Fear Flashbacks! – A night at the drive-in back in 1972

Whoooo-EEE! Four films in one night!

Drive-ins were fun to a point. It was great to watch movies in your car, bring your own snacks, and be able to talk if you wanted to. You could also skirt extra ticket prices by throwing your buddies into the trunk (hopefully the lock didn’t jam).

My very first drive-in memory was me and my sister falling asleep in the back of my parents’ AMC Gremlin watching SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, circa early 1978. However, if we’d had something more akin to the four-picture horror extravaganza we feature today, I probably would have stayed up longer.

We start with one of my all-time favorites, THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (sometimes known as SATAN’S SKIN) before dovetailing into THE BEAST IN THE CELLAR. But the night isn’t over yet! We then charge bleary-eyed into the Hammer film THE MUMMY’S SHROUD. Depending on which theater you visited, your fourth and final offering was either the another Hammer offering, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, or MUNSTER, GO HOME! Not that it matters because I guarantee I would have been asleep by the opening credits of THE MUMMY’S SHROUD, anyway!

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