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by Rob Gillaspie
August 9, 2005 at 5:13 p.m.
Meet Me At The Drive-In
An announcement: I am officially boycotting movie theaters.Let me explain... I had the misfortune of taking in a matinee at the Southwind, that gurgling, strobing behemoth that seems to have swallowed up every other theater in Lawrence. Not having a car, I was forced to take the bus, which only seems to pass through that part of town every six hours or so. But I had an entire afternoon to kill, so I figured, What the hell? I stuffed my pockets full of quarters and caught the next ride out.The movie was scheduled to start around 2:50. The girl at the ticket counter put the running time at an hour and forty five minutes, which was tacked on to the usual fifteen minutes worth of trailers. I did the math in my head and estimated that I would make it back to the bus stop with ten minutes to spare. I bought a box of ju-jus and a barrel full of soda. I was good to go.You with me so far? I found a seat and waited through the slides: movie trivia and real estate ads. A typical theater-going experience. The lights dimmed, the sound came up... and then the motherfucking COMMERCIALS started.Cell phones. Body spray. Diet cola. They came at me a mile a minute: BRUSH YOUR TEETH. JOIN THE ARMY. EAT SOME BULLSHIT. One right after the other, streaming on an endless loop, burning a hole right through the center of my brain.I was fucking LIVID. Since when does a movie theater need corporate sponsorship? Especially a sprawling, name-brand monstrosity like the Southwind? I PAID for my ticket, everyone else PAID for their tickets, shouldn't that render the need for commercials obsolete? As far as I'm concerned, the inflated cost of admission is all the sponsorship a movie theater needs.Long story short: I missed the bus home. The movie started forty minutes later than scheduled, and as I emerged into the sizzling afternoon heat, it dawned on me that I was in for a long walk home. All because of a few crummy commercials. I made silent promises to myself as I headed down Iowa Street: I will NEVER use Colgate toothpaste. I will NEVER drink Coca Cola. I will NEVER join the Army.Above everything else, I will NEVER pay to see another theater movie again.Unless, of course, that movie is showing at the DRIVE-IN.They don't show commercials at the drive-in. Hell, they barely even run trailers. You still get animated bits exalting the virtues of a snack bar wonderland, complete with backflipping hot dogs and legion of musical corn nuts. A cartoon stopwatch ticks onscreen as the voiceover narrator counts down the minutes to showtime. After this, a couple of previews, a puff of magic, and BAM! Prepare to enter cinematic heaven.Everyone has fun at the drive-in. Children dangle from the monkey bars while mom and dad guzzle beer in the back of their pickup. Delinquent teenagers smoke dope in the bathroom between rounds of awkward, premarital groping. Old timers parade around in their kit cars, never missing an opportunity to immerse themselves in bittersweet nostalgia. The drive-in culture carries with it a sense of community; there is a relaxed, almost familial atmosphere amongst the patrons that you never find at a "normal" theater. Even the movies seem better. Regurgitated crapfests like "The Amityville Horror" remake take on a godlike quality, inspiring awestruck bewilderment in ways that only a ten-story Ryan Reynolds can. The allure of the drive-in is overwhelming, irresistable.My earliest childhood memory involves being in the car, seated on my mother's lap, staring at the giant screen. The movie was Star Wars, and I remember looking over at the metal speaker hanging from the driver's side window the first time Darth Vader made an appearance. I wondered, how did they get his voice into that little box? How did they make everything so BIG? There was a certain kind of magic involved, and I've carried that feeling of wonder with me well into adulthood. Even though the drive-in of my youth has long since vanished (The Big Chief in Topeka, now a Super Wal-Mart), and even though the sprawling metropolis of Lawrence, Kansas has yet to hop on the revival bandwagon, there are still many places in the area to take in a double feature underneath the summer stars:THE BOULEVARD DRIVE-IN (1501 Merriam Lane, Kansas City, KS)
A Kansas City mainstay since 1950, the Boulevard is a personal favorite. The Boulevard has survived flood, fire, and famine to come out on top of the heap, and they aren't going away anytime soon. They have the best old-school concession line, the flashiest neon marquee. They were also the first drive-in theater in the world to upgrade to digital sound. Best of all, the drive to the box office is an anticipation-building thrill ride through darkened hills and shadowy trees, giving the whole affair a feeling of secrecy and excitement. I-70 DRIVE-IN (8701 Old 40 Highway, KCMO)
TWIN DRIVE-IN (291 East Kentucky Road, Independence, MO)
STARLITE DRIVE-IN (3900 S. Hydraulic, Wichita, KS)_The last "twin" drive-in in the state, the Starlite is a clean, professionally ran establishment that has garnered rave reviews from moviegoers all over the world. Apparently the picture is sharp, the sound is crisp, and the capacity is limitless... and yet, nobody seems to have any photographic evidence of its existence. Probably because it's in Wichita, and nobody ever escapes from there alive. _As you can see, there is simply NO EXCUSE for wasting your money at the local overpriced google-plex... Why spend all your money on TV commercials and overpriced bags of candy when you can be a part of the DRIVE-IN EXPERIENCE? The movies are always two-for-one, the concessions are cheap, and best of all, you'll be doing your part to keep alive a vital part of our cultural heritage. The drive-in theater may be experiencing a rebound these days, but it could still use all the help it can get. Wouldn't you care to lend a hand?
