History Film / DeadEndDriveIn

* PunchClockVillain: Thompson the theater manager is just doing his job and doesn't seem to have any malice toward the prisoners.

It is TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in 1995 and Australia has stagnated to a state roughly akin to that in the first ''Film/MadMax1'' movie, with dingy slums covered in graffiti and gangs of marauding "car boys" scraping by via stealing car parts. Crabs (Ned Manning) is a teenager who is an avid jogger. He convinces his older brother Frank to lend him his '56 Chevy for a date with his girlfriend Carmen (Natalie [=McCurry=]). The two go to a DriveInTheater where they're playing Brian Trenchard-Smith's own other movies, and start to make out... only for the car's wheels to get stolen. The theater's attendant refuses to do anything until morning, so the two are forced to stay at the drive-in overnight. Come said morning, Crabs finds the place alive and resembling a ghetto. He goes to the attendant, only to be informed that he, Carmen and 190 more of society's teen delinquents are to be imprisoned at the drive-in by the government until further notice. Whereas all the other kids, including Carmen herself, seem all too content to remain at the drive-in forever placated by the limitless supply of junk food and violent movies, Crabs ain't, and he starts scheming to escape...

* AffablyEvil: Tommo the cinema manager, who seems to have been forced into the situation as much as the inmates are and tries to see himself as a benevolent father-figure to them.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Crabs doesn't manage to fit the fuel filler cap back on the police van after he syphons petrol from it. This leads to it catching fire during the climactic chase scene]].

* DivideAndConquer: The government dump a large number of Asian immigrants in the camp, trusting correctly that most of the prisoners will take out their resentment on them.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The prisoners' arguments for opposing the arrival of new Asian prisoners can just as easily pass for any real world ultra-right wing anti-immigration speech.

* HopeSpot: Crabs manages to get two new Chevrolet wheels from one of the wrecks brought in to accomodate a new group of detainees, and to syphon petrol from a police van, but then discovers that the whole engine has been removed from his car.

* RampJump: At the climax of the film. It's been claimed that the 162 feet achieved was the longest ever car jump successfully done for a film at the time.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/TurkeyShoot''. Both are futuristic prison films from the same director.

* VanityLicensePlate: Frank's Chevy has FRANK 1 and his tow-truck FRANK 2. Some of the Carboys' cars also have vanity plates.

* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: [[spoiler:Averted when the cop fires off a wild shot while dying after being shot by Crabs, and shoots Tommo dead.]]

It is TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in 1995 and Australia has stagnated to a state roughly akin to that in the first ''Film/MadMax'' movie, with dingy slums covered in graffiti and gangs of marauding "car boys" scraping by via stealing car parts. Crabs (Ned Manning) is a teenager who is an avid jogger. He convinces his older brother Frank to lend him his '56 Chevy for a date with his girlfriend Carmen (Natalie [=McCurry=]). The two go to a DriveInTheater where they're playing Brian Trenchard-Smith's own other movies, and start to make out... only for the car's wheels to get stolen. The theater's attendant refuses to do anything until morning, so the two are forced to stay at the drive-in overnight. Come said morning, Crabs finds the place alive and resembling a ghetto. He goes to the attendant, only to be informed that he, Carmen and 190 more of society's teen delinquents are to be imprisoned at the drive-in by the government until further notice. Whereas all the other kids, including Carmen herself, seem all too content to remain at the drive-in forever placated by the limitless supply of junk food and violent movies, Crabs ain't, and he starts scheming to escape...

''Dead End Drive-In'' is a 1986 Australian [[BMovie B]] action/sci-fi film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (who also did ''Film/BMXBandits'', ''Film/Leprechaun4InSpace'', ''The Man From Hong Kong'' and ''Film/TurkeyShoot'').

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Crabs manages to escape the prison, but the outside world is still a hellhole, and possibly getting worse. Not to mention that he'll probably be blamed for killing Tommo and the three cops.]]

* CarFu

* RampJump: At the climax of the film. It's been claimed that the 162 feet achieved in terms of distance was the longest ever car jump successfully done for a film.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film takes place in 1991.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer reveals [[spoiler:Crabs jumping out of the cinema]].

* LadyNotAppearingInThisFilm: Just about every piece of publicity or retrospective article you see about the film shows a woman who is topless apart from a metal bra with huge cow horns over her breasts. She's an extra who is never the main focus of a shot.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer and publicity for the film promoted it as an action movie in the tradition of ''Film/MadMax''. It's much more of a drama piece with relatively infrequent action scenes, and seems like, if anything, a punk remake of ''Series/ThePrisoner1969''.

