Dead End Drive-In

1986·Movie

1h 27min

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About

There's a party every day, a movie every night, and all the junk food you can eat. What more can a kid want... except to get out.

In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths.

DNA

Genres: Horror Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Satire
Mood: DarkViolentUnsettlingIntenseBleakGrittyDystopianOminous
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Crew

Directed by:

Brian Trenchard-Smith, Paul Murphy, Adrian Pickersgill

Written by:

Peter Smalley

Produced by:

Andrew Williams

Composed by:

Frank Strangio

Cast

Ned Manning

Crabs

Peter Whitford

Thompson

Ollie Hall

Frank

Lyn Collingwood

Fay

Brett Climo

Don

Garry Who

Drive-In cop

Gandhi MacIntyre

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