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pissykitty (Melissa Lynch) says…
I am a regular patron of my local drive-in. Hilite 30 in Aurora, IL. For $6 I get two movies, a couple of previews for other movies, and the little animated reel you mentioned. We honk our horn when the hotdog jumps into the bun. The cops sit in there on weekends, so if we want beer we have to pour it into cups to drink. You can smoke cigarettes through the whole movie, and if you park in the way back you can smoke a little pot, too. The drive-in is far superior to the theater for all of the reasons you mentioned, plus most people have sound in their cars that puts most theaters to shame. I'm so glad you put out the call to help keep them around. (I just wish they would play some old movies now and then along with all the new stuff.)
scary_manilow (anonymous) says…
There are still a few drive-ins across the nation that host classic and cult movie festivals... My friends in Atlanta go to such an event every year. In 2004, they got "The Wild Angels" with Nancy Sinatra and Davie Allan in attendance. This year, they get "Spider Baby," "The Big Bird Cage," and "Foxy Brown," hosted by two of my cult faves, Jack Hill and Sid Haig. I can't imagine that something like that would fail around here, but who's got the dough to throw these things together?
pissykitty (Melissa Lynch) says…
Oh, I guess they do show the local advertisement slides, but only before the first movie. It's either too light out to see them or I'm not there in time, but I can't recall ever seeing them.
davidryan (David Ryan) says…
I've often thought -- daily, it seems -- sitting across from it, out front of the Pig, where I usually see you, that the open square on the corner of 9th and New Hampshire, just south of the parking garage, all grass and empty, would be an excellent place to show an outdoor film, projected against the parking garage wall. Bring your folding chair; pay a tiny amount and watch a cool movie outside. Buy your soda pop or iced mocha at one of the fine establishments nearby. Or an ice cream cone.
Show "Through a Glass Darkly" or something.
Not a drive-in, but it would be cool.
Joel (Joel Mathis) says…
For the first time ever: I wish I'd written Rob's blog.
Favorite drive-in experience: 1992, and the drive-in in Wichita. My girlfriend and I are watching "Beauty and the Beast" (don't ask) when I notice all the kids in the car in front of me have their heads cranked to the right. ... Where "Basic Instinct" was showing and easily viewable by the 6-year-olds.
Good times.
liz (Liz Weslander) says…
Great blog.
Big movie theaters make me anxious. I think that it is possible to have an image that is too clear, and sound that "surrounds" in excess.
I'm surprised Topeka doesn't have a drive-in.
scary_manilow (anonymous) says…
davidryan: I've never seen you sitting in front of the Pig. Not once.
Joel: How many of your date stories end with you screening Basic Instinct with a bunch of six-year-olds?
liz: Topeka once had TWO drive-ins: The Cloverleaf and the Big Chief. It also used to have a beautiful old theater downtown, the Dickinson, which had the old-style flashing marquee and a roof that opened up in the summer. They tore it down to build a parking garage. In the past five years, all of the theaters in Topeka (much like here in Larryville) have been bought up and shut down by Hollywood Theaters in an attempt to force patrons to go to their giant superplex on the outskirts of town. There is only one first-run movie house left in Topeka (where there was once at least EIGHT), but at least they still have a second-run dollar theater, which still puts them one up over our town.
wbabbit (Will Babbit) says…
Unfortunately, at 2:30 a gallon it's more expensive to go to drive in in KC...
rednekbuddha (Kelly Powell) says…
Lawrence did use to have a drive through....now theres a sonic and a strip mall...you know, things we really need.
edie_ (anonymous) says…
Mr. Gillaspie,
I'm especially moved by the last line of your blog:
"Wouldn't you care to lend a hand?"
