Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

phanthinga Look at the plot of Dead End Drive-In you pretty much know what you got into is a 80s dystopian movie but to my surprise the movie actually far more deep and somehow go beyond than just a cheesy b-movie.The characters is your typical cliché rebel teenagers so the dialogue not that easy to hear(no offense to Aussie people btw) or interesting but what catch my eyes the most is the world around them and how it work is fascinating to me.It may come out a little bit boring to watch cause the majority of the runtime there nothing really happens so I only recommend this movie to hardcore b-movie fan

thelastblogontheleft This is just a fun sort of Australian knockoff of Mad Max meets Burning Man — and don't get me wrong, that description is meant to entice you, not deter you!The film is set in the future but still with that awesome 80's aesthetic — neon, spiked hair, and ripped fishnets every-freaking-where. The economy has collapsed, crime is rampant, and cars are what everyone's after. The government has created a chain of drive-in movie theaters that are to serve as a sort of concentration camp for the young, reckless youth of society — surrounded by tall, electrified fences and only accessible by security roads (or "s-roads") that under no circumstances allow walking. Crabs (Ned Manning) and his girlfriend, Carmen (Natalie McCurry) wind up there on a date night and soon realize they aren't leaving any time soon.The whole atmosphere of the movie is amazing. It's like an hour and a half of pure eye candy. It's got everything you'd want or need in a post-apocalyptic 80's film — teased hair, unexplained fog, graffiti on every surface, random fires burning for no apparent reason. Great music, too. And Manning is sort of David Duchovny-esque with an Australian accent (which is totally okay with me).Admittedly, while the plot is a cool one, it kind of fizzles in the middle chunk of the movie. Like Crabs just keeps expressing how he's just going to fix his brother's car and they'll be outta there, and Carmen keeps being like "meh" about it… and then nothing happens. Rinse and repeat. It's like they had this awesome idea but somewhere in the middle they were like, errr, what do we do with this now? How do we fill this time?Then, as if in an effort to answer that question, a big bus full of Asian prisoners arrive, and suddenly the group takes this super racist turn, with Crabs seemingly being the only one who is like, dude, what are y'all so angry about? "They're not the enemy — they're prisoners, just like us."But then we get to Crabs really ramping up for his escape, which is pretty exciting. All of the other prisoners are happy to exist as they are — the whole movie really is a sad "allegory for the junk values of the eighties, which our hero sees as a prison", as director Brian Trenchard-Smith refers to it. The others, including Carmen, don't believe the world has anything to offer them. At the drive-in they are sort of on their own misfit island… they're among people who feel the same as they do, and they aren't judged or looked down on. But Crabs has a desire to make his life more meaningful. His escape is a pretty amazing climax to the movie — literally flying off of a ramp through the drive-in sign. It's a pretty killer ending, and the most expensive stunt of the whole movie, costing them around $75,000 (insane considering the movie only grossed $68,000).Not quite a masterpiece by any means, but definitely a fun adventure.

Der_Schnibbler It's the future. Economy is bad, unemployment is up. Crime waves spread, government clamps down. Every place looks like downtown L.A. One day a guy goes with his girlfriend to a drive-in theater and while they're having sex in the car, the wheels get stolen. He now has no way to drive home. But guess what? He can't call his brother, 'cause there's no phone. And he can't catch a bus or cab, 'cause there aren't any. And he can't walk home, 'cause walking on the highway is illegal. So they are, quite literally, stuck living in the open space of the drive-in, which conveniently allocates them blankets and $30 a week.It sounds interesting enough, assuming it was played seriously but it's not. The entire film is boring, silly, with no tension, no villains, no danger. It is basically harmless, cartoon-like fare. The protagonist--the only one in the place who doesn't look like an extravagantly decked out Ramones concert attendee--is apparently the only one who wants to "get out," while everyone else has sunk into complacency.Once they find out they're stuck there, the rest of the film is a pointless, meandering mess. The most bizarre thing, however, was when a bunch of freaks go from harmless, obnoxiously bad actors to um...suddenly being the leaders of a "white Australia" meeting. You see, the government (who has "secretly" turned drive-ins into concentration camps for undesirables) has now also started bringing in Asians and other foreigners. So, out of nowhere, with NO prior motive whatsoever, COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE, we see some innocuous little nerd who was only a peripheral character begin chanting against the "slopes," "rice eaters" and whatever else.The sudden twist not only fails miserably to create any kind of effect, but it's so DUMB that you don't know whether to laugh or puke. I just stared at the screen in amazement. Oh God, someone please cue in the irony, the irony!! They all had it "pretty good" there, living on the government dole before the "slopes" came. And what if the "rice eaters" go and "rape their women"? What is RETARDED about this entire needless plot twist is, firstly, that like so many buffoonish, imbecilic, dim-witted "white self hatred" narratives, it assumes Australians are somehow not entitled to desire to live in a country of their own. Whites wanting to pass their land to their children instead of having it systematically squandered by racial and cultural aliens (no matter how "nice" or well meaning they may be) via state-sponsored genocide by demographics are somehow "r..." Oh, you know... the big bad "r"-word! Mind you, feeling guilt for wanting to live amongst your own kind is only evil when whites do it. But all incredulously asinine attempts at politicizing aside, why did the writers do this? My only guess is they suddenly realized how pointless their entire college project was and made a last dash attempt to lend the movie some sort of relevance by pandering to sheep sentiment, right around script page number 86 or so.

spoono01 Ridiculous '80s ripoff of Mad Max set in a drive in. Not in the least bit scary or adventurous...just dated. The story involves a guy who takes his date to a drive-in movie. His tires are stolen by some cops (?!), so they can't leave. Turns out the place is some sort of government...forget it. This movie stinks.