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Welcome to the town of Blanca Carne, California, home of whiny,
overprivileged teens, bumbling cops, and Horny the Clown, the deadly
mascot for the fictional fast food restaurant 'Hella Burger'. Do you
like your horror with little to no gore? Then "Drive Thru" (2007,
straight to DVD) is all that and even less!
Leighton Meester
(Gossip Girl) plays Mackenzie, a tough but tender high school girl who
fronts her very own rock band. One night after a tough gig of working a
party at her own mansion, the group of friends decides to play with a
ouija board. Of course the board...wait for it...takes on a life of
it's own.
After a group of kids get butchered at the local
'Hella Burger' the cops know they have a crazy on their hands. But
these are "B "horror movie cops so not much gets done. Headed by a fat
bumbling detective, who desperately tries to channel Chris Farley in
his performance, and his tough as nails girl partner who needs to kind
of take over due to the fact he is always eating.
It seems the
otherworld is trying to give Mackenzie signs and warn her of the next
moves of Horny the Clown. Who basically is a walking drive thru speaker
that spouts one liners like "You know you want my hot dog in your hot
little buns" and "Did someone say PORK!" It seems Horny the clown is
actually, well, horny. When the body count of Mackenzie's friends
starts to rise...it is game on!
In the middle of everything
Mackenzie decides it's time to lose her virginity to her boyfriend
(Nicholas D'Agosto). Hey, girls have needs too and I know nothing gets
me hotter than losing friends to a demented serial killer. Who knew you
could have a sex scene without showing any nudity or anyone actually
having sex? Instead the scene ends with the camera panning to an
etch-a-sketch on the floor that has "I love Bush" scrawled across it.
Oh, that Horny clown!
One thing that really struck me about this
movie was its lack of creativity. All of a sudden the plot turns into a
Freddy Krueger type situation where the kids are paying for the
parents' past sins. One of the final scenes is straight out of "Happy
Birthday to me", complete with birthday cake and dead friends sitting
around a table in party hats. This didn't feel like it was meant to be
a 'homage' either.
With the exception of a kid getting his
face shoved into a deep fat fryer, there really wasn't much action at
the fast food restaurant. The setting of a restaurant could have
provided a lot of opportunity for some really cool and original kills.
Also, there is CGI gore, which is a big "No No" in my book and really
puts me off. The few scenes that actually contained gore could have
been less cartoonish without the CGI.
The cast isn't in danger
of winding up on 'Inside the Actor's Studio' any time soon but they
give it the old college try and a couple of funny one liners come
through. When it's discovered that Horny the Clown, the favorite
childhood mascot, is killing people, it leaves one of the teens to say
"It's like finding out Captain Kangaroo has pieces of Mr. Greenjeans in
his freezer"
"Drive Thru" comes in at a merciful 86 minutes so,
in a way, it's like fast food itself. At first it tastes really good
and it satisfies but then you wish you never had eaten it. This movie
can be fun but just don't expect too much. Until next time...
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