However!
Would you be willing to clarify to your audience? Exactly how do we "lend a hand" during a late night trip to the drive-in theatre? Please, be detailed.
squishypoet (anonymous) says…
When I was in Mexico they had these big long commecials before the movies... but they were commercials for mexico. Like, "Look at all the wonderful, colorful, delicious fruits and vegetables we grow here! Support Mexico!" Or, "Look at all the gorgeous places there are to visit in Mexico! Go visit a different part of Mexico! Be a tourist in your own land!" It was strange.
Carmenilla (anonymous) says…
Thanks for giving the Boulevard the props it deserves! My in-laws turned me on to it some years back. We also used to frequent the 63rd Drive-in when it was still running. Both are/were great authentic slices of Americana.
We have a tradition with the Boulevard. We go to the original Quicks BBQ just past the drive-in, grab some greasy fried food, set up "camp" about 3 or 4 rows back from the screen. I like to be close so I can see the muchkin when she's playing on the jungle gym. Truly there is nothing more pleasurable than popping open whatever contraband booze you"ve snuck in and smoking a smoke and wathcing the freaks congregate. I love the Boulevard because it brings trashy people of every race together in harmony. And you can't beat $7 for 2 first-run movies. Hello, we saw "Star Wars" and "Batman Begins" there!!!
We love it and hope that it never goes away.
edie_ (anonymous) says…
Carmenilla,
YOu are so right. It is seriously all you describe and more. I can't believe how much ecstatic fucking rapture i go into every time I can tune up my flask to the sound of the cartoon hot dog that jumps into the animated BUN (which is such secret dirty yet family friendly PORN really). And I love how the concession stand is such a surreal cornucopia cheap dream of nachos and popcorn and jalapeno poppers for so much less of a mortgage than what you have to drop trousers for at the life- erasing digi-fucked fart-gassing southwind for fuck's sake. If I had any money worth counting I would WILL my ESTATE to keep the Boulevard alive and go there every weekend. See you there?
THX1138 (anonymous) says…
"As far as I'm concerned, the inflated cost of admission is all the sponsorship a movie theater needs."
Yep. Sneaky rat bastards. Remember when TV was sponsored only by advertisers? Now you pay $40 a month to watch the same amount of commercials. How did they sneak that one by? Is radio going the same way? I guess they're trying with the satellite radio thing.
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
Rob, have you gone sentimental on us? There are sweet undertones in this blog. Wowza! Well done.
Sadly, I've never been to a drive-in. Guess I better get out there and expand my worldliness.
Will: $2.30/gallon...is that why it's been awhile since I've seen you and the wifey? You guys gotta visit Lawrence one of these days and CALL me. I just gave Margaret my digits (again). No excuses!
chrysanthalbee (chrys anthalbee) says…
"bravo! oscar performance mr. gillaspie!" -- jean shallot
"beautiful and moving. made me want to weep." -- gene siskel, from beyond the grave
let's all go to the lobby. let's all go to the lobby. and get ourselves a snack.
now i wanna go.
lazz (anonymous) says…
Think Lawrence is liberal now? Back in the day, they used to run porno movies at the drive-in on 6th Street ... sweeeeet ...
actually, I think they only did that once or twice, and the whole fiasco might have contributed to its demise ... damn shame all around ...
lazz (anonymous) says…
Unfortunately, Rob, your superb blast down memory lane, and compelling arguments for supporting and expanding the drive-in revival, caused us to lose sight of your premise: movie theater commercials.
Man, I'm so with you. When I first encountered these early this summer (probably hadn't been to the theatre since last fall, for HERO), I flipped a nut, and the people I was with thought I was Joe Squaresille. Like, it's been going on all the time for years and years ... No, it hasn't, and it needs to be stopped NOW.
With ya on both counts, Mr. G.
