Dead City Drive-In

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THE LOVE WITCH | DEATH PROOF | PSYCHO BEACH PARTY With Guest Programmer KATIE CASTONGUAY Forget bonfires, s’mores, and mosquito bites, and plant that severed tongue firmly in your cheek as Dead City Drive-In goes to camp! Join Brandon, Chris and special guest programmer, Katie Castonguay as they turn up the irony to 11 and delve into the campiest trio of movies, guaranteed to make John Waters’ mus...

In desperate need of a midseason hiatus, Brandon and Chris attempt to flee the Drive-In only to be swallowed whole by a horrifying sea beast! Inside the leviathan’s digestive tract, the duo decide to program a JAWS themed octo-feature– pairing the original classic and its three increasingly absurd sequels with appropriate companion flicks! No piranhas or tentacles or orcas here– we’re steering cle...

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE | MEET THE FEEBLES | GHOULIES 2 With Guest Programmer MATTHEW YOVINO Saturday mornings sure aren’t what they used to be! Long gone are the days of waking up early to shove our faces full of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, eyes glued to the glowing screen in front of us, staring into a flickering void of programming featuring adults with their hands shoved up the asses...

Brandon and Chris are cozying up in their Plymouth Fury for some gut-munchin’ Italian zombie action in a Special Commentary Episode of Lucio Fulci’s first masterpiece: ZOMBIE (aka Zombi 2 aka Zombie Flesh Eaters aka The Movie Where A Zombie Fights A Damn Tiger Shark for Real )! Watch along as we marvel at exotic, Caribbean locations plagued by the festering undead! Hear us squeal with high-pitched...

DEATH RACE 2000 | THE RUNNING MAN | ROBOT JOX With Guest Programmer MICHAEL MARTZ Who loves you and who do you love? Well, if you’re anything like Brandon & Chris, you love gameshows set in a post-apocalyptic America where the winner gets the adoration of the remnants of humanity and the loser gets straight-up crushed by a giant robot! Special Guest Programmer Michael Martz stops by to press h...

THE BAD SEED | THE CHILDREN | VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED With Guest Programmer VICTORIA TRIBBLE So your daughter just drowned a little boy in the pond, is that really any reason to send ‘em to their room? We’re not talking prison time and electric chairs, are we? Besides, who could kill a child? It’s a warped query in the annals of psychotronic cinema, and luckily Brandon & Chris are joined by Gues...

SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS THE MONSTERS | THE CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN | ALUCARDA | DON’T PANIC | FROM DUSK TILL DAWN The doors of Dead City Drive-In are officially open for a fourth season of slime-splattered screens and screams! After downing a bottle of irradiated Mezcal, Brandon and Chris decide to program a celebracion of Mexican genre cinema, Dead City style! It’s a south-of-the-border, 5-FILM...

Attention Dead City Denizens! We’ve officially launched the DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN PATREON! Head over to patreon.com/deadcitydrivein and get ready for whole new levels of Drive-In depravity! What kind of aural assault can your earholes expect to encounter if you become an official patron? Take a listen to this little sound-splat to find out, or just get your mutant ass over to patreon.com/deadcitydriv...

Surprise! Brandon & Chris take a few minutes to give all you mutants and maniacs a little hint on what's in store for the next season of Dead City Drive-In, including an official release date and a few extra little surprises that just couldn't wait! Mark your calendars-- SEASON 4 is comin' in hot and sooner than you'd think! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

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 digging through the cinematic wasteland in search of the best 1986 has to offer. 40 films are up for contention: bimbo-blasting killbots, vomit-spewing Jeff Goldblums and frog-chomping Oscar winners all...

David Warner | Donald Pleasence | Dick Miller Inspired by graffiti scrawled in the stalls of the Dead City bathroom, Brandon & Chris get the wild idea to introduce their own Hall of Slime– a place for the gone (but not for-rotten) legends of genre cinema to be remembered forever. It’s a special episode that honors and celebrates the roles of some of our very favorite character actors and the r...

LEVIATHAN | BLOOD VESSEL | DEEP BLUE SEA With Guest Programmer NIGEL SIKES Ahoy, matey! Our anchor’s aweigh and we’ve set sail, full speed ahead for a high seas adventure! Batten down your hatches and join Brandon & Chris as they navigate above and below the raging ocean waves in search of the perfect waterlogged double-feature. Guest Programmer Nigel Sikes climbs aboard to toss his own life p...

I, Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, command you… to get ready for another Dead City Drive-In Commentary Special with Brandon & Chris! We’re coating this spooky sequel with our voices like slime blowers to Lady Liberty! Watch along with us as we deep dive into a childhood classic. We’re talking genocidal madmen living inside magic paintings, mood slime with a kink for ver...

TREMORS | THEM! | CRITTERS With Guest Programmer JACK HOLLOWAY Space hedgehogs with teeth! Irradiated, giant, mutant ants! Underground slugs with snake mouths! It’s a tough life for a horror movie fan, mostly because when it comes to choosing which monster we wanna snuggle up with on our car’s bench seat, we can’t pick just one! Lucky for us, Guest Programmer Jack Holloway is here to sneak his fav...

THE BROOD | XTRO | ALTERED STATES With Guest Programmer ROBB LEE Family dynamics can be a bit tricky– especially if Mom’s a crazy New Age nutbag who prefers to lick the afterbirth from freshly hatched brood babies rather than spend time with her familial unit. And where do you go with the conversation after you catch Dad slurping up snake eggs or devolving into a caveman who breaks into zoos to ge...

PRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST is out now everywhere, but you can check out the Premiere Episode right this very here! Brandon Windish and frequent DCDI guest programmer Jack Holloway are diving deep into the weirdest, grossest, surrealist, most insane forgotten anthology series of all time: FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES! New episodes land every other Tuesday, so make sure you subs...

Hop in! We’re going for a ride in our ‘58 Plymouth Fury for a Drive-In screening of one of our favorite sequels of all time: Don Coscarelli’s PHANTASM II! Watch along as Brandon & Chris talk all over the studio-financed, stealth remake of the original fever-dream masterpiece. It’s 97 minutes of spacegates, chainsaw fights and silver spheres that’ll get you more pumped up than a sawed-off quad-...

Do you love Freddy Krueger? Well, our own, Brandon Windish sure does and, guess what? He has a new show to work out his feelings! DCDI is proud to present our first ever sistercast... PRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST! Joined by co-host (and frequent DCDI guest programmer) Jack Holloway, these two lifelong Fred-heads are diving deep into the weirdest, grossest, surrealist, most i...

NASHVILLE GIRL | HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD | HARDCORE With Guest Programmer WILL ERRICKSON There’s a bit of wanderlust amblin’ through the Drive-In, so Brandon & Chris enlist the help of guest programmer Will Errickson (co-author of the incredible Paperbacks From Hell and steward of the Too Much Horror Fiction Blog) to travel down those lonesome, dusty roads in hot pursuit of success and stardom. We...

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...

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 treat...

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 a...

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! Stoppin...

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...