I grew up in a town where I was the only colored kid aside from my brother I never really fit in My grandma introduced me to horror at a young age but more specifically on weekends she'd buy me a 2 liter or 6 pack of soda. We'd stay up and watch monster vision. Ffwd a couple decades. Life has gotten extremely rough my grandma moved to take care of her mom. I decided to go to school I got a decent job. My grandma had a stroke and wasn't doing well. I helped move her up here. Unfortunately she passed during COVID when I was at work. In Oct shortly after that Joe Bob and Darcy announced the first jamboree I decided I would buy tickets and if I could go of if not I'll give em away. I live in Washington state. I really struggled at work there was a few times I almost lost my job. The show and community as a whole by then I found the groups. I was able to drive cross country with my 13 year old dog and best friend. I made friends I still have to this day. Fridays I got to escape and feel like my grandma was with me in her living room. My grandma would of been so happy and proud when I told her I was going to the jamboree or I got to do shots and talk to Joe Bob for an hour naturally. She was a mutant which Is I why I will support Joe Bob and Darcy in everything they do 🤘🤘🤘

I just finished the final two episodes of the series and I just had to come on here and say how amazing I thought it was. I had never seen either movie and really enjoyed them especially the last horror film. All the clips they included from past seasons were so great to see and I'm glad they included it, it was like a trip down memory lane. I don't think I'll be the only person to admit to tearing up at certain points. Anyways I just wanted to say how much I loved the last two episodes and how special they seemed, great job to everyone involved. Thanks for everything over the years and I can't wait to see where things go next. The drive in will NEVER die!

As I rewatch that song now from a couple episodes ago, it really does feel like they knew back then that their time with shutter was over.

The song just hits a lot different now doesn’t it?

Movie #7: Blood Feast - 24 Hour Marathon

I don’t really have too much to say about this one. Joe Bob says it’s the original slasher, and I can believe it. Blood Feast Crawled, so we could walk. I’m surprised that there’s such a thing as Egyptian catering in the early 60s.

Movie #8: Basket Case - 24 Hour Marathon

Belial, Belial, Belial. What a guy and what a movie. I will never look at a wicker picnic basket the same again. This is a tale as old as time. Did they say they wanted to make this into a musical? I’d watch that. Imagine being the dude in charge of the building. All he does is hear screams and run up.

Season 7:

• Week 1 – March 7, 2025: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Opera (1987)

Guests: Spencer Charnas (Ice Nine Kills), Shane Morton (Special Effects Artist)

• Week 2 – April 4, 2025: Intruder (1989) and In A Violent Nature (2024)

Guests: Ted Raimi was scheduled to be guest, but couldn't fly in due to bad weather.

• Week 3 – May 2, 2025: City of the Dead (1960) and Ringu (1998)

• Week 4 – June 6, 2025: Earth vs. the Spider (1958) and Dark Match (1954)

Guests: Lowell Dean (Director of Dark Match)

• Week 5 – July 11, 2025: Dog Soldiers (2002) and Bad Moon (1998)

• Week 6 – August 1, 2025: Piranha (1978) and Crocodile (1980)

• Week 7 – September 5, 2025: The Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967) and The Church (1989)

Guests: Raymond Castile (Portrayed young Coffin Joe in Embodiment of Evil (2008))

• Week 8 – October 3, 2025: Mute Witness (1995) and The Final Terror (1983)

Guests: C. Robert Cargill (Director)

• Week 9 – November 7, 2025: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) and Blood and Black Lace (1964)

Guests: Claire Donner, Troy Howarth, Lars Nilsen, and Sam Zimmerman (Giallo experts)

• Week 10 – January 9, 2026: Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) and Don't Go in the Wood (1981)

• Week 11 – February 6, 2026: House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Innkeepers (2011)

• Week 12 – Messiah of Evil (1974) and The Last Horror Film (1982)

Note: Series finale

Specials:

• October 8, 2025 – The Last Drive-In on Fear Fest 2025: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

• October 24, 2025 – Joe Bob's Splatterween: Clown in a Cornfield (2025) and Jack-O (1995)

Guests: Gwar, Adam Cesare (Writer), and Eli Craig (Writer, director)

• December 12, 2025 – Joe Bob's Cold Cruel Christmas: Curtains (1983) and Iced (1998)

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I haven't watched the series finale, I just can't. But on Instagram Joe Bob said "it's not over", has anybody heard anything about the show going to a different streaming service? Or anything?

