Drive-In Massacre
Unfortunately, the poster is deceiving and looks leagues cooler than the actual movie.
This is an early pseudo-slasher about a killer with a sword who stalks and kills visitors of a small California drive-in. But instead of focusing on the victims or the killer, we spend most of our time following around the detectives on the case as they follow leads. Which is actually a nice change in focus from later slashers. But the downside is the story is so thin that much of the film is padded out to ungodly lengths (including a pointless 10-minute long scene at the end) that the story can become tedious. Add in some crappy camera work and some awful sound and cheap effects and you have the perfect recipe for real life drive-in schlock. I guess, I mean. I don't know. I assume that's what they were going for, anyway, what with that corney ending and all. At least on the plus side, there were a couple of amusing scenes (including an apparent homage to The Town That Dreaded Sundown) and the acting was surprisingly decent. But other than that? Meh.