The Drive-In (A B-Movie with Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas)
Joe R. Lansdale, writer of Westerns, science fiction, mysteries, horror and fantasy, whose most recent books include the anthology "Best of the West", tells the tale of the Friday All-Night Horror Show Drive-in in which a truly "captive audience" experiences the horrors of Popcorn King.
Joe R. Lansdale, writer of Westerns, science fiction, mysteries, horror and fantasy, whose most recent books include the anthology "Best of the West", tells the tale of the Friday All-Night Horror Show Drive-in in which a truly "captive audience" experiences the horrors of Popcorn King.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553274813 (0553274813)
Publish date: July 1st 1988
Publisher: Bantam Spectra Books
Pages no: 158
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
Pulp,
Horror,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comix,
Bizarro Fiction
Series: The Drive-In (#1)
Das größte Drive-In-Kino von Texas ist durch einen Kometen von der Außenwelt isoliert. Viertausend Autos sind eingeschlossen, während der leere Wahnsinn die Kinobesucher umzingelt."Drive-In" beinhaltet Lansdales gesamte Drive-In-Trilogie. Es beginnt mit dem Kometen, der Jack und seine Freunde im Aut...
I especially like Lansdale's wackier stuff like Zeppelins West and Flaming London. The Drive-In is almost as wacky as those books. However, it's not an absurd pastiche. Instead, it's an homage to B-movie horror flicks (obviously). I found this to be a highly entertaining read, once I got past the dr...
All hail the Popcorn King!!This is some great B-rated reading. As Lansdale said himself. What the Drive-in movies use to be. But something was missing and it wasn't the black & white comic.Maybe the actual story by itself would have been more interesting.
This one was a trip. A B-Movie romp with B-Movies Gods! Good solid fun and good times…trapped in the drive-in with the Popcorn King! 3.5*
Cheap fun, like a B-horror movie. Lots of gore and cussing with an insensible plot with some funny observations thrown in by the narrator in a detached way. In one word - Bizarro. Good for killing-off an hour or so if you are in the mood to read something with an over-the-top plot like this.
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