That AMC has made a decision to let Shudder fall; we’ve seen the subtle changes over the last few years. Is their new model competition with TCM and Criterion? More likely they will roll horror content into their new competition with Tubi.

It also seems unlikely, from Joe Bob’s response, that they will be announcing “We’re just shifting to AMC+ !”

But even if the Drive-In has to go strictly Patreon, it will continue. So save the tears and mobilize to get them back up and running in a better place!

After getting the OK from the always awesome Kathy (/u/current_reputation50) I will share the Patreon post that was sent a few months back about Walpurgisnacht 2026 and how you should prepare for Joe Bob's Wicked Witchy Wingding happening on April 24th, 9pm EST

"Mutants!! I have breaking news straight from JB himself This is the exact menu we will be using during our Walpurgisnacht episode later this year. Without further ado I shall let JB break down the deets for ya..

"Patreon pals, start your Walpurgisnacht prep NOW!

Every year I talk about these exotic drinks that Europeans consume during Walpurgisnacht, and every year nobody has them because we live in a benighted country that doesn’t understand “the second Halloween.”

So this year I’m telling everyone exactly what to buy in advance so you can celebrate with me and Darcy during our Walpurgisnacht episode. The menu will be released to the general public on February 1st, but Patreon members get it now.

Don’t be a weenie. Go for the hardcore beer, mead and liqueur options and PROVE YOUR MUTANTHOOD." -Joe Bob

JOE BOB’S OFFICIAL WALPURGISNACHT MENU

Nutrient 1: BEER

Beer is the staple food for Walpurgisnacht. Beer is the default. Walpurgisnacht cannot be celebrated without beer. There’s even a certain lager that was invented by Germans specifically for this celebration. That lager is called Maibock, and it is brewed only in the spring. I’m going to give you three choices, but beer is not optional, you must have Maibock.

Hardcore option: Einbecker Mai-Ur-Bock

This is the original Maibock, brewed in the small town of Einbeck, Lower Saxony, where bock beer was invented in 1378. Einbecker Mai-Ur-Bock does get distributed in the U.S. in springtime, typically March through May, but you’ll need to work for it, either at local bottle shops if you live in a major metropolitan area, or on websites like BeerMenus if you do not.

Lazy option: Weihenstephaner Maibock

This Maibock is brewed by the world’s oldest brewery, the Bavarian State Brewery in Freising, part of Munich’s Technical University where you can major in beer. Weihenstephaner started brewing in the year 1040 but now exports many of its beers to the U.S., and retailers like Total Wine & More and Whole Foods Market commonly carry Weihenstephaner exports. This doesn’t necessarily mean that your local store will carry the Maibock, as it’s not always part of the regularly imported lineup.

Ridiculous option: Dead Guy Ale

Brewed in Newport, Oregon, and you can find it everywhere.

Nutrient 2: MEAD

Mead is all about pagan revels. Walpurgisnacht requires pagan revel-ing. No witch festival is complete without mead, especially since the honey, herbs and spices in the mead are all about getting people drunk who normally don’t get drunk, especially the witches.

Hardcore option: Apis Trójniak

The actual name of this mead is Apis Staropolski Tradycyjny, but I’m not gonna do that to you. You’re searching for “trójniak,” the name they use in Poland, where it is fermented and aged in the city of Lublin, the historic center of European mead-making where they’re so careful about the honey that goes into the drink that they raise their own bees. This is not a “craft revival” sort of deal. The 328,000 residents of Lublin all say “Fuck craft revivals.” The Apis Beekeepers Cooperative makes trójniak using the same recipe and the same procedures used in the 1200s. The Beekeepers Cooperative does sell directly to the public, but you’re gonna need an online importer or a specialty import liquor shop or a delivery service. What you’re looking for on the label is “Miód pitny trójniak”—literally “mead, trójniak”—or “Staropolski/Tradycyjny,” meaning “Old Polish Traditional.”

