This is a five part independent anthology movie with a wraparound story featuring The Projectionist (Luis Negron) a dead Drive-In owner who presents each short. The first is a mundane torture porn story called "Pig" featuring a woman (Kalaora) who was raped by a frat boy (Matt Catanzano). She has managed to glue his naked body to the bottom of his own tub and threatens him by turning on the water. This one gets a little bloody but the torture porn is tired and this gets this feature off to a poor start. "The Closet" is a somewhat humorous tale of Jamie (Chris Fidler) a boy who loves Sci-Fi even though everyone in his family makes fun of him for it. Lucky for Jamie there is a real monster in his closet which he feeds his family members too one by one. The funny premise will get you to smile, but the bad acting and cheap closet monster won't. Still it's bearable and you can have fun with it. The third story is by far the highlight of this anthology called "Fall Apart". Dr. Patrick Mazursky (Tish) still makes house calls, and after inspecting an elderly man who has strange sores growing on his body, comes down with the same problem hours later. The skin begins to peel off his body and the horrific transformation to the end is truly terrifying. With a David Cronenberg feel to the story and first class gore effects not to mention a great lead performance from Larry J. Tish, this segment is great! This is followed up with another good story in "The Meat Man". Two kids begin to suspect their father (Donahue) may be the cannibalistic madman that has been prowling their neighborhood. Fun with a good pace and a neat twist at the end, it plays like an episode of "Tales from the Darkside". Hoping the final story "The Watcher" will bring this Indie film home in style, we are unfortunately stuck with a weak story of 4 college friends camping and being stalked by a psycho. Most of this short had audio added later and the short was shot in too many full shots. With no suspense or creative kills, this segment brings this uneven anthology movie to a close. Writer/Director Michael Neel (Co-writing with Greg Ansin) certainly gives this independent movie energy and there are some good horror elements at work here. The writing is really what needed more balance. These guys tried to make this as good as they could and in two of the segments they achieved it.
Review of Drive-in Horrorshow
