Dead City Drive-In

Dead City Drive-In

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Dead City Drive-In episodes

  • HAMMER SUCKS!

    HORROR OF DRACULA | LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES | CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE HUNTER

    With Guest Programmer JAIME GIANGRANDE-HOLCOM

    The Dead City Drive-In is officially open for the season and we’re plunging our stakes right into the satanic hearts of the most screen-loved monsters in cinema history: VAMPIRES! But not any of that monochrome monotony! Along with our returning guest programmer, Jaime Giangrande-Holcom, we’re talking blood splatter so vibrant you can feel it spray across the screen, heaving bosoms so lovingly lit, you’ll swear Caroline Munro is rubbing up against you! Pure terror in full color– it’s Hammer Time! You’re gonna need an extra pair of parachute pants if you wanna make it through a double-feature of the most terrifying bloodshot eyes in history!


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    2 hr 28 min
  • THE DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

    Eat your ass out, Paul Lynde! It’s Halloween Season and The Great Blumpkin demands a 24-HOUR MARATHON of horror-movie atrocity to celebrate the spirit of Samhain in appropriately spooky fashion. Brandon & Chris are scooping out 17 of their favorite seasonal flicks for the perfect All Hallow’s Evening! What cinematic heinousness will they unleash? Will there be as many tricks as there are treats? Well, it IS the SEASON 3 PREMIERE, everyone’s entitled to one little… aw, you know the rest. It’s a fun-sized, star-studded, holiday spectacular that’ll make you puke pumpkin spice into your latte with ice!


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    2 hr 20 min
  • YEAR IN REVIEW: 1985
    The Drive-In Gods have called a wrap and Dead City is closing its doors for the season. But before they go, Brandon & Chris have decided to program one last round of drive-in depravity! They’re going back to the gory days of Fango Pull-Out Posters and stop-motion puppets to curate a weekend long marathon of the best genre films 1985 has to offer! Face-ripping werewolves, naked space vampires and enchiladas from hell all vie for the top spot in a Season Finale that’ll put the fuck back in Chfuck Bronson! 

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    2 hr 30 min
  • 80s CANNON FILMS!
    THE DELTA FORCE | NINJA III: THE DOMINATION | BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
    with Guest Programmer: Ben Lovett

    It’s 2022, and what better way to greet the New Year than by blasting it into oblivion with a beard-operated missile launcher?! Sounds a little excessive? Well, nothing’s more excessive than the seemingly endless output brought to you by indie studio madmen Golan & Globus! Stopping by to help Brandon & Chris program an 80s CANNON FILMS double-feature explodathon is none other than film composer and musician, Ben Lovett (The Night House, The Beta Test)! Grab a can of V8 juice and sharpen your shurikens, ‘cause we’re talking Ninjas, Norris and Electric Boogaloos at the Dead City Drive-In!

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    2 hr 28 min
  • MISTLETOE & MAYHEM!
    DIAL CODE: SANTA CLAUS | GREMLINS | SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT
    with Guest Programmer: Jack Holloway

    Season’s Creepings! Whoa, did the Cryptkeeper show up and write this synopsis? No? Oh, you mean it’s been me the whole time? Sorry! Taking up valuable space here, ho ho ho! (Note to self: Santa didn’t show up either to finish that last sentence.) But he DOES show up to the Dead City Drive-In to help Brandon and Chris celebrate the most wonderful time of the year! Also joining the naughty list is special guest Jack Holloway to help spread some holiday fear! You better watch out! ‘Cause we’re programming a holiday-themed double feature filled to the brim with MISTLETOE & MAYHEM! Yule Love It! (Okay, that last sentence was Santa’s).

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    2 hr 42 min
  • UNIVERSAL'S FRANKENSTEIN SERIES RETROSPECTIVE!
    Happy Halloween! We’re celebrating Dead City Drive-In’s ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY with a special full-series retrospective on the granddaddy of all monsters: FRANKENSTEIN! Are Brandon and Chris up to the task of an 8-film marathon? Doesn’t matter! The Drive-In Gods make a surprise visit and quite literally put the fella’s balls in their court. Whose court? Wait, whose balls? We promise it all makes sense in this very special Halloween episode! We’re talkin’ BRIDES and SONS, GHOSTS and HOUSES, a coupla MEETS and all the classic Universal Monsters you can stuff into Lon Chaney Jr’s flask! Trick or treat, you mutants, you!

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    2 hr 23 min
  • THE BEST OF DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN!

    On a special episode of Dead City Drive-In, Brandon and Chris share a compilation of some of the best discussions and digressions from the last years worth of shows. From Blair Witch director, Dan Myrick being questioned by the Albany PD about the disappearance of his cast to Arthur C. Clarke getting a phone call from Richard Zanuck to write Jaws 2, to debates about the best cinematic Draculas! Rants abound and foul language flies! It’s a great starting place for newbie mutants, and worth the revisit if you’re a regular Dead City Denizen!


    1 hr 13 min
  • CREEPSHOW COMMENTARY!
    What better way to celebrate the oncoming spooky season than a warm, steaming cup of meteor shit?! How about some gushing throat roaches? Some celebratory head plop cake? Sounds like a screening of CREEPSHOW is in order! It’s a special full length commentary track for one of the Drive-In’s favorite anthology fright flicks of all time! 

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    2 hr 6 min
  • PULPED!
    REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS | THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION | BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
    with Guest Programmer: Dino Leto

    Acid rain has eaten away at the projection room roof, threatening the Drive-In’s very livelihood! Desperate and in need of a fast solution, Brandon mixes torn strips of old paper with Elmer’s glue to temporarily seal the cracks before the next storm comes through. That is, until Chris realizes the makeshift patching is actually rare and valuable golden age adventure magazines! Special guest Dino Leto stops by to help hand-juice the manly britches of Doc Savage, The Shadow and Buck Rogers for inspiration to program a new-wave double-bill of PULP HEROES!

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    2 hr 32 min
  • WIZARDS & WARLOCKS!
    CONAN THE BARBARIAN | WARLOCK | GHOULIES
    with Guest Programmer: Jack Holloway

    Get out your Grimoires, bitches! There’s about to be a Spell War at the Dead City Drive-In! After unwittingly conjuring an insolent wizard to help keep things tidy in the concession stand, Brandon and Chris find themselves on the wrong end of a particularly wicked scepter. Special guest, Jack Holloway returns to help program a WIZARDS & WARLOCKS themed double-feature that’ll make Dumbledore dookie in his denims!

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    2 hr 35 min

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Movie nerds Brandon Windish & Chris Holcom have somehow landed jobs as the heads of programming at the Dead City Drive-In. Held prisoner by their bosses, the Drive-In Gods, they are tasked with…