Okay, if you only like watching good cinema than this one isn't for you. It has no real value to it save as a time capsule movie and for unintentional hilarity. The movie itself is set as a slasher/whodunit hybrid where two utterly incompetent detectives are trying to find out who is murdering couples making out at drive-ins. Most of their investigative time is spent talking to the despicable and belligerent manager and 'Germy' the janitor as well as a spot of cross-dressing and interrogating patrons of the drive-in. There is also a boring sub-plot about the owner moving away. Well, the movie drags on for a little over an hour and still feels long at that point and either the film ran out of cash or the screenwriter wrote himself into a hole and credits role with the case going unsolved and a cheap scare announcement that there's a murderer on the loose in 'YOUR DRIVE-IN.'While the movie would be watchable with MST3k, Rifftrax, or Cinematic Titanic commentary it's boring and tedious unless you've got a lot of beer and/or a few friends with you. It does have one thing going for it though, it makes me pine for the days of watching movies at a drive- in or second run theater.

****SPOILERS*** Bloodless slasher movie about this drive-in movie theater that's been targeted by some psycho who seems to dislike the films that its playing. Stalking the lot and looking for action the killer ends up killing some half dozen costumers, couples necking, before the police decide to have it closed down before any more people end up getting killed. It's Det. Mike Leary & police psychologist Steve Vincent who try to track down the killer with very little results in that they seem to be the only police assigned to this high profile murder case. One of the craziest scenes in the movie is when both Leary & Vincent have it out with this escaped or just pardoned lunatic accused of murdering his parents who's intended victim, his teen age daughter, after being rescued refuses to press charges against him! It's the drive-in manager Yule Brenner look-alike Austin Johnson who soon becomes the #1 suspect in this string of drive-in murders just because he used to be a knife thrower in the circus before he got the job there. Johnson for his part has it in for the night watchman at the drive-in Germy in him, besides wanting to get paid, once being a much better knife thrower as well as swallower then he ever was. ****SPOILERS***In the final sequence were made to see that both Leary & Vincent finally got their man only for it to be so confusing that you didn't even know if the film ended or not until you saw the closing credits. One of the hardest movies to watch in that the lighting in it was so utterly dismal that you strained your eyes & brain in trying to watch or follow it. As for John F. Goff & Douglas Gudbye as cops Leary & Vincent they in fact did a commendable job in trying to be convincing, by not cracking up, but it without out a doubt was the torturous and painful acting of Robert E. Pearson as the thankless drive-in manager Austin Johnson who won the acting honors by showing, like those of us watching, how he felt about the movie and being in it like it was more of a prison sentence then an acting role for him.

There's somebody who is slashing to death a whole lot of the patrons of a particularly drive-in theater in the Los Angeles area where no doubt films like this are being shown. Before a couple of spoon sharp detectives solve this series of crimes a lot more couples get themselves hacked and slashed.In this no name cast with acting on the level of my junior high school dramatics,the two detectives discover that the land that the drive-in is on was once a carnival and the drive-in employees are all former carnys. You've got knife throwers, sword swallowers and some general all around hard cases working at this drive-in with the various implements ready and available.Drive In Massacre is the kind of film shown at drive ins so people who were there for something else could rest assured they were missing absolutely nothing of any redeeming artistic value

Right, what to say about the "Drive in Massacre". Well, lets start with bad acting, on which we can go to poor direction and from that we can jump right to terrible soundtrack and we can even lace the whole thing with poorly done script. And that's what I can say about the movie.This is one of those b-films which feel like they don't go anywhere, and this certainly something that is accurate about this one. There's some murders in the drive in, yet nothing is done with them even tough the film supposedly revolves around solving the case, yet it really didn't feel like it. And the film even managed to feel too long.So avoid, if you can. It really wasn't even funny in a purely bad way..