Drive-In Garage

Franz and Paul are reborn as they welcome back special guest Brandon and tear open Jonathan Glazer's 2004 chilly love letter BIRTH, starring Nicole Kidman!  Anna, still grieving the death of her husband, finds her reality rocked with the arrival of Sean, a ten-year-old boy.  Quickly, quietly, fantasy and doubt lay bare the shaky illusions holding things together.  Is love just a lie, made to make...

The Drive-In Garage serves up blood 'n' donuts as Franz and Paul interrogate the holiday spirit, closing the year out with William Friedkin's 1987 sanity slay ride RAMPAGE, starring Michael Biehn and Alex McArthur!  A series of brutal murders propel law-family-church-marriage-morals to their limits.  Therefore, while the merry bells keep ringing, deliberate with care and cover all the exits.  Peac...

Franz and Paul keep odd hours.  Time enough to enjoy one more bite for Halloween — Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 vampire western NEAR DARK, starring Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenny Wright, Adrian Pasdar, Jenette Goldstein, and Joshua Miller!  So, fire up the transfusionmobile and get those spurs a-janglin'.  We got til daybreak, and the night has its price. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com Instagram: d...

It's lights out for Franz and Paul when they get into Jack Sholder's 1982 super-autumnal siege slasher ALONE IN THE DARK, starring Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, and Jack Palance!  A local power outage leaves a psychiatrist and his family at the mercy of four of his new, most dangerous patients.  A healthy dose of midnight madness awaits at the Drive-In Garage!  Why don't you com...

From infinity they come — Meteors!  Franz and Paul rock out to the 1957 silica-based sci-fi breakdown THE MONOLITH MONSTERS!  Directed by John Sherwood, starring Grant Williams.  The small desert town of San Angelo finds itself suddenly overrun by jagged non-indigenous minerals that keep growing and multiplying, destroying everything and everyone in its path.  Another strange calling card from the...

Franz and Paul brush wings and spit leopards to reach the top of John Boorman's 1977 hypnagogic not-so-sequel EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, starring Linda Blair, Richard Burton, and Louise Fletcher!  Fall into a new dimension of healers and honeycombs, mind melds and strobe lights, ghost glass and good locusts.  Once in sync it'll be worth the climb. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com Instagram: driveinga...

The only thing Franz and Paul know better than fighting is running.  Pick a direction!  Together with returning guest Dan, they welcome October and go all smooth-tasty-sweet for Larry Cohen's 1985 merchandising monster THE STUFF, starring Michael Moriarty as industrial saboteur Mo Rutherford!  Will he get to the bottom of the mysterious oozing gooey treat before it gets to him?  Enough is never en...

Franz and Paul feel like they're gonna let loose.  Like something incredible is really gonna happen here.  This week: Martin Scorsese's 1985 absurdist all-nighter AFTER HOURS, starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, and a cast of real characters!  A man was torn limb from limb by an irate mob last night in the fashionable Soho area.  Different rules apply when it gets this late.  You know what I...

You can't drop out without breaking a few eggs.  Franz and Paul, along with returning guest Scott, are willing to touch Indians, see the mountains and the prairies and the whole rest of that song while hitching a ride onto Albert Brooks' 1985 yuppie comedy meltdown LOST IN AMERICA!  See David (Albert Brooks) and Linda (Julie Hagerty) pack the Winnebago and hit the open road, leaving behind the wor...

Franz and Paul, along with returning guest Becki, bite off more than they can chew while digging into Julia Ducournau's rich 'n' rare 2016 French horror body rock — RAW!  Garance Marillier plays Justine, a first year veterinary student experiencing the initial flush of independence away from home.  And a fierce craving that proves extremely difficult to suppress.  Mmmm, baptism by fire.  You are w...

Let's get the guns on the table — Franz and Paul are here to tell you that this free enterprise system of ours works!  And they, along with returning guest Brandon, will cross the rickety footbridge and step into Robert Altman's 1971 muddy dreamy revisionist western McCABE & MRS. MILLER, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie!  A gambler and a prostitute work at making something out of nothing....

Franz and Paul have tried everything a person can do.  And still, every week, they plow into at least one deer.  This week: David Lynch's 1999 slow 'n' stubborn midwestern road movie THE STRAIGHT STORY, starring Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek!  Armed with hot dogs and grit, 73-year-old Alvin Straight drives from Iowa to Wisconsin on a John Deere lawn mower to reconnect with his ailing brother...

