Drive-Thru is set in the small American town of Blanco Carne where local resident Jack Benjamin (John Gilbert) has built up a chain of fast food restaurants named 'Hella-Burger', however the story is tinged with tragedy as his son who played Horny the Clown in all the TV commercials & promotions was killed in a terrible accident some years ago on his 18th birthday. However it seems like Horny has come back from the dead to avenge his untimely death at the hands of a prank gone bad by killing the teenage children of those responsible, or maybe it's some nut-case just dressed up as Horny the Clown? Watch it to find out...
Written & directed by Brendan Cowles & Shane Kuhn this is actually pretty poor fare saved by a good killer & the fact it doesn't last long. The script is basically a rip-off of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1983) as a group of parents past indiscretion's come back to haunt them & take revenge on their children so in that respect it's not original & is pretty predictable, then there's Horny the Clown killer who is indeed a pretty cool killer but the whole twisted killer clown thing was done with far more imagination & wit in Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) & I'd like to see anyone try & argue with that. The teenage character's are poor & not very likable which doesn't help, the so called funny one-liners are actually pretty lame & the jokes aren't particularly funny either. Then there's the story which tries to keep the killer identity secret until the end, well all I can say is you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work it out. There's no background given to why this guy has risen from the grave & if he is some sort of demonic killer he seems very human at times in what he does. To it's credit it's moves along at a fair pace & didn't bore me that much.
Director's Cowles & Kuhn do a great job here & this looks really nice & it seems like there was actually some money behind it. Unfortunately while the film looks very professional it's not scary, it has zero atmosphere & the bad one-liners fall flat. So basically you have this incredibly good looking film but it has absolutely no substance to it whatsoever. There is also a distinct lack of gore, sure there's blood & a few 'plastic meat clever stuck on someones forehead' type effects, a stupid scene where someone has their face burnt by having a microwave with a hole in the bottom placed over their head & held in place on them with steel chains & a CGI sequence where someone is cut in half but there's nothing memorable or particularly convincing here.
Technically Drive-Thru looks really good with great production values & it's certainly well made. Having said that I hated the rock music that is used every time Horny the Clown is on screen, it simply kills any tension & ended up giving me a headache. The acting is alright.
Drive-Thru seems to have had a lot of positive comments on the IMDb, I'm not really sure why as this is a pretty routine, predictable, virtually bloodless to get an 'R' rating, filled with comedy that isn't funny slasher film that has a decent killer but very little else. Prehaps we have been starved of good low budget horror for a number of years that we almost want to like this, anyway this is average at best & predictable rubbish at worst. Watch it if your desperate.
Written & directed by Brendan Cowles & Shane Kuhn this is actually pretty poor fare saved by a good killer & the fact it doesn't last long. The script is basically a rip-off of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1983) as a group of parents past indiscretion's come back to haunt them & take revenge on their children so in that respect it's not original & is pretty predictable, then there's Horny the Clown killer who is indeed a pretty cool killer but the whole twisted killer clown thing was done with far more imagination & wit in Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) & I'd like to see anyone try & argue with that. The teenage character's are poor & not very likable which doesn't help, the so called funny one-liners are actually pretty lame & the jokes aren't particularly funny either. Then there's the story which tries to keep the killer identity secret until the end, well all I can say is you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work it out. There's no background given to why this guy has risen from the grave & if he is some sort of demonic killer he seems very human at times in what he does. To it's credit it's moves along at a fair pace & didn't bore me that much.
Director's Cowles & Kuhn do a great job here & this looks really nice & it seems like there was actually some money behind it. Unfortunately while the film looks very professional it's not scary, it has zero atmosphere & the bad one-liners fall flat. So basically you have this incredibly good looking film but it has absolutely no substance to it whatsoever. There is also a distinct lack of gore, sure there's blood & a few 'plastic meat clever stuck on someones forehead' type effects, a stupid scene where someone has their face burnt by having a microwave with a hole in the bottom placed over their head & held in place on them with steel chains & a CGI sequence where someone is cut in half but there's nothing memorable or particularly convincing here.
Technically Drive-Thru looks really good with great production values & it's certainly well made. Having said that I hated the rock music that is used every time Horny the Clown is on screen, it simply kills any tension & ended up giving me a headache. The acting is alright.
Drive-Thru seems to have had a lot of positive comments on the IMDb, I'm not really sure why as this is a pretty routine, predictable, virtually bloodless to get an 'R' rating, filled with comedy that isn't funny slasher film that has a decent killer but very little else. Prehaps we have been starved of good low budget horror for a number of years that we almost want to like this, anyway this is average at best & predictable rubbish at worst. Watch it if your desperate.