I remember seeing ads for it back in the 80s and thinking it looked a little like the road warrior but set in a drivein theater. Dead end drivein god bless australian cinema in the 1980s and 90s. His latest film is drive hard, a quirky action comedy with john cusack and thomas jane. When ordinary working stiff jimmy crabs ned manning and his voluptuous girlfriend carmen natalie mccurry are accidentally trapped in the theater, they discover a secret. The idea is to get unemployed and undesirables out of the way until they can figure out what to do with them. Check out this behind the scenes look at bad boys for life read more. Rent dead end drivein 1986 on dvd and bluray netflix. In space, the man from hong kong and turkey shoot it is 20 minutes into the future in 1995 and australia has stagnated to a state roughly akin to that in the first mad max movie, with dingy slums covered in graffiti and gangs of marauding car boys scraping. The whole entire drive down that quiet road after the crash was all a nightmare that marion had and the rest of her family was already dead. In the near future, drivein theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and unemployed.
Dead end drive in original trailer brian trenchardsmith, 1986 arrow video. I see this movie as almost a prequel to mad max and other dystopian movies, as it sets the tone of a world on the brink of anarchy. Dead end drivein is a political film dressed up or down as. Dead end drivein is a terrific low budget action film from australia. Deadend drivein original trailer brian trenchardsmith, 1986. The inmates, many of whom sport punk fashion, are placated with a steady diet of junk food, new wave music, drugs, and exploitation films. In the future, a health nut and his tagalong girlfriend become trapped in a drivein theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths, who are placated with new wave music, junk food, drugs, exploitation movies, and racism. To the stars, michael shannon in the quarry, earth day movies and more. Turkey shoot, bmx bandits and dystopian cult classic deadend drivein. See the full list of dead end road cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. The easiest way to listen to podcasts on your iphone, ipad, android, pc, smart. He has also made over 100 trailers ranging from hammer horrors to australian films of the 70. In the 1950s, there were around 4,000 drivein theaters around the united states.
Was the driver leaving the town at the end of drive 2011. Reality show contestant kimberly is driving through the west virginia back country searching for the location of her next project. Ending spoiler for dead end 2003, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. Once the characters reach the drivein, very little happens and the scenes become various montages that serve very little purpose.
Dead end driveins production design may be commendable, but it does seriously lack in terms of narrative. Watch dead end drivein now on your favorite device. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing deadend drive in near you. Ozploitation classic and 1980s new world pictures cult classic, brian trenchardsmiths dead end drivein comes to bluray with the special edition treatment from arrow video usa. Right from the first shot, you know that youre in for something special. But just like peace, love, and american cars, driveins began to decline around the early 1970s. Director brian trenchardsmith takes the notion of the drive in theater as a haven for nostalgic escapism and turns it on its head, imagining the park as a concentration camp for the dregs of. She stops to check on him, but the teenager is revealed to be brother, a cannibal, who bites her lips off. But you know that things are serious when a drivein theater is turned into a highsecurity prison. Welcome to the distant future, where a drive in theater has turned into a highsecurity prison. The first, say, fifteen to twenty minutes of the film are in fact entirely pointless since they revolve on crabs family situation which is completely irrelevant. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. His cult hits include the man from hong kong, turkey shoot, bmx bandits, stunt rock, dead end drive in, the siege of firebase gloria.
She attempts to escape, but runs into threefinger, who splits her in half vertically with an axe. Rent dead end drivein 1986 starring ned manning and natalie mccurry on dvd and bluray. Dead end drivein was created in january of 2010 with the purpose to voice an opinion on horror entertainment. Enjoy a rich lineup of tv shows and movies included with your prime membership. Internet movie poster awards one of the largest collections of movie poster images online. Dead end drivein on dvd 01218596 from starz anchor bay. Hosts brandon bennett and moe porne plumb the depths of their cinematic memories to rediscover some of their favorite films and maybe find a few new ones along the way. I think its safe to make the assumption that he lives. Dead end drivein is a 1986 australian b actionscifi film directed by brian trenchardsmith who also did bmx bandits, leprechaun 4. Brian trenchardsmiths dystopian film set at a drivein cinema cum concentration camp was one of ozploitations most compelling productions. Dead end drivein has been ranked 1962 times, wins 40. Dead end drivein is a 1986 australian dystopian action film about a teenage couple trapped in a drivein theatre which is really a concentration camp for societal rejects. Today, there are only about 300 left, and its not like we can put them through some sort of captive breeding program or anything. Teenage lovers ned manning, natalie mccurry become trapped in a drivein, prisoners of authority in the 1990s.
