By Joe R. Lansdale
Simply after they idea it used to be secure to go away the drive-in, the survivors of the Orbit's weekly All evening Horror express detect that their previous international has been decreased to a unmarried cracked street surrounded on either side via a prehistoric jungle full of man-eating dinosaurs. For it slow, Jack and his buddies are content material to make the simplest of lifestyles within the Stone Age—until they meet a lovely martial arts professional from Nacogdoches, Texas, named Grace who desires to locate out what is on the finish of the road.
Now issues relatively get bizarre as they come across a city the place public suicide is inspired, a woodland of previous motion picture posters, motion picture mags, and carnivorous movie, and Popalong Cassidy—a man-monster cowboy with a tv head and a style for human munchies—whose church of movie and discomfort is presided over via the alien drive-in gods: the manufacturer and the nice Director.
Even extra outrageous than the scary unique, The Drive-In 2 is a delightfully down-and-dirty romp via the darkish backcountry of our personal mind's eye, the type of stuff that nightmares—and B movies—are made from it actually is not only one other one in all them sequels.
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The moon was brighter, now that the shadows had fled, and I could read the printing on the poster. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The words looked as if they had been written in blood. Out in the trees I could see big hunks of whiteness. I decided they were fragments of drive-in screens—chunks of white painted wood. Draped between the trees like Christmas decorations were lengths of film, the moonlight sticking through the sprocket holes like long, bright needles, and a sort of mist swirling about the film itself.
I was still bound when I awoke, but I was no longer in the jungle. I was tied to the wrecker, facing out. The wrecker was off the highway and a tarp had been stretched over it and the end visible to me was stretched down tight with stakes, and the center of it was poked up high with an antenna stalk that bloomed into a clutch of silver quills at the top. It was warm under the tarp, and the warmth came from fires built in the husks of a dozen television sets. Rain pounded the tarp and scratched at it like harpy claws.
Or as Dr. ' "I know this now, but all my life I have been looking for this truth and it's been under my nose all the time. The images taught me where it was at. There are good images and there are bad images, but the bad images make the best show, so I ve opted for the bad images. I praise the Orbit for leading me to the truth. I praise the night I went. The Popcorn King was right. Movies are reality and everything else is fraud. But the King was not the Messiah, as I thought. He was John the Baptist.