his award-winning FX as well as acting and directing many later horror films, yet his realistic FX is the only saving grace in this gutter movie. Like many horror films, we have a loner with no social grace or personality, in this case, a real mama's boy who enjoys murdering women and using their scalps to adorn his mannequins. The nature of this habit is nothing more than his perverse sexual pleasure. He is suffering from the torment of an abusive mother and longs for her love. Pity, because the audience is treated to little more than the graphic scenes of murder and the mutilation of the victims shown in gory red detail. Like many other slasher films, this one displays strong anti-woman feelings and the attitude that women are only good for killing and raping. Showing little if any value this film only seems to sink into the abyss of cheap slasher flicks, yet it's clear immoral tone and downright negative feelings towards the woman in general place it in the hall of the disturbed. Carolyn Munro appears very much against type as a woman who is drawn to this sicko, but will he do her in or can she escape his attention.

Blood Sucking Freaks (1977)- Joe Bob's Last Drive-In

Blood Sucking Freaks -(1977)

Dir- Joel M Reed

There are those films that are so outrageous that they are considered camp, yet this is not one of them. Also known as The Incredible Torture Show, this title seems more appropriate for this sick film. The setting for this movie is an off-off-Broadway Grand Guignol style show. The wicked magician Sardu shocks people with his realistic torture scenes that are not only genuine but also live in front of an audience. The theater is a cover for his group of sadists who enjoy kidnapping and torturing young naked women. Behind the scenes, his assistant Ralphus keeps some caged women cannibals for their evil deeds. Sardu also enjoys using these women as human dartboards and urinals. Whether it is meant as a joke is debatable as these scenes are shown with a sick tone and the events are taken for granted, talk about pure exploitation. The real trick is that the special effects are some of the worst on-screen; the blood looks like red paint, and a decapitation scene was laughably bad. The scenes of torture and dismemberment are so fake a nine-year-old could do better. Either way, Blood Sucking Freaks is a sad attempt to attain camp status, and since the movie was made with a small budget, it shows. Try sitting through this one more than once.