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American Drive-In [VHS]

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Hard Rock Zombies is playing at the local drive-in, and an assorted cast of characters are all there to watch it one evening. There are too many oddball characters to go through, but some highlights are a film snob who continuously refuses his date's advances to critique the film, a nerd who has seen the film numerous times and shouts out the dialogue, a guy trying to get his girlfriend to go down on him, two little old ladies, a prostitute operating out of her trailer, mischievous children, a drunk projectionist, and a guy trying to make a drug bust to become mayor. Horror fans will recognize Phil Fondacaro starring as one of the stars of Hard Rock Zombies(which he is) who comes to the drive-in to watch and praise his performance in the film.
Most of the film shows these characters engaged in a bunch of pranks and shenanigans, but a plot unfolds as Jack and his girlfriend Bobby Ann are continuously harassed-and later assaulted-by a gang of four thugs. Numerous attempted rapes and beatings by these thugs kinda offset the comedy aspect.
I'm obviously in the minority here, but I really enjoyed this movie. Even with all it's cliched characters and situations, and it's juvenile attempts at humor, I found myself not so much laughing out loud(which I did do though a time or two), but pleasantly grinning often.
Makes me wanna watch Hard Rock Zombies again, and I never thought I'd say that!

Mature adults only! Not for children to see! This is the film that Danny Nucci doesn't want anyone to see (as he jokingly said on a Yahoo Chat Event on March 7, 2001). This film contains a whole cast of characters. They all come to the "City Limits" Drive-In to see the mock film "Hard Rock Zombies". You will meet the booth lady who has to remind people about their raffle tickets. But she can hold her own when it comes to four thugs, like Sarg and Mike. You've got a movie projector man who is nuts. The only nice people are Jack and his country girl, Bobby Ann. Also in the Drive-In is a gay guy and his straight-acting friend, Benny. A fat family that believes in dieting, but here at the drive-in, they will have their last feast. Then there is the man who is a candidate to be Mayor. All he has to do is crack a case. He sends his young son out into the drive-in field to see who has "Mary-Jane". His daughter, Deena, goes to find some ...action of her own. Two old ladies come to see "Hard Rock Zombies". Then a nice dwarf man (Phil Fondacaro [H.G. Golas]) who is an actor in the film that is showing is so excited at seeing himself and his great performance. But that's not all. More zany people come to this drive-in. You have a young Asian couple. He's in the mood, she's not. Then she is in the mood, but he is not. Another couple, "Danny" and "Marge". Danny wants her to do a certain ... act for him. She won't do it because it's gross. He keeps trying to make her do it. Then you got the prostitute in the camper. Guess what she makes the candidate-for-Mayor do? Then you have the two sex-crazed couples with the old man in the next car watching. Why doesn't Danny Nucci want anyone to see this film? He is the boy in the red shirt on the bicycle. And don't forget the prize is a bouquet of roses, so keep your raffle tickets.

Terrific fun cult film about a night at the drive in where Hard Rock Zombies is screening, what you haven't seen Hard Rock Zombies?
No need to get that film because the best of er being the worst of is shown in this film so you really are getting two films in one.
I thought this film was a fun nostalgic trip and got a real kick out of it, it made me laugh.
Highlights being: The two elderly ladies, one with a hearing problem ( I think she is the elderly lady in The Wedding Singer) trying to make out the films plot.
The overweight family who use the night at the drive in as a pig out night.
The scene where some guy swaps the sound on screen to a couple making out (this scene is such a laugh) plus others but what's up on the screen is funny too as Hard Rock Zombies is made fun of here and fittingly so.
Give it a watch, you'll either love it or hate it.
I love it, it's fun.

I know everybody says it , but it was so dumb , i liked it. The story is simple , and looks like it was shot with a home movie camera..you know super 8.Yet there was something i really liked about it...i think it was the bad guys that made the movie for me. Right "momma"? It isn't real good quality film making , and it is a bit blurry at times , and the sound is , well, not great...but i still thought it was fun to watch. After all , it takes place in the DRIVE IN, and who of us can't enjoy that place setting??