Franz and Paul won't go near a job without front money.  But they will gladly Wang Chung to William Friedkin's 1985 shotgun blast to the face TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.!  William "Rick" Petersen and Willem "Rick" Dafoe walk the counterfeit safety line between cop and criminal.  So it won't be long before worlds collide — like clockwork, baby!  It's play dough or play dead at the Drive-In Garage.  You...

The study of nature has taught Franz and Paul that life is founded upon killing and destruction.  Also, the Plesiosaurus is a bit undercooked.  The year draws to a close with the 1974 tribe vs. tribe matinee adventure THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT!  Directed by Kevin Connor, starring Doug McClure, Susan Penhaligon, and John McEnry.  Uncharted for 200 years, the mysterious island of Caprona plays host...

To understand, one only has to listen…to Franz and Paul as they try to contain the mischievous mayhem of Joe Dante's 1984 holiday classic GREMLINS!  So light the fire, notice the smell, and make the illogical logical.  Rules were made to be broken at the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com Instagram: driveingaragepodcast

It's decompression in depth as Franz and Paul quadruple-check their air tanks and take the plunge into Peter Yates' 1977 Bermuda summer squall THE DEEP, starring Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, and Louis Gossett Jr.!  If the rum 'n' morphine don't get you, it'll be the cold embrace of the stache. And that's no lover's kiss. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Franz swears that he saw something but Paul doesn't believe him.  This week: the October horror train pulls back into the station with Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Venetian psychic death-capade DON'T LOOK NOW!  As a grieving couple attempt to put the pieces of their lives back together following a tragic accident, a sinister warning may be broadcasting from beyond the grave!  The echoes from the walls are...

Franz and Paul got those highway blues, can't you hear their motor runnin'?  October rolls on at breakneck speed with Steven Spielberg's 1971 fuel injected nightmare DUEL!  It's Mann vs. Machine as Dennis Weaver fights for his life when a psycho truck driver decides to take out his rage on the next dude that passes him.  Fasten yer seatbelts, and fill 'er up with ethyl.  It's gonna be a bumpy ride...

Franz and Paul have been in the business a long time.  Now if they don't want to do a show, it's not because they got stage fright.  It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want them to do the show.  On the other hand, the show must go on!  This week: Brian De Palma's 1974 devil-in-the-details horror rock musical PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE!  Now we're in business together…forever! Email: drive...

Franz and Paul punish the guilty, reward the innocent, and kick off another Rocktober with Ed Wood's 1957 psycho Solaranite babble bonanza PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE!  Direct from Space Station Seven — the flying saucers are here and ready to touch down.  So watch the skies…and the cemeteries…and the patio.  Monsters!  Graves!  Bodies!  Can you prove that it didn't happen? Email: driveingarage@yahoo....

Franz and Paul remember to turn off their phones as they explore Issa Lopez's 2017 tough 'n' tender ghost tale TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID!  Amid the rooftops and empty streets of Mexico City, a group of children orphaned by the drug wars learn to survive while facing the constant threat of violence and the shadows of missing people.  In the Kingdom of Broken Things, mind what you wish for. Email: drive...

Sha Ka Wheeeeeee!  Franz and Paul don't want their pain taken away.  They need their pain!  They will, however, journey deep within William Shatner's 1989 brother-from-another-mother summer space sequel STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER!  Laughing Vulcans, apologetic Klingons, anti-logic boots, marshmellons, the Almighty, and the return of Franz's brother Jason!  Here is the proof you seek! Email: d...

Franz is the theme, Paul is the metaphor.  They're not from anywhere.  They're from this bed.  And they, along with returning guest Brandon, will get to the bottom of Paul Schrader's 1980 L.A. chic flick AMERICAN GIGOLO, starring Richard Gere!  When you're ready we can share the wine.  Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, anyhoos. Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

Thou shall not fall...for sexy vampires.  Unless it's Kiefer Sutherland.  This week: Franz and Paul, along with special guest Laurie, hit the boardwalk and sink their fangs into Joel Schumacher's 1987 teen horror bonfire THE LOST BOYS!  You'll never grow old.  You'll never die.  But you must feed.  Bwa-ha-ha-haaat the Drive-In Garage! Email: driveingarage@yahoo.com

This is what Franz and Paul fought all night to get back to?  It's still good news, Boppers, 'cause next up we got Walter Hill's 1979 NYC gangland fantasy THE WARRIORS, starring Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, David Patrick Kelly, and the armies of the night — 100,000 strong!  If you get separated, make it to the platform at Union Square.  Can you dig it? Email: driveingarage@y...