If you like dead end drivein you are looking for bleak, serious and futuristic movies about with surrealism, tow truck, electric fence, concentration camp, prison, apocalypse and survival themes of action, drama and horror genre shot in australia. Crabs and his girlfriend carmen are put into the camp and all crabs wants to do is escape. The latest arrival is not willing to accept this fate and battles to. Listen to dead end drivein episodes free, on demand. The fact that all the people had australian accents probably contributed to the mad max comparisons in my mind. Dead end drivein 1986 rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
Welcome to the distant future, where a drivein theater has turned into a highsecurity prison. On his way to his inlaws with his family, frank harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. A couple attempt to escape from this pop culture hell. Deadend drivein original trailer brian trenchardsmith. New from arrow video is the bluray release of dead end drivein, a true cult classic and one of the best of the ozploitation subgenre that mixes elements of mad max, the cars that ate paris, australian car culture, and crazy youth subcultures. Dead end drivein r 1h 32min action, drama, horror 22 august 1986 usa in the future, a health nut and his tagalong girlfriend become trapped in a drivein theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths, who are placated with new wave music, junk food, drugs, exploitation movies, and racism. Frank, asleep, decides to drive through an unknown shortcut using a secondary road, where the weirdest things happen with his family and him. Its bad enough that nuclear accidents, economic collapse and global riots have put the entire world into a state of chaos. In the near future the government has set up secret internment camps disguised as drive in movie theatres. Natalie mccurry sitting in a car at a drivein theater while it rains, lowering her lingerie to expose her breasts with gold painted nipples. Watch latest movies and tv shows for free on lookmovie. Dead end is a 2003 french horror film written and directed by jeanbaptiste andrea and fabrice canepa.
The setting a drivein cinema is both unconventional and perfectly fitting given trenchardsmiths cult movie oeuvre. Watch dead end drivein 1986 full movie free online. There are numerous examples of excellent australian movies in the last two decades, too, but i think it was the 80s or, at the very least, when mad max broke out in 1979 that us audiences began to notice that australia had a. But she doesnt know this, it seems like they are still alive and her dream seems so real to her. It was a perfect way to end the film, and i think it was probably one of the smoothest links i have seen between a prequel and sequel ever in my history of watching films. The prisoners dont really care to escape because they are fed and they have a place to live which is, in most cases, probably better than the outside. We then see her through the car window as she has sex with a guy, showing her butt and the side of her breast while she rides him, stopping when the car leans over. Dead end drivein rewatched politics dressed up as frothy. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model sharon tate, who has just married the. It tells the story of a dysfunctional family who find themselves on a neverending road in the middle of a forest during a routine drive on christmas eve.
The movie builds up to a climatic end by briefly plunging the viewer into deliberate ambiguity around whether hes still alive or not. One can find traces of some of the locales in dead end in that area, however, the pier and tenements are gone and the dead end is now part of sutton. Unemployment and crime is rampant so the government decides to do something about the unruly population. The governments new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. No longer just a place to watch trashy movies and make out, these outdoor. Buy your ticket, visit the snack bar and pull your car around for the dead end drivein. Did the driver leave the town or went to meet irene at the end. Staring natalie mccurry, ned manning and peter whitford. Imp awards 1986 movie poster gallery dead end drivein xlg image. The film comes out this tuesday on dvd and bluray, and i assure you that i will be picking it up. The premise of dead end drivein is a bit goofy but also intriguing. With ned manning, natalie mccurry, peter whitford, wilbur wilde.
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