* EightiesHair

* ChekhovsGun: [[Crabs doesn't manage to fit the fuel filler cap back on the police fan after he syphons petrol from it. This leads to it catching fire during the climactic chase scene]].

It is TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture and Australia has stagnated to a state roughly akin to that in the first ''Film/MadMax'' movie, with dingy slums covered in graffiti and gangs of marauding "car boys" scraping by via stealing car parts. Crabs (Ned Manning) is a teenager who is an avid jogger. He convinces his older brother Frank to lend him his '56 Chevy for a date with his girlfriend Carmen (Natalie [=McCurry=]). The two go to a DriveInTheater where they're playing Brian Trenchard-Smith's own other movies, and start to make out... only for the car's wheels to get stolen. The theater's attendant refuses to do anything until morning, so the two are forced to stay at the drive-in overnight. Come said morning, Crabs finds the place alive and resembling a ghetto. He goes to the attendant, only to be informed that he, Carmen and 190 more of society's teen delinquents are to be imprisoned at the drive-in by the government until further notice. Whereas all the other kids, including Carmen herself, seem all too content to remain at the drive-in forever placated by the limitless supply of junk food and violent movies, Crabs ain't, and he starts scheming to escape...

* AffablyEvil: The theater attendant.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Crabs manages to escape the prison, but the outside world is still a hellhole, and possibly getting worse]].

* TheQuincyPunk

* ThoseWackyNazis: The gang in the drive-in are Neo-Nazis and recruit other prisoners to join them.

'''''Dead End Drive-In''''' is a 1986 Australian [[BMovie B]] action/sci-fi film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (who also did ''Film/BMXBandits'', ''Film/Leprechaun4InSpace'', ''The Man From Hong Kong'' and ''Film/TurkeyShoot'').

!!''DeadEndDriveIn'' provides examples of:

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Crabs manages to escape the prison, but the outside world is still a hellhole, and possibly getting worse]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''TurkeyShoot''. Both are futuristic prison films from the same director.

'''''Dead End Drive-In''''' is a 1986 Australian [[BMovie B]] action/sci-fi film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (who also did ''BMXBandits'', ''Leprechaun 4'', ''The Man From Hong Kong'' and ''TurkeyShoot'').

It is TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture and Australia has stagnated to a state roughly akin to that in the first ''MadMax'' movie, with dingy slums covered in graffiti and gangs of marauding "car boys" scraping by via stealing car parts. Crabs (Ned Manning) is a teenager who is an avid jogger. He convinces his older brother Frank to lend him his '56 Chevy for a date with his girlfriend Carmen (Natalie [=McCurry=]). The two go to a DriveInTheater where they're playing Brian Trenchard-Smith's own other movies, and start to make out... only for the car's wheels to get stolen. The theater's attendant refuses to do anything until morning, so the two are forced to stay at the drive-in overnight. Come said morning, Crabs finds the place alive and resembling a ghetto. He goes to the attendant, only to be informed that he, Carmen and 190 more of society's teen delinquents are to be imprisoned at the drive-in by the government until further notice. Whereas all the other kids, including Carmen herself, seem all too content to remain at the drive-in forever placated by the limitless supply of junk food and violent movies, Crabs ain't, and he starts scheming to escape...

* EightiesHair

It is TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture and Australia has stagnated to a state roughly akin to that in the first ''MadMax'' movie, with dingy slums covered in graffiti and gangs of marauding "car boys" scraping by via stealing car parts. Crabs (Ned Manning) is a teenager who is an avid jogger. He convinces his older brother Frank to lend him his '56 Chevy for a date with his girlfriend Carmen (Natalie [=McCurry=]). The two go to a {{drive-in theater}} where they're playing Brian Trenchard-Smith's own other movies, and start to make out... only for the car's wheels to get stolen. The theater's attendant refuses to do anything until morning, so the two are forced to stay at the drive-in overnight. Come said morning, Crabs finds the place alive and resembling a ghetto. He goes to the attendant, only to be informed that he, Carmen and 190 more of society's teen delinquents are to be imprisoned at the drive-in by the government until further notice. Whereas all the other kids, including Carmen herself, seem all too content to remain at the drive-in forever placated by the limitless supply of junk food and violent movies, Crabs ain't, and he starts scheming to escape...

* {{Drive-In Theater}}: Obviously.