Drive-In Massacre is a 1976 horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 movie starring Bruce Kimball (as Jake Barnes), Adam Lawrence, Douglas Gudbye, Verkina Flower, and written by George 'Buck' Flower (as Buck Flowers), John Goff, and Stu Segall (as Godfrey Daniels), and directed by Stu Segall, with make up effects credited to 'the Duke of Disguise'. Co-writer John Goff allegedly has a cameo in the film, but this is unconfirmed.

The title is shown as though it were written in letters on the marquee of an actual drive in theatre.

Plot

The plot begins on August 10 in a California drive-in theatre, and concerns a killer on the loose, with the victims beheaded with a large sword. Two policemen are sent to investigate the killings, and question the owner of the drive-in, his assistant and a local peeping Tom

Voyeurism

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, before going undercover to catch the killer themselves.

Release

The original video release also includes the theatrical trailer, in which the title is misspelled as Drive-In Masacre. This was retitled 'Drive-In Killer' for its West German release.

The film was released on DVD

DVD

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in the United States in 2007.