History Film / DriveInMassacre

%%* SweaterGirl: Several, despite it being summer.

Having seemingly fallen into public domain, the film (which has not been terribly well received, having only a few defenders) is available in a number of those crappy bargain bin horror collections, and can also be viewed for free on websites such as Website/{{Youtube}}.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Before the credits role, a fake PA announcement informs viewers that the killer is outside and that they should not panic, because the police are on the way. Obviously, this becomes less effective when the film is watched at home.

%%* NothingIsScarier: We don't see the condition of Austin's hacked up body.

* PeekABooCorpse: Germy's hacked up body is found in a storage room.

* ShadowDiscretionShot: Austin's death's occurs in the film booth, and the silhouette of it gets projected onto the drive-in screen.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "I didn't kill anybody! Look, I didn't do that! I just wanted to beat my meat!"

%%* DeathBySex: Almost every victim.

%%* WeaponOfChoice: A sword.

* AbandonedWarehouse: The mental patient takes his daughter to one.
* AllThereInTheScript: Kathy's name is only used in the credits.
* AssholeVictim: Austin.
* AutoErotica
* AxCrazy: The killer, and the mental patient.

* BaldOfEvil: Austin.
* BeardOfEvil: Austin.
* BigBad: The unnamed SerialKiller terrorizing the drive-in.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Featured prominently in the second death.
* UsefulNotes/{{California}}
* ChaseScene: Orville takes off when some potentially incriminating evidence (a blood-covered cloth) is found in his car. Turns out it was just from a dog he had hit.
* CoolSword

* CreditsGag: The effects were apparently done by the so-called Duke of Disguise.
* CrustyCaretaker: Germy.

* DeathBySex: Almost every victim.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The killer is a non-entity.
* DisguisedInDrag: The detectives stake out of the drive-in by disguising themselves as a couple... disturbing. Austin is the only one who fails to see through the disguise.
* DriveInTheater
* EveryoneIsASuspect
* EventTitle
* ExtremeOmnivore: Former carnival geek Germy.
* FanService: About two seconds of toplessness.

* FatBastard: The mental patient.
* FatIdiot: The detectives.

* GoodCopBadCop: "Well, you wanna be the good cop, or the bad cop?"
* {{Gorn}}
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* GrossUpCloseUp

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: David and Lori's dual death.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The second death.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: The mental patient.
* InSeriesNickname: Charlie Garmey, aka Germy.
* InstantDeathBullet: The mental patient's death.
* {{Jerkass}}: Austin.
* KnifeThrowingAct: One of Germy and Austin's old jobs.
* LackOfEmpathy: Austin hates everyone and everything.
* LastNameBasis: Germy's first name, Charlie, is only mentioned twice.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The mental patient chasing his daughter around the AbandonedWarehouse.
* LonersAreFreaks: Orville.
* MacheteMayhem: The mental patient wields one, and killed at least two people with it.

* {{Manchild}}: Germy.
* TheMistress: Lori.
* NoNameGiven: The second victim, and the mental patient and his daughter.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever was in Orville's rap sheet.
* NothingIsScarier: We don't see the condition of Austin's hacked up body.
* OffWithHisHead: Alan and Kathy's deaths.
* PaperThinDisguise: Orville's peeping tom attire consists of nothing but a hat. This is commented on by the detectives.

* ThePeepingTom: Orville.
* PoliceAreUseless: And there's apparently only about four of them.
* PornStache: The police psychologist.
* PornStash: Orville makes no attempt to hide his, actually pasting nude pictures onto his walls, and leaving pornos on the coffee table.
* TheProfiler: The police psychologist.
* PublicDomainFeatureFilms
* SerialKiller
* TheSeventies
* SeventiesHair

* SlashedThroat: Orville's death.
* TheStakeout
* SweaterGirl: Several, despite it being summer.
* TheUnreveal
* TheUnsolvedMystery
* ThoseTwoGuys: Detectives Leary and Koch.

* WeaponOfChoice: A sword.
* TheWestern: This appears to be the only genre of film shown at the drive-in.

* TheBadGuyWins[=/=]DownerEnding: The killer (who is never identified, or even glimpsed) gets away, and commits a swath of murders across the US, a different drive-in in each state.

* HollywoodNight: Averted.

* UnfortunateName: Koch, which sounds suspiciously like cock.

* YourCheatingHeart: David.

An InNameOnly, comedy horror remake was announced in 2011; it has yet to be released as of 2016.

* RealLifeRelative: A father and daughter are played by... a father and daughter.

'''''Drive-In Massacre''''' is a SlasherMovie released in 1977.

An InNameOnly, comedy horror remake was announced in 2011.

'''''Drive In Massacre''''' is a SlasherMovie released in 1977.

-> ''You'll pay to get in, and pray to get out.''

* Austin Johnson, the assholish and constantly complaining loudmouth manager of the drive-in, left in charge of almost everything while the owner is away on vacation in Hawaii.

* {{Drive-In Theater}}

* {{California}}

* {{Padding}}: The film suffers pretty badly from it, the worst instance being a long and pointless scene where Germy attends a carnival.

'''''Drive In Massacre''''' is a SlasherFilm released in 1977.

[[caption-width-right:284:[[DidNotDoTheResearch Tenth]], actually.]]

Having seemingly fallen into public domain, the film (which has not been terribly well received, having only a few defenders) is available in a number of those crappy bargain bin horror collections, and can also be viewed for free on websites such as {{Youtube}}.

* TheSeventies

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "I didn't kill anybody! Look, I didn't do that! I just wanted to beat my meat!"

* TheBadGuyWins[=/=]DponerEnding: The killer (who is never identified, or even glimpsed) gets away, and commits a swath of murders across the US, a different drive-in in each state.

* TheBadGuyWins: The killer (who is never identified, or even glimpsed) gets away, and commits a swath of murders across the US, a different drive-in in each state.

* DriveInTheater