Hosted by the cowboy-hatted cult motion picture critic and Shudder streaming-service personality Joe Bob Briggs, the second yearly “Joe Bob’s Drive-In Jamboree” will inhabit all 4 screens of the Malco Summertime Quartet Drive-In from July 8-10.
The event– which likewise will fill up the convention rooms at the Hilton Memphis– assures a monster mash of genre films, cult stars, professional wrestlers, rock-and-roll, on-sale memorabilia and more. Briggs calls it “3 days of ludicrous orgiastic nerdy fun.”
A real kid of the South (born in Dallas, raised in Little Rock and schooled at Vanderbilt) who now lives in New york city, Briggs, 69, said in an interview he selected the Malco Summertime Drive-In for his second “Jamboree” since “it is an old-fashioned American drive-in.” Also, its paved surface will get rid of the problems connected with in 2015’s inaugural Jamboree at the Mahoning Drive-In in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, a gravel-on-grass area that rains changed into what Briggs called “a muddy morass. It was a little like Woodstock.” Briggs said live efficiencies will occur in front of one screen at the Malco drive-in and be basically simulcast on the others.According to ticket sale details, fans are driving to Memphis from California, the Pacific Northwest and the East Coast for the event. Briggs expects a near sell-out, he said. “We have individuals driving in from all over however I’m hoping the locals will check us out, too, “stated Briggs, whose Shudder series,”The Last Drive-In, “has drawn in a big and active online fan community.”Partly the fans pertain to see the movies and partly they come to see me, however I believe a lot of it is they come to see each other. “Here are five things to learn about the “Jamboree.”BAZ LUHRMANN: The ‘Elvis’ director discuss the King,’Kane ‘and the Colonel’TAKE ME TO THE RIVER ‘: Memphis artists, others craft New Orleans
sequel to BluffCity documentary’Halloween III ‘and Tim Cappello”Live Drive-InProgram, “Friday night:Opening night of the”Jamboree “commemorates what Briggs calls “the movie I have grumbled about for 40 years,”1982’s”Halloween III: Season of the
Witch,” the only film in the franchise that does not include masked serial killer Michael Myers. Director Tommy Lee Wallace and stars Tom Akins and Stacey Nelkin will go to, and participate in a post-movie question-and-answer session. The evening starts with music by saxophonist Tim Cappello, a long time Tina Turner partner maybe most recognizable for his role as the muscled shirtless sax gamer in the 1987″brat pack”(or bat pack)vampire film,”The Lost Boys.”Doors(so to speak) open at 4 p.m. (which holds true of all drive-in events).’Rock ‘n’ High School’and’Bubba Ho-tep'”Live Drive-In Show,”Saturday night: The evening begins with a performance of Ramones cover tunes played by Brooklyn’s John Brennan and the Bigfeet, with actress P.J. Soles carrying out lead vocals on”Rock ‘n’ Roll High School”–“
similar to she performed in 1979 when she set Vince Lombardi High School on fire,”says Briggs, referring to Soles’lead role together with the Ramones in the Roger Corman-produced movie” Rock ‘n’ High School, “which is the night’s first function. The 2nd function– properly enough, since Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis “was the No. 1 film at the box workplace in its opening weekend– is”Bubba Ho-tep “(2002), which stars Bruce Campbell as an aging nursing-home Elvis who battles a resurrected mummy.” It’s excellent timing, “Briggs stated.” We didn’t know the brand-new motion picture would be out now.’Bubba Ho-tep’resembles the drive-in equivalent.”Bests of’true indie films'” World Drive-In Movie Festival,” Sunday night: The last night at the drive-in presents the world premieres of what Briggs calls “true indie films,”produced”outside the L.A.-New York-London monetary centers.” Sent for this celebration and chosen by Briggs and his company, two brand-new scary- or exploitation-themed feature films and
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Ray of” Mystery Science Theater 3000 “will appear, and live music will be supplied by Axeslasher, a Denver metal band that appeared in the 2015 film “Deathgasm.” ‘Popular culture Conventio n’The Hilton Memphis at 939 Ridge Lake Blvd.– a popular website for fan events dedicated to comics, science fiction, anime and so on– will host the Jamboree’s convention, from 4-9 p.m. July 8, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. July 9 and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 10. Panel conversations, sign sessions, souvenirs rooms and more will be featured. Celeb attendees from the drive-in screenings will
get involved, along with”Darcy the Mail Woman”and other cast members from”The Last Drive-In”( which has been renewed for a 5th season, Shudder announced last week). Other notables set to participate include “blaxploitation”actor/auteur and football great Fred”The Hammer” Williamson; shapely Austrian actress Sybil Danning (“Chained Heat, “”Howling II”); Felissa Rose, extraordinary star of 1983’s notorious” Sleepaway Camp”; professional wrestlers Danhausen, Blade and Bunny; and 1980s “shriek queen” Kelli Maroney, kept in mind for her functions as a robot-slaying party lady in” Chopping Shopping center” and as a cheerleader navigating post-apocalypse L.A. in”Night of the Comet.”DOCUMENTARIES: A Memphis man’s nationally acclaimed motion picture about racism wishes to inform us ‘Who We Are’MEMPHIS STARS: ‘I wanted to honor his memory ‘: Memphis actor is Bam Bigelow in NBC series’