Customer Reviews

Drive Thru

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Ok what is with all the bad reviews for this movie? Does no one have a sense of humor anymore?

Mackenzie (Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester) finds herself to be one of the many targeted kills of Horny the clown. Since he only communicates with her through innocent childhood toys, its up to her to save his next possible victims- and ultimately herself.

This is not a serious horror movie. And its not MEANT to be a serious horror movie. That fact is made blatantly clear with the plot: A knife wielding clown? Named HORNY? But that doesn't take away from the overall fun of the movie!

If you liked the horror movies of yesteryear, this movie is a really good homage using plot devices from Nightmare on Elm Street, Carrie, IT, Chucky... plus there's some good comic relief sprinkled throughout the film as well. The acting is definitely NOT bad. The woman who played Mackenzie's mother made me cringe a few times, but besides that, I think they all did a pretty good job with what they were given!

So bottom line: If you're looking to watch a serious horror movie, I would stick to Stephen King. If you're into kitch and stupid/funny horror (like me), then you'll like this.

If your into slashers, especialy sadistic clowns, this will not disappoint.

A mentaly challanged boy who was burned alive in a drive thrue resteraunt comes back for revenge against those that wronged him.

Full of Sadistic comedy, great killings and a wonderful plot full of revenge and judgment. I was suprised by the quality of the film compared to such films as Mr. Jingles this is a good step up.

Drive Thru is neither a good nor a bad film, existing merely to entertain by its brainless and clichéd storyline and silly comedy aspects. Offering a decent-looking killer clown, but some uninspiring deaths, it's a movie that has few positives and many faults, but in the end if you're simply looking for a cheesy slasher entry to waste an hour-and-a-half on then you can do a lot worse than this.

Mackenzie Carpenter (super-hottie Leighton Meester) is a typical teen on the verge of adulthood. She suffers from extreme boredom in her town of Blanca Carne (trans: White Meat). That is until a killer-clown named "Horny" starts chopping her friends and classmates into McNuggets! The vicious clown communicates w/ Mackenzie through a Ouija board, a Magic 8-Ball, and an Etch-a-Sketch, giving her vital clues as to whom his next victims will be! Can Mackenzie and her remaining friends (including Rachael Bella from The Ring) stop this bozo-berzerker, or will the bloodbath continue? DRIVE THRU is funny, gory, and even suspenseful in places. I enjoyed the goofy, dark humor and homage to 80s-type slashers. Watch for the death-by-microwave sequence, as it's a real goosher!...

One thing I do before I rent a straight to DVD movie is...I flip the case over and look at the movie stills on the back. If there are no movie stills or if the stills look low budget, then I either don't rent the movie or I log on to amazon.com to check out the reviews. The stills on the back of DRIVE-THRU gave a good indication it wasn't cheaply made and could possibly be a hidden gem. And a hidden gem it was!



The leads were well cast. The one-liners were actually funny. And the villan was scary. Although the mystery surrounding has been seen before, because the movie was so well done, the worn-out premise is easily overlooked and works.



Scariest scene is when Horny's mask is torn off and his true face is revealed. How the heroine saves herself is brilliant! Let's hope the sequel is just as good!

After reading the reviews for the Direct-to-DVD slasher flick, Drive Thru, I expected to like it. However, I didn't expect to consider it as being one of the best movies of 2007.
Drive Thru has just about everything that a great B-movie should. It has a lot of laughs, gore, and cheese. If only it had some nudity.
Most of the death scenes are fun, especially when the guy is cut in half, his guts spilling out. Then Horny The Clown says "that kid sure had a lot of guts." It's stuff like that that makes Drive Thru brilliant and one of the most entertaining movies of the year.

This is one of those horror films that works because it is just so hysterical. There are more laughs in this film than in many comedies, and the "cheese factor" of the special effects makes it even more laughable.

Leighton Meester is a very likable actress, no matter what she is in, and clearly she delivers in this role as a headstrong teenager who is a bit more sophisticated than the typical young girl in horror films. Her cast of well-intentioned but dim-witted friends are funny also. But the cameos and small roles are what makes this film. The Morgan Spurlock cameo is a nice touch, as well as some other characters such as the fast-food restaurant owner (John Gilbert), the fat rambling detective (Larry Joe Campbell), and the deranged janitor (Sean Whalen) are all funny and well-played.