Carmenilla (anonymous) says…
Yah, edie, the hot dog jumping into the bun cartoon (anyone remember Grease?) is quite tittilating (sp?). I also love the super cheesy announcer. He sounds like he should be hosting American Bandstand or something.
All in all, its a joy to see movies there. My hubby and his siblings have been going to the drive-ins in KC for about 30 years now. He remembers seeing "Up in Smoke" at the 63rd St. Drive-In back in the day. Can you imagine how GREAT that would've been?
My greatest memory of the Big Chief in Topeka was seeing "The Cat From Outerspace" and getting ice cream from the tiny little walk-up DQ. This was 20+ years ago but it still remains one of my fav childhood memories.
Also, I've heard from some folks that the Drive-In in Osawatomie (?) is really good.....Or is it Overbrook? Dang it! I can't remember!!!
Shelby (anonymous) says…
You can smoke weed and drink beer....at **The Drive-In**.
I would put up with an HOUR of commercials for that luxury.
wbabbit (Will Babbit) says…
My favorite part is taking some kids to a movie, then they play those idiotic soft-core porn "Bod" commercials. Glad they take the time to censor Grand Theft Auto...
And beatle, I don't know, ms. anonymous!
WIDOWMAKER (anonymous) says…
hey rob,
don't know if you knew about it but in topeka there was also the community drive-in. it was in east topeka right across from highland park high school, maybe a block down, on california. saw a few flicks there growing up. also saw plenty at the cloverleaf and big chief. ahhh, those were the days.
also, are you old enough to remember the grand theater? it was turned into a revival house back in the early 80's and i used to love going to movies there because you were offered old movies and newer movies to choose from.i could see buster keaton or the marx brothers one day and the blues brothers the next.
Carmenilla (anonymous) says…
You smoke the doob, Shelby? I'm shocked...I thought you had morals....
Shelby (anonymous) says…
I also call 1-800 numbers and fart into the phone when somebody picks it up.
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
Oh Will! Those Bod commercials are so hot. *choke* *gag* Can't say that with a straight face. I really do feel for the actors that are certainly not compensated enough to embarrass themselves like that...
And to pretend you don't know me...did I embarrass ya'll that much when I decided to take a spin on the kiddie carousel downtown? We really do have some trust issues, don't we? It only took how many months/years for you to believe that I'm not a mere figment of the missus' imagination? If I MUST prove myself--Jimmy Fallon. Nuff said. I choose to remain anonymous because, well er...I have issues talking on phones with strangers. I don't want those Lawrence.commers calling me to confirm who I am. Just a little quirk that makes me so endearing.....
Ok, enough yacking. I've got things to do today...
edie_ (anonymous) says…
I remember the Community Drive-In on California. When I was too young to get into rated R movies my friends and I would ride the ferris wheel at Boyles Joyland over and over again to catch glimpses of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" or "The Exorcist."
Carmenilla (anonymous) says…
A double feature of those 2 movies, edie, could cause a young girl to go over the edge.
I saw "The Exorcist" waaaay to early. I pretended to fall asleep in my parents' bed and then watched the edited-for-TV version thru slitted eyes and a hole in the blanket. I was only 8 and it scarred me for life! Still can't watch it alone and I continue to have an overactive imagination about the prospect of coming into my daughter's room to find her brandishing a crucifex and screaming obscenities. *shudder*
lazz (anonymous) says…
just back from a trip to seattle, where I saw a really cool "drive-in," I guess like this community thing you're talking about -- one corner in this hip neighborhood is just a regular, pay-for-the-day commercial parking lot. but the wall of the building bordering it to the west is painted as a movie screen -- dead black with the white screen rectangle -- and then on friday and saturday nights they play movies onto it. I think you can pay a few bucks and park your car there and get beer or whatever, but you can also see it from the decks of bars and restaurants, sit on the grass and watch ... just a really cool, mellow deal ... would be awesome to be able to do that downtown somewhere ...
pissykitty (Melissa Lynch) says…
Gas is now $2.79 for premium here. bastards!
pissykitty (Melissa Lynch) says…
Sorry, $2.59 for regular. wtf???
cfdxprt (anonymous) says…
pk - there's two forces at work on gas prices -
1) All of the sudden 2 billion more people (China and India) are finding that gas is a convienent thing to use. Well, it's not 2 billion yet, but the number grows everyday...
