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• Actors: Anthony James, Gini Eastwood, Katherine Justice, Anne Saxon, Nancy Ison
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: February 5, 2008
• Run Time: 692 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0010T3ULQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,715 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some Duds, But Some Great B-Movie Moments (spoiler alert), June 30, 2009

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St. James (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set (DVD)

These films for the most part are neither cult movies nor are they classic. However, the drive-in moniker is dead on, and if you enjoy 70's b-films that are slow-medium paced, with a lot of swimming pools, sunsets, joint smoking, feathered hair, tight white pants, vans, motor homes, motorcycles, bummer endings, gratuitous T & A (in most of them), and occasionally hilarious moments of really bad dialogue and acting, then this is a good set, especially for the price. My only gripes are 1) the sound is often a bit muffled, gets better if you have it through a stereo and can thin it out with more treble/less bass; 2) no subtitles. these films are perfect to set it and forget it, kill the sound and put on a record, but it'd be nice to still be able to follow the story with subtitles. 3) the provided summaries are sometimes misleading. But these are minor complaints considering the overall pleasure-to-dollar ratio available here. Drive-in movies were a genre all their own, and shrugged off the burden of plot like it was just some unnecessary hassle.

MALIBU HIGH
Worth the price of admission alone. This is the one that really shines out of this bunch. Much stronger language than all of the others, classic dialogue ("Maybe if you weren't so concerned about dirt, and dust, and greasy buildup, then Daddy wouldn't have left, and wouldn't have had to kill himself because he couldn't get it up anymore!"), plenty of salaciousness, and great low budget jaw-dropppers like a high school dance that takes place in a Mexican restaurant, not to mention wicked 70s wall-rugs and phrases like "Check you later!" Malibu High RULES. If only they could all be this good.

CINDY & DONNA
The second best film in this set, and a classic theme song. Donna is the slutty older sister that ultimately lures the uptight Cindy into a trampy lifestyle. Tame by today's standards but otherwise not for the prudish. One of many with an astonishingly abrupt ending.

THE TEACHER
Pretty entertaining by virtue of its lameness. The by-line on the package is totally misleading, however - she does not 'corrupt the morality of an entire school,' not by a long shot. This one features a lovely, Cheryl Ladd-ish teacher figure - it's summer vacation so other than one shot outside the school during the opening credits, there is no school-related activity whatsoever. This has very TV-style acting, shooting, everything, then the obligatory T & A every 20 mins or so. It's like watching The Brady Bunch with partial nudity plus some light crime. The goofy villain, Ralph, is a hilarious scene-stealing goon. What's unfathomable is why the Teacher would be interested in a dork like Sean who greatly prefers working on his van to having sex. Seriously, count the number of times he references working on his van, it's insane. This one also has a classic theme song that plays through 75% of the movie.

BEST FRIENDS
Weird flick. Goofus and Gallant take a motor home on a multi-state trip as one last fling to celebrate Goofus getting out of the Army and Gallant getting married. But Goofus just can't face the end of the footloose good times with his buddy, so he sets about to destroy the impending marriage. Ann Noland really shines in this movie as Jo Ella - she's got a great spontaneity and charm. But questions linger: where the hell did Goofus put his motorcycle when he was riding in the motor home? And why didn't Gallant just waste him? Pretty classic drunken strip scene in an Indian bar.

THE SISTER IN LAW
This is actually a fairly serious movie about two bearded brothers from a well-to-do family. The elder brother, Edward, was a briefly successful writer who has since fallen into wearing white turtlenecks and performing deliveries for organized crime types who have a flair for dramatically handing envelopes to one another. His marriage to a gorgeous though small-nippled woman is dissolving when the younger brother, Robert, our protagonist, returns to the swank family house from his idealistic exploration of America. Swimming in the pool, wearing tennis clothes, and banging Edward's older soon-to-be ex-wife suddenly loses interest when Edward shows up with his mistress, another lovely woman just about Robert's age. Eventually Edward has a movie opportunity in L.A. right about the time he's scheduled to do a particularly risky package pickup in Canada, and he gets Robert to do it for him by letting him bring the mistress along. Plays out like a pretty good auteur type of film of the period if you're down with the laid-back 70s pacing.

THE STEPMOTHER
This one looks & feels like an extended episode of Barnaby Jones or Police Woman. The only thing remotely 'cult classic'-ish about it is 1) there's a scene where the elite group of friends are dancing during the daytime at the beach house to flute music...and one of the dudes is revealed to actually be playing a flute, and 2) a scene where the cops bring in 'Sanchez' or 'Lopez' or whoever and the guy lays out a very 70s racist caricature of the hot-blooded Latino. Otherwise you'll swear you're watching TV at 12:30 at night in 1972.

TRIP WITH THE TEACHER
No relation to The Teacher. This one is pretty dark. Two creepy bikers trap 4 or 5 teenage girls and their teacher in an abandoned shack and proceed to torment and rape them while they cry. If you like relentlessly hopeless situations like in Cape Fear, then have at it, but this is not for me.

PICK UP
Why this one is presented first I can't imagine - it is easily the most boring one in the bunch. Two lovely young women catch a ride with a 70s dude who is driving a motor home through Florida. Ultimately it becomes soft porn in a swamp, with some psychedelic scenes of ambiguous mysticism, interspersed with hostile phone calls from the fat sweaty man expecting the motor home to be delivered to its destination in a timely fashion. Oh, and some flashbacks about being molested in a church. Don't expect a happy ending, or a payoff for all the shots of sunsets, roadside landscapes, blah blah blah.

151 of 163 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Less than two dollars a movie?, February 12, 2008

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Brian J. Greene "djbrian" (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set (DVD)

Talk about value for your entertainment dollar? There are 8 films in this collection, which is selling for just under ten bucks! And the movies are great, if you are into 1970s camp. There are conflicts that come about in people's lives in every film, the conflicts usually the result of a sexual/romantic situation. Somebody central to the film dies in every one of them. Bellbottoms and other 70s paraphernalia (disco music, tight jeans, feathered hair, etc.) are widely represented. The music is cool in that "Convoy" kind of way. Really, for exploitation fare the stories are pretty compelling, but still just offbeat enough to give you the campy giggles. I would pay $10 for any one of these movies - getting 8 of them at that price almost makes me feel like I have stolen something.

94 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cheese Heaven, February 26, 2008

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This review is from: Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set (DVD)

This is the best DVD value on Amazon. Eight movies for $10 and not a bad one in the bunch. These B movies have some well known actors, good stories and decent quality. Plenty of topless nudity too. A must buy. You won't be sorry.