When it comes down to it, there are two types of movies in this genre: ones that take themselves WAY too seriously and fail because they try to be too "smart," and there are the other films that succeed because they are so preposterous by their very nature that they make humorous situations out of the self-parody. This film falls into the latter category. There is plenty of gore, screams, off-color jokes, and funny one-liners. After all, when we go through a drive-thru, we're not looking for a five course meal. We're looking for a particular item or two that will satisfy our appetite at the time. That is what this film will do.

The movie opens with an over the top gory scene involving a grease fryer.The villain makes his first appearance here. Kind of a cool costume in my opinion. And frankly, the victims were very annoying, so good riddance. The opening credits start, and you are forced to listen and watch a cheesy girl band play an awful song over the credits. What is funny here, the singer of the cheese band later accuses someone at a party of being "Banana Republic". Um, because she is just so punk rock and cool herself (sporting Blink 182 posters in her bedroom)
Some murders take place that night by a guy in a clown suit by the name of Horny the clown.
The hipster chick, Mackenzie, then plays with a Ouija board, starts talking to a magic 8 ball and using an Etch-A-Sketch to contact the killer. She also plays the album "Highway To Hell" backwards, for clues to the murders.
There are some pretty funny commercials for the fast food restaurant placed throughout. I don't know if anyone caught this, but the HellaBurger manager is the dude that filmed the Super Size Me documentary, and he is pretty funny in his short scene.
Anyways, it all unfolds as to why the clown is after Mackenzie. This leads us to the final showdown scene that is reminiscent of the movie Happy Birthday To Me.
Fast Food kills!!!

I have a question(i know it's a corny one.) Did any of you Amazonians work in a fast food restaurant? Well, I did. To me, this movie was pretty ironic being that my "break food" was either a Big Mac or a Double Cheeseburger meal. Anyway, to the point, I never thought that "Drive Thru" would be a horror/comical/slasher movie. The cast members were a little obscure but hella-good! Now, we have a beautiful teenage girl named Mackenzie played by Leighton Meester. She's the lead singer of her band. She plays her heart out towards her fans and afterwards she chills with her boyfriend and the rest of the group. The night begins when the teens smoke weed and laugh about the Ouja Board. They think it's a loved one contacting them, but they were wrong. Horny the Clown is the killer with a huge meat cleaver. He slices, he dices, and makes chicken strips in three different ways. He was the one that sent Mackenzie the message on the board. And it doesn't stop there. See, Horny had a real name, and it was Archie. He was just an original, shy teen. He was unpopular and became a mascot at a hella-burger restaurant. He had a crush on Mackenzie's mom when she was a teen. And because of that, her boyfriend hated him for it. So, he and his crew thought of a plan to play a prank on him. And when Archie is celebrating his b-day all by himself, they start by breaking in the place and teased him, somebody knocked him over, one thing lead to another and the crew left him to burn. Since then, nobody told a soul. After that, Horny was ressurected into a murdering hellspawn and now he goes after teen kids, making them pay for the sins of their parents. As for Mac, she has to be threatened and chased by him constantly. The things that Horny says are hilarious. The particular scene I like is when he scares the hell out of those stoners. He literally slices and dices them in the playroom. What a bloody mess! And about Larry Joe Campbell's character Crockers, I hated him. He was always bossy, stuffing his face with junk food and arrogant, too blunt and fat. Ms. Meester has a permanent purpose in movies. She has beauty, charisma, humour and style. Hopefully, after she's done with "Gossip Girl", she can start her acting career, for real. All in all, I liked this movie. It has everything a slasher fan could ask for. Be prepared to see it again if you have it on DVD, I wonder if they can sell a Special Edition, we need to see those bloopers again. I clap my hands to this one, great job well done. HA HA!

The synopsis was pretty good and I'm a fan of slasher movies, so this seemed like something I'd like. Eh....it was oooooook. It could have been a lot better though. I'd say, if you're looking to pick this one up it's iffy so don't pay more than like 5.00 for it, that way you don't feel like you've lost out too much if you end up hating it.