2) The US hasn't built a new refinery in 30 years, so we're capacity limited, no matter how much oil we can buy.
I was talking to some guys the other day who are starting a company to mine oil sands in Canada. They have a very lucrative 5 year contract signed with a major oil player (MOP) that says they are guaranteed 60-80 bucks a barrel. That means that the MOP doesn't expect prices below 60 a barrel very often and that they expect prices to go over 80 several times...The 5 years on the agreement was negotiated by my friends. Oil is going to get expensive...they want the ability to renegotiate after the intial contract that got them starting capital.
The refinery issue is not easily solved! Since I'm intimitally involved in the process sometimes - it takes a minimum of 5 years to build a refinery. There's been talk of; can you build me a refinery in 3 years or less, but no orders have been placed yet, and no one has said that 3 years is doable.
End result - we used to laugh at the Europeans for having $4 a gallon gas, that might seem cheap soon.
My major problem with the whole situation is that the French are the only people who are devoting real money and scientific effort towards making fusion work as a power source. Water is cheap - at least for now...
Shelby (anonymous) says…
actually, cfdxprt, the US, Brittain, and other major countries are contributing greatly to the fusion cause. The French happen to be housing the facility on their soil. The facility won't be complete for 10 years, and even then it's only an experimental/testing one. It will be 50+ years, scientists predict, before fusion power is even practical.
ladylaw (Terry Bush) says…
Do you think movie theaters are going the way of the big reptiles? I mean, if everyone boycotts theaters (except the few remaining drive-ins) because of commericials, will the movie makers simply start releasing them directly to HBO's etc.? I too hate all the commercials they play, but plan accordingly. When the movie start time says XYZ, we assume it means + 15 minutes of commercials, and come in late (i.e. on time) to see the movie start. Just like how we record TV shows and speed through the commercials with the handy "fast forward" button! Is the issue commercialism? Where would media (of all types) be without paying commercials/advertisers? We ALL hate it (we say) but it's a fact of capitalistic life....
cfdxprt (anonymous) says…
Shelby - I know we invest, but not near enough. With a quick Google search I found that the European nations want to get to a point where they are spening 2% of GDP on fusion research. For us that would be 2.35 billion per year, give or take a few dollars. I'm busy this morning so I didn't have time to do in depth research, but I'm guessing our investment doesn't come close to that each year. The French have the research facility because they have chosen nuclear as their future power source and they understand that the current nuclear cycle produces very hazardous waste; so they want to change that. We've been content to try to keep on oil and coal as long as possible.
Since I'm a strict nationalist, I would like to see us develop the technology, then license it to our friends; not try to do it by committee. Also, I feel that this isn't a technology that should be developed by governments, the payback on making power from water, with Helium as the only pollutant, would be astronomical. One of the big energy companies should tell their investors that for the next 10 years you aren't going to see any ROI but then we'll have technology everyone else has only dreamed about - yes, I think it's doable in 10 years with the right investment. The engineering behind it isn't that complex; sort of akin to sending a man to the moon, there's problems to solve, but with the right resources they can be solved.
Do I think that my dream of energy companies getting their heads out of their butts will ever happen? No! But I would be there to invest if it ever did.
Shelby (anonymous) says…
Cfdxprt - this explains a lot:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/...
France wins billion dollar fusion research plant
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Wednesday 29th June 2005 13:47 GMT
The European Union announced yesterday that the world's largest ever fusion reactor will be built in France, at a total cost of around $12bn.
Competition to secure the 30-year International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has been intense, but Japan withdrew its bid last week leaving the floor open for the French bid. The US and South Korea has been supporters of the Japanese bid, but the French option had the backing of the EU, China and Russia.
The ultimate goal of the project is to finally crack the problem of how to tap into the immense power of nuclear fusion. Fusion is the same process that goes on in the centre of the sun, and it holds the promise of almost inexhaustible, clean safe energy generation.
For nuclei to fuse, a plasma needs to be heated up to several hundred million degrees while it is contained within an intense magnetic field. The trick will be finding a way of doing this without putting in more energy than is generated.
The problem is that the solution is always, and has always been 25 (or so) years away.
The details of how the project will be financed have still got to be hashed out, but the EU is expected to pick up 40 per cent of the tab, France a further 10 per cent, with the remainder shared between the other international partners: the US, Russia, Japan, South Korea and China.
