ATTENTION MUTANTS! Let’s make this last Halloween special (on Shudder) mirror the first one 8 years ago.
Here we come for 👻JOE BOB’S HALLOWEEN HOUSE PARTY👻, the LAST Halloween show of The Last Drive-In on Shudder. We’re gonna party like the plague victims in Nosferatu!
Double feature starting at 9 Eastern/6 Pacific tonight Friday the 23rd. This double feature special will go on demand 10/25. The best part: Folks on Death Row can do ANYTHING WE WANT!
This is our final descent! I'll update the post later with the two movies shown! Can't wait, so excited for this! 🖤🎃💀🧙♀️
UPDATE: I just asked Google what 2 movie are being played and it said these:
The 1st movie up is BODY BAGS (1993) – A horror anthology film directed by John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, featuring John Carpenter as the creepy, wisecracking morgue attendant host.
Trailer HD by Scream Factory:
John Carpenter On Developing - Body Bags (1993):
VHS cover:
DVD cover:
DVD cover:
Scream Factory Blu-ray Cover A:
Scream Factory Blu-ray Cover B:
The 2nd movie is WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL (2013) – A retro-style found footage film that recreates a late-1980s local live television news broadcast interrupted by vintage-style commercials.
Trailer:
Q&A with Chris LaMartina (WNUF Halloween Special, Out There Halloween Mega Tape):
Custom VHS cover made from a scan of the original VHS tape release of the film:
Official Limited Edition Black Cassette VHS release, sold out at alternativecinema.com:
WNUF Halloween Special VHS cover Artwork by Justin Osbourn @slasherdesign:
USA DVD cover:
USA Blu-ray slipcover:
USA Blu-ray front and reverse cover, check out Blu-ray screenshots at cultsploitation.com:
Scary Movie is a 1991 horror comedy film directed by Daniel Erickson. Its stars John Hawkes as Warren, Suzanne Aldrich as Barbara, Ev Lunning as Sheriff Pat Briggs, Mark Voges as Jerry, Zane Rockenbaugh as Billy, Jason Russel Waller as Brad, Virginia Pratt as Shelley, Ernie Taliaferro as Laughing Man, Zeke Mills as Basil, Butch Patrick as Eddie, Lee Gettys as John Louis Barker, Trant W. Batey as J. J., and Lorne Loganbill as Otto.
SYNOPSIS: Warren, a paranoid teenager goes with some friends, Brad, Shelley, and Barbara, to their town's haunted house on Halloween night. As they wait in line, Warren becomes increasingly uncomfortable with his surroundings. Little did these teens know that the infamous killer, John Louis Barker, is on the loose. What would have been a fun night suddenly turns sinister when Warren believes he is stuck in the haunted house to face Barker alone. Warren attempts to escape the maze, with his life and sanity intact.
Daniel Erickson won the Silver Award at the Houston International Film Festival for Scary Movie, and, shortly thereafter, the Austin-based filmmaker established himself as an accomplished director of Texas music videos. Erickson is currently developing feature-length projects while continuing to work on music video and commercial productions. His second feature, Eve's Necklace (2009), was the first-ever motion picture with an all-mannequin cast, and it won Best Feature at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival.
...The haunted house in Scary Movie is an architectural anomaly, its unassuming exterior unfolding the slow reveal of its various rooms, hallways and dungeons like the centerpiece of Mark Z. Danielewski's novel House of Leaves. The film's house (can you guess which Hitchcock film it references?) was a facade: each room was built and then deconstructed on a sound stage, thereby allowing the camera crew to move with ease inside the space while conveying the claustrophobia and horror which Erickson sought to impend on his protagonist.
The casting of a young Hawkes decades before his Academy Award nomination for Winter's Bone and his turns in The Perfect Storm and HBO's Deadwood, among dozens of other credits would be one of the film's defining achievements.
Scary Movie has been unjustly forgotten, a case that wasn't helped by the release of the 2000 comedy-horror send up with the same title. Erickson reveals that Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was initially set to be released with the title, but the young director and his team wrote a plea which the legendary horror director indulged.
Thankfully, the film is finding an audience and gathering clout as a must-see cult Halloween movie in some circles. Now viewers have a chance to see a vibrant, passionate talent on display and to witness a crazed performance by an actor who has gone on to have career-making performances in Deadwood (2004–2006) and Winter's Bone (2010) with still more to come. And if for nothing else, it's a ticket — no matter the month — to step back into the late evenings of October and to feel that brush of wind carrying something ominous and unknown on its breath... read more here.
