AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

phanthinga Look at the plot of Dead End Drive-In you pretty much know what you got into is a 80s dystopian movie but to my surprise the movie actually far more deep and somehow go beyond than just a cheesy b-movie.The characters is your typical cliché rebel teenagers so the dialogue not that easy to hear(no offense to Aussie people btw) or interesting but what catch my eyes the most is the world around them and how it work is fascinating to me.It may come out a little bit boring to watch cause the majority of the runtime there nothing really happens so I only recommend this movie to hardcore b-movie fan

marc-1025 Wow! This movie is more 80s than Purple Rain. And the music is better too.....well almost.Although you would be mistaken for thinking that the 80s ingested it's self and spewed it's self back up causing a teenage mutant post-apocalyptic punk party - scratch that, you're probably right.This movie is mental. And it works.It's the distant future...maybe.....and the world ( or Australia ) is full of punks called cowboys who cause mayhem and destruction. The police are useless and dirty. A young jogger named Crabs takes his girlfriend to a drive in cinema.This is where the movie takes a crazy turn. Crabs and his girlfriend find themselves stranded after their car's wheels are stolen. It turns out that there are hundreds of people stranded in the drive-in and there is no escape. It reminds me of an abstract reworking of The Prisoner TV series, and it works pretty well.All of the characters, costumes, props and locations are cool. There is only one gripe - the drive in is meant to be cut off from the world with only an S-road outside with miles to the next settlement - at least that's how I understood it, but you can clearly see houses outside of the walls when crane shots are used. Not a major flaw by any stretch.Talking of crane shots - The direction is excellent. The camera movements, framing and pace are spot on. As usual the Arrow video release is very good. The transfer looks great and the audio is excellent as too is the soundtrack.All in all a quirky 80s Australian hidden gem and definitely worth checking out if you're an 80s fan.More reviews at Ukfilms net

Scarecrow-88 Crabs and Carmen(Ned Manning and Natalie McCurry)decide to take big bro's fancy Chevy for a little spin and stop at the Star Drive-In. What they don't expect is that the cops steal two wheels from the car and there is no way out. As they come to understand, this place is a concentration camp for punkers, junk-food lovers, and drive-in movie addicts. Crabs is dead-set against remaining in the slums of this prison(which might actually be a dream for those who wish to party endlessly the day and night away, eat burgers, drink down strawberry shakes, and do drugs without a hassle)& will seek a way out while his girlfriend, Carmen, loves her new home and wishes to remain.Set in a economically unstable Australia, undesirables or those deemed as "wastes" of the society have their own place to live with minor allowances and make their place of rest inside their tire-less vehicles. What interrupts their utopia, however, is when the government decides to bring truck-loads of asians and other minorities for drop off. The "White Australia" of the camp wish them gone because they deem them some sort of threat..Carmen is quite compassionate about this as she has become integrated in the atmosphere of the camp. Crabs searches for some way of just leaving and this strains his relationship with Carmen. We often see police trucks circling and they present an ominous authoritarian presence which offers that no one will be able to stray too close to any escape. You have Thompson(Peter Whitford)who operates the place claiming that he's merely an employee following orders, but this doesn't seem to wash with Crabs who spies on him with the police.Interesting curio for lovers of 80's trash cinema. It offers not such an impossible idea..rounding up those deemed inferior to the society as a whole. To get rid of those considered a pain in the neck to morale and comfortable living, just weed them out and put them away. You give them what they want..freedom to screw around not having to worry with following a modicum of rules, while at the same time not having to eat healthy and have the luxury of watching nothing but trash on the big-screen.

José Luis Rivera Mendoza (jluis1984) Brian Trenchard-Smith is probably not a house-hold name even for B-movie fans, however, this Australian director has created among the wackiest and most original movies ever. While his work may not be of high quality (his two "Leprechaun" films are a good example of this), they are always creative as his wild imagination seems to be set loose every time he sits at the director's chair. "Dead-End Drive In", probably his best film, is a perfect example of this: writer Peter Carey constructs a very intelligent tale set in an apocalyptic wasteland, and Trenchard-Smith takes fully advantage of the plot to construct one of the best Australian b-movies. A cult-classic.After the world's economy collapsed, Australia was turned into a wasteland where the unemployed youth uses the street as a battlefield and the law is forgotten. To fight this, the Government uses a Drive-In to lock them and keep them controlled using fast food and movies. A young man named Crabs (Ned Manning) is trapped in this way, but instead of becoming a conformist member of the nihilistic youth, he decides to fight back and escape no matter the cost.Hidden under this sci-fi/horror tale of an apocalyptic society is a very well-written plot with social commentary included. "Dead-End Drive In" is a great story against the conformism. Crabs is trapped in an apparent paradise where he can get all the fast food he wants and do nothing but live each day, but instead he chooses to fight back and try to escape from the Drive-In and to return to his family. He knows this "paradise" is false, and that the only thing worth fighting for is real freedom.Stretching the budget to the max, Trenchard-Smith manages to create very well done scenes with the very few resources he has. He makes a great use of his locations and the film is packed with high-octane action and a healthy dose of humor. Still, the film remains focused on its message and Carey makes a portrait of present-day society, as racist, conformist and violent as the youth depicted in the film. It is not a horror movie in the sense of being scary, but it is haunting in the sense that even when it is a fictitious scenery, it is not hard to believe that humanity will behave the way the conformist teenager do in the film.Ned Manning is very good as Crabs, as he has the looks of a common young man trapped unfairly in a living tomb. His character is very likable and his performance makes the most of it. Natalie McCurry, playing Crab's beautiful girlfriend Carmen is also an important character, as she begins to lose hope in Crabs' idea and starts to behave just as the rest of the cattle. The rest of the cast is very good, but really nothing memorable.The films's biggest flaw is the sad fact that the film looks terribly dated. The film has that distinct 80s feeling and look and it can't come up as "futurist" anymore. Anyways, that is not really a serious flaw as it adds up to the charm the film has. The movie still manages to be quite entertaining and some effects (like the use of explosives) still look great after 20 years."Dead-End Drive In" is a very interesting sci-fi movie from Australia that it's definitely worth a rent. With its 80s feeling, high-speed action and social commentary it still delivers the goods. This film is more than a cheap "Mad Max" rip-off, it is a terrific (and hopefully not prophetical) vision of the future. 7/10