{"id":29048,"date":"2025-05-23T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=29048"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:43:49","slug":"dead-end-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/dead-end-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead End Drive-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Genre genius Brian Trenchard-Smith&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dead End Drive-In<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is rooted in an unexpected bit of realism: that by the 1980s, many drive-ins had to be used for purposes other than screening movies during the day, as the core business had long stopped paying the bills. Now, while rowdy drive-in melancholia was seemingly a Lone Star state of mind, what with the critical movie wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs and Joe Richard Lansdale&#8217;s novels <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drive-In: A &#8220;B&#8221; Movie with Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1988) &amp; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drive-In 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1989), it was Oz that provided us with this outrageous take on the politics of the day. 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