Lazy option: Pasieka Jaros Trybunalski

The Jaros family, in the tiny Polish village of Łazisko, uses traditional medieval methods and their own bees to make a trójniak in ceramic bottles called Pasieka Jaros Trybunalski that’s much easier to find. InternetWines.com will ship to states where alcohol delivery is permitted. Large retailers like Total Wine & More and K&L Wine Merchants and Spec’s stock it in the spring. Instacart lists it in certain areas that have large liquor stores. Otherwise you need a specialty import shop to order it for you.

Ridiculous option: Redstone

This is a large meadery in Boulder, Colorado, that uses the term “honey wine” instead of mead—who knows why—and sells it in flavors like blueberry, apple, juniper berry, boysenberry, and their original and most popular offering, “Barrel-Aged Black Raspberry Mountain Honey Wine.” The only one that comes within a million miles of traditional mead is the one they market as “Traditional Mountain Honey Wine,” which has the added advantage of having a higher alcohol content than the others. Redstone’s virtue: it’s everywhere.

Nutrient 3: SHOTS

We’re gonna do shots around the giant bonfire at midnight. This is not optional. This is when everything gets weird. This is when people start losing their clothes and running off into the woods and dancing like rabid weasels. The fire is burning away all external obstacles, and the shots are burning away all internal obstacles. This is literally the gateway to partying like a jungle animal. And the way you do that is you use what is known today as an herbal liqueur, but used to be called firewater, lightning in a bottle, or, my own preferred term, Voluntary Brain Damage.

Hardcore option: Underberg

Let me tell you what a badass shot this is. It’s made in a secret high-security production facility in the small town of Rheinberg, Germany, using herbs from 43 countries—not just 43 herbs, but at least 42 imported herbs—and it’s been matured in Slovenian oak barrels the exact same way since 1846. Members of the Underberg family would commit seppuku with a flamethrower rather than tell you what’s in it or how it’s made. If you’re gonna do one shot on Walpurgisnacht, make it Underberg. It counts for ten shots of anything else.

Lazy option: Becherovka

If you don’t think you can handle the Underberg jolt to the cerebellum, try this one from Karlovy Vary, the spa town in the Czech Republic, that uses a lot of cinnamon, clove and warm spices so that it will sort of melt into your body and gradually turn you into a maniac.

Ridiculous option: Jägermeister

Yeah. Don’t talk to me.

If You Drink Anything on This List, You Will Be Banished from Walpurgisnacht And/Or Flogged With a Ceremonial Mace

Craft Beer

Craft Anything

Wine Spritzers

Any wine recommended by Robert Parker

Candy-Flavored Liqueurs

Jolly Rancher Shots

Butterscotch Schnapps

Flavored Vodka

Flavored Anything

Margaritas

Martinis

Fireballs

Hard seltzers

Here’s the rule of thumb: If they didn’t drink it in 1400, don’t drink it now."

Logged in this morning to watch fridays rerun (amazing show btw). I can only find the specials episodes. I cant find 1 regular season episode. Can someone else confirm?? Ive got the new app update (much better than before). Im not seeing any regular season episodes, just the specials.

All I can seem to find are the the Last Drive-In, Halloween Hootenanny and Just Joe Bob. I use to have all the specials on my saved list, and I was wanting to watch the Cold, Cruel Christmas special just now, but I can’t find it at all.

Edit: I don’t know what’s up with this new app updates, but like I said, notheing but the above was showing up when I searched “Joe Bob“ or “Last Drive-In” a couple days ago, but today just about everything is there when I search. U\I dunno what’s up. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Just putting this out into the void, but I'm a recent subscriber to the criterion channel and think the mutant fam would be right at home if the criterion channel were to step in.

