Lansdale & Coscarelli: The Magic Continues
Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn. On a cool, crisp summer night, with the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes, movie-goers for the All-Night Horror Show are trapped in the drive-in by a demonic-looking comet. Then the fun begins. If the movie-goers try to leave, their bodies dissolve into goo. Cowboys are reduced to tears. Lovers quarrel. Bikini-clad women let their stomachs’ sag, having lost the ambition to hold them in. The world outside the six monstrous screens fades to black while the movie-goers spiral into base humanity, resorting to fighting, murdering, crucifying, and cannibalizing to survive. Part dark comedy part horror show, Lansdale’s cult Drive-In books are as shocking and entertaining today as they were twenty years ago.
This volume contains all three Drive-In books in one volume, along with an introduction by Don Coscarelli and illustrations from the Coscarelli movie that was never made.
Unsure if the adaptation refers to the first Drive-In book (1988) - or, Joe Lansdale’s Dead In The West (1986) which Don Coscarelli once optioned, only to end up adapting Bubba Ho-Tep (trivia time: both Dead In The West and Bubba take place in the town of Mud Creek, Texas - and Dead’s main character is a man of the cloth called: Jebediah!).
For those eager for more Lansdale/Coscarelli weirdfoolery, the book hits shelves both wooden and virtual on May the 1st.
July 13th, 2010 at 4:56 am
I knew George singer when I was a Kid he lived close to us and let me borrow one of his big video games for my room for a while he was cool.He was the stunt man in Phantasm told me how he played the dwarf and drove the hearst when it blew up.guess hes how they got the name Singers creek.Guess if hes alive somewhere hes 70 saomthin hard to belive he was 40 the other day when i was a kid in the 80s