drive in massacre [1977]

i never seen it at the drive-ins.  i wish i had because this is the sort of grade-z crap that i love.  the most appropriate viewing venue is the drive-ins.  but alas no.  i watched but just the opening scene last night via the roku [if you don't know a roku is an online multi-channel streaming device for movies, tv and other content; netflix is one of the channels, so are amazon prime and hulu].  there are tons of cool channels for the horror/exploitation movie freak, you know, like me.

drive in massacre is a selection from the drive in movie channel, natch.  how could i pass it up?  but for the print was so muddy and the sound all kinds of crap the flick was barely watchable.  i got thru the first murder at the eponymous drive in -- ain't too bad in the special fx dept. -- and stopped the movie when the two detectives showed up to do their bestest to find the killer at the drive in.  will i go back to the movie?  who knows.  i've been such an old man this week.  my spirits are pretty good.  the weekends have been packed with activities including a lovely flight with friends in a small plane to a small town in the foothills, and going to the sac 6 drive ins with nick, b. and j.  but when i get home from work i want to veg out, read a bit, watch parts of movies and then crawl in to bed.

ah mr grumps!  as anna likes to call me.  the thing we all know about aging is that the future seems to narrow and the past gets wide.  but still, i've been waking with a smile on my mug because i know that nothing is permanent and age flows like a river.  you can fight the current or you can surf the stream.  sometimes you can do both.  at any rate a pic like this one not under review renews my hope in human invention.  the producer, writer and director got together and with little money and much work created a kind of cinema that only a connoiseur of crap can appreciate.  but the film was made and is available to all who want to experience it.  in all of our projects we should be so lucky.