This originally straight-to-VHS cowpie is a lamer-than-usual entry in the softcore sex comedy sweepstakes. It stars no one and has little reason to exist. It was produced and directed by Krishna Shah, with Shashi Patel as the Executive Producer. Clearly, these are a couple of Indian guys who tried to make a fast buck off us stupid Americans (can you blame them?) by slapping together a cheap piece of crap and putting it in a video box accentuating its (minimal) sexual content. This alone would not necessarily invalidate the film. Unfortunately, it would appear that these guys got all of their information about life in the U.S. by watching teenage sex comedies and added not one whit to the old formula. A young couple in a van visit the tiny City Limits Drive-In, where they are harassed by slick-haired, leather jacket-wearing toughs. The stereotype-ridden cast of characters includes lots of stupid old people, a prostitute who boffs guys in her trailer, two gay cowpokes, and fat people who eat like pigs in fast motion and disgusting close-ups. There are buttloads of pointless shenanigans, such as a guy hooking up the drive-in speakers to play the sound of a couple making out. Hardy-har-har. The film showing at the drive-in is Hard Rock Zombies, an actual movie that was also produced and directed by Krishna Shah (man, has this clown distinguished himself). It's about a bunch of dead heavy metal guys that come back to life and eat people and do a bunch of other stupid stuff. People attending the drive-in are constantly referring to the movie and repeating dialog from it. A midget who actually appeared in Hard Rock Zombies sits in his car and comments on how good he is in the movie. There's some occasional nudity and very lightweight sex. In one scene, a girl sitting on top of a guy is topless, but is clearly wearing [intimate wear] while supposedly having intercourse. An incredibly tasteless and criminally unfunny continuing bit has a guy trying in vain to get his girlfriend to give him a hummer. (...) The film gets its one and only star for its setting, the tiny drive-in that is the best part of the movie. Drive-in fans like myself have little enough reason to check this stupid thing out. Normal people should avoid it entirely.

I wanted to see this movie to see Emily longstreth,but the movie was realy bad,is probably the worst movie where she had a leading role.Wired to kill was a lot better than this and never maded to dvd and Emily had a leading role in that one as well.By the way someone knows what Emily is doing now,i havent hear from her in years.

American Drive-In is a really strong contender for worst movie ever made, and no movie I have ever seen tries harder to claim that ignominious crown. Not content to merely torture us with its own painfully unbearable presentation, the movie injects itself with heavy doses of director Krishna Shah's earlier monstrosity of a movie, Hard Rock Zombies. I see this in one of two ways. Either Krishna Shah was the most evil, despicable director to ever live, or else Shah thought that American Drive-In would not seem nearly so bad as it obviously is compared to Hard Rock Zombies. There really and truly ought to be a law against movies this bad.

There's really no story to speak of, but I'll mention some of the things that happen here. Basically, every disgusting and insane person (not to mention bad actor) in a five hundred mile radius come to the drive-in to watch the dreadful Hard Rock Zombies. There is a city boy and country girl who seem to think the movie is about them because they alone actually attempt to act at one point (big mistake). A gang of hoodlums spend the night terrorizing people and attempting to grab and rape the country girl. A mayoral candidate is trying to catch the local drug dealer in town, but the film his son records of him nabbing the bad guy ends up being a film of him doing something else entirely. Let's see. There's also a guy trying to make his girlfriend perform a little service for him, a clueless geek who pontificates on the deep philosophical aspects of Hard Rock Zombies while his hot and randy date fumes. You have a couple of middle-aged gay men trying to be funny, two old women who have a hard time figuring out modern cinema, some rambunctious kids, an insane projectionist, a dwarf trying to enjoy his own performance in Hard Rock Zombies, and a few other characters I am desperately trying to forget.

Other than a scene in which one of the more annoying characters gets the stuffing kicked out of him, there's almost nothing to enjoy here, folks. When all is said and done, however, one character does deserve special kudos. A young man takes it upon himself to add some actual comedy to this movie by planting a microphone on a certain van that's a rockin' and somehow rigging it up so that the activities in the van play over the sound system in place of the movie soundtrack. Thanks heavens for such enterprising youth; without that fine young man, I have to wonder if I could have come out of American Drive-In with my sanity intact.