A year before the slasher boom really hit its stride with john carpenter's legendary trendsetter halloween, there was drive in massacre an early slice and dice protoype that is finally achieving its rightful reappraisal courtesy of a brand new 4k scan from the splatter movie addicts at 88 films! This worldwide hd debut indicates that drive in massacre was, in many ways, ahead of its time spinning a sleazy story about a clueless police investigation into a madman who is carving up spectators at outdoor cinemas across california! Introducing the sort of giallo framework that the post friday the 13th teenkill genre would later take as its own, drive in massacre was directed with the expert grindhouse touch of stu segall, the man who oversaw marilyn chambers in insatiable 1980 before producing such hit tv series as renegade. A lively and lacerating bout of lunatic slasher energy