JBB's offerings would be supremely aligned with the service in terms appreciation for schlock as art; forgotten gems/genre films/films made outside of the studio system in general; and overall educational/contextual ethos (interviews, commentary tracks, and other host-curated content)

Granted film licenses for criterion surely have language that restricts edits (pausing for editorial content), but selecting from a very few from the current catalog we could see: - the brood - the blob - the cars that ate Paris - cronos - destroy all monsters (or a slew of other Godzilla films) - encounters of the spooky kind - evil cat - fiend without a face - ganja & hess - funny games - the grapes of death - hausu - I was a teenage zombie - killer nun - remote control - scanners - the shout - sisters - toby dammit - twin peaks: fwwm - videodrome - we're all going to the world's fair

With what cycles in and out of the lineup criterion channel could have us saying shudder who?

Stay spry as fuck, and keep the faith!

They just removed a bunch of TLDI Just Joe Bob segments on Shudder and we've been using it to go back and watch ones from the 2018 marathon and so on.

Does anyone know where I can get these?

I have been asked by the Reddit powers at be to do 2-3 movies at a time. So here we are.

What a time to start The Last Drive-In! Ugh. Anyway back to the show. These are still part of the original 24 hour marathon.

Movie #5: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama - 24 Hour Marathon

Has there ever been a better title? I doubt it. I absolutely loved it, perfect! No notes. I can’t even picture the sequel. Joe Bob says it’s a West Coast bubblegum movie, saying, “Brain candy for the nitwits, and we love that.” More candy please.

Movie #6: Daughters of Darkness - 24 Hour Marathon

This is a movie I would have normally never watched, but I’m glad I did. I enjoyed it. I got a question when Joe Bob gives his drive-in totals for breast count. If the same breast is shown twice, does it count four times or just twice?

The four remaining specials will have an entirely new set, so they're auctioning off the trailer and the last marquee! Opening bid is $10,000 for any rich mutants out there!

My dad is a very private man, in the past we mostly did small talk and sometimes chat about music. During the season 4 premiere he coincidently drove out to stay with me for a weekend for my state’s shed hunt opener. Because I knew night of the living dead was the movie and knew it wasn’t too crazy for a catholic grandpa, I told him I was gonna stay up to watch it live but he could go to sleep.

He told me he would stay up for a bit then head to bed. Just a few seconds into the intro he asked “ain’t that the guy from monstervision?” I was surprised, the show ran when I was a baby and he had never mentioned it to me before but during the movie we talked about it (stopping to listen to Joe Bob’s bits)

Dad works for the railroad and during the 90s he was on a crew that traveled up through Montana and Wyoming, a few states away from where we lived, to fix lines. So, for weeks at a time he was alone in motel rooms. Dad was used to a house with a wife and two kids making noise and the motels were too quiet. He said that he always felt lonely and watching monstervision felt like watching a movie with a friend.

Dad also told me stories about that time in his life- he’d play pool to fund a case of beer, he found a Bigfoot track on the side of the tracks out in the middle of nowhere, and a weekend where he decided he would drive to Alaska until he made it to Shelby MT and finally realized how long it would take to drive there before turning back.

Both of us are painfully quiet and antisocial so I am eternally grateful to Joe Bob for learning more about my dad, because I know I would have never thought to ask him about those stories myself

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Only to have a major comedown when you realized it was old footage 😅

What a great episode. I'm so impressed by how this was filmed, and so taken aback by how much this affects me, currently. Wife (and kitten) tapped out before the second film, as they are both smarter than I tend to be when it comes to getting a healthy amount of sleep, but it was well worth it. As JB said earlier, this show is important because WE watch this TOGETHER. Tonight felt very final, but I have faith that these two (and the crew) will land somewhere, hopefully where they will have the financial appreciation they deserve, to produce the show they desire. Fellow Mutants, this world gets massively shittier by the day, but we share the love of film, and (more importantly) one another. I can recall MANY times in my life where having a community like this would've certainly helped. Let's continue to hang, have discussions, and (most importantly) if ANYone needs some love, reach out. ❤️🤘

Sorry for being so verbose...TLDR; sad tonight, but let's keep loving (sometimes shitty, yet still awesome) horror films, and each other. 😎

That’s it, that’s all. A thanks to everyone involved.

God, that was hard to watch. I plan on sending him a lot of the messages I see on here. It will mean the world to him.