Favorite drive-in movies

Favorite drive-in movies

Favorite drive-in movies. The first drive-in movie theater opened 78 years ago today in an era when cars symbolized opportunity. To celebrate the birthday of the drive-in, let's take a look at the best of drive-in fare, from classic B-movies and exploitation films to contemporary blockbusters and sing-alongs.


'Attack of the Crab Monsters'
Release Date: Feb. 10, 1957

Cast: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson

Plot: Directed by a B-movie legend, this drive-in classic tells the tale of a group of nuclear scientists who are attacked by gigantic, brain-eating crabs on an ever-shrinking island.

'Plan 9 from Outer Space'
Release Date: July 22, 1959

Cast: Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Bela Lugosi.
Directed by Ed Wood.

Plot: Aliens transform the earth's dead into zombies and blood-sucking creatures to prevent humans from creating a solar-powered bomb.

'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'
Release Date: Aug. 6, 1965

Cast: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams

Plot: Three money-hungry strippers murder a young man and take his girlfriend hostage before attempting to seduce an old man and his sons into handing over their hidden fortune.

'Blazing Saddles'
Release Date: Feb. 7, 1974

Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens.

Plot: A corrupt politician's attempt to take over a frontier town and build a railroad backfires after the townspeople end up supporting the black sheriff he has appointed The satirical story is considered the sixth best comedy of all time, according to this film organization.

'Jaws'
Release Date: June 20, 1975

Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss.

Plot: The police chief of a small island is forced to take action after a gigantic shark terrorizes the community.

'Grease'
Release Date: June 16, 1978

Cast: Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta, Stockard Channing.

Plot: A summer romance gets more serious when the two lovebirds discover they're attending the same high school. Her friends and his friends experience the highs and lows of senior year as they sing and dance their way to graduation.

'The Thing'
Release Date: June 25, 1982

Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David.

Plot: In a remake of the 1951 classic, scientists in an Antarctic research lab are confronted by a killer alien that takes the shape of its victims.

'Troll 2'
Release Date: Oct. 12, 1990

Cast: Michael Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey

Plot: A family vacation goes awry after vegetarian trolls invade the town. With a Rotten Tomatoes rank of zero percent, this film is often considered the worst movie of all time.

'Twister'
Release Date: May 10, 1996

Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes.

Plot: A divorce gets sidetracked when a TV weatherman, his estranged wife and his girlfriend get caught up in a series of tornadoes while trying to place a measuring device into the middle of the violent storms.

'Men in Black'
Release Date: July 2, 1997

Cast: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino.

Plot: In a story based on this famous comic book, two top-secret government agents with very different personalities work together to protect the earth from an alien invasion.

'Cars'
Release Date: June 8, 2006

Cast: Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman.

Plot: On his way to a tiebreaking race in L.A., a race car named Lightning McQueen damages the road in a small, forgotten town. Forced to repair the road, Lightning McQueen learns what it really means to be a winner.

'Hairspray'
Release Date: July 20, 2007

Cast: John Travolta Nikki Blonsky Queen Latifah.

Plot: A bubbly teenager teaches the people of this Maryland city how to accept racial integration with the help of a TV dance show.

'Mamma Mia'
Release Date: July 3, 2008

Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan.

Plot: Searching for her father, a bride-to-be invites three of her mother's ex-flings to her wedding in an exotic locale. Amid the humor, romance and drama, the colorful cast members belt out the songs by this Swedish band to express their feelings.

'Tropic Thunder'
Release Date: Aug. 13, 2008

Cast: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.

Plot: A group of actors confuse fiction with reality after they are captured by a real-life guerrilla gang in this country while filming a war movie.

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