Once the facility has been built, experiments are expected to start in about 2015. The research is likely to continue for around 20 years.
In the best case scenario, a demonstration plant would be built in 2030, with the technology being developed commercially by the middle of the century. ®
cfdxprt (anonymous) says…
Shelby - Thanks for the link, I keep up on most nuclear research, but that was a new one for me.
Check this one out...
http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn...
It's semi-old information...but the DoE doesn't tend to release current facts on our nuclear stockpile. Essentially, we spend 4-5 billion per year on maintaining our stockpile for killing people, outside of what DoD spends for maintaining weapons systems to deliver them.
The current project is budgeted at 12 billion. If we said that we're going to invest the same amount in developing nuclear technology for human good, instead of human destruction, we'd pour 40-50 billion into the problem in 10 years. You can do a lot for that type of money, and you can attract the best minds on the planet for a project that is really funded and can fundamentally change humanity for the better.
quinn (Patrick Quinn) says…
hey Rob--
I've been away, missed a few blogs, have to catch up, but this is good stuff. There's proposed ordinance, I think in Los Angeles, that would require theaters to advertise the actual time the film begins, for all the reasons you so eloquently discuss above.
Excellent comments, too, esp to a Topeka boy who grew up w/ the Community and Big Chief and Cloverleaf. (Boyle's Joyland, sheesh...) I lived about three blocks from the drive-in at Lake Shawnee. They stopped taking tickets around ten p.m.; on most nights you could catch the second feature for free. That's where I saw night of the living dead.
Back in the day my pal Jim, who occasionally posts here and who introduced LSD to Lawrence circa 1965, lived in a second- floor apartment in the 1000 block of Mass. He and his pals showed avant-garde films out their window onto Weaver's. Cool.
scary_manilow (anonymous) says…
There seems to be a consensus forming here that we shold bring back the whole "movie projected on the side of a building" business. I wonder how much trouble we could get into for something like that?
Quinn-- Have you been back to T-town lately? The Chief marquee is now the billboard for a Super Wal-Mart. Heartbreaking.
davidryan (David Ryan) says…
"I wonder how much trouble we could get into for something like that?"
I don't see why there has to be trouble involved in showing a film outside downtown.
maybe lawrence.com can help get it going somehow. phil?
quinn (Patrick Quinn) says…
I haven't been back to Topeka in a quite a while. The last time, sadly, for the funeral of a friend who died young, I walked around my old turf on the lake and saw how much everything is changed. Melancholy stuff.
There has been _at least_ one film shown guerilla-style on the north side of Weavers in the past few years.
scary_manilow (anonymous) says…
The political climate has gotten so touchy-feely as far as downtown is concerned, I'm worried that they will find some way to shut us down if they can't squeeze some cash out of us.
edie_ (anonymous) says…
Three years ago some friends of mine showed an entire disc worth of episodes of MR. SHOW on the side of the tall new apartment building on 10th and New Hampshire. We sat behind the Replay and watched and the only time the cops bothered us was to say that we had to get out of the alley so that we wouldn't get run over.
All you really need to do is run your DVD player through a film projector. I'm thinking we also brought along a speaker for sound.
edie_ (anonymous) says…
"Where would media (of all types) be without paying commercials/advertisers? "
Whoa I think you can call off the coronary ladylaw. It's a fun blog about the drive-in. You can put away the Xanex and the protest signs for now as I'm sure all is well in the world of Pepsi and Southwind.
P.S. Enjoy the body spray ads.
DavidRose (anonymous) says…
Yeah, I can't get enuff of this Elizabethtown trailer I must have seen ten times so far this summer. Orlando Bloom... It just makes me sick!!
campblood (anonymous) says…
Once a year the Chucky Lou A/V club holds their "Sleaze Under The Stars" at the Boulevard. It's great, they screen a triple feature with classic genre trailers in between the movies. I've seen greats such as...Dolemite, The Human Tornado, The Candy Tangerine Man, Infra-Man, Shogun Assassin, Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave, The Corpse Grinders, Zombie, Eternal Evil of Asia, Scum of the Earth, Shanty Tramp and Black Vengeance.
scary_manilow (anonymous) says…
Really? Tell me more... Is there a Chucky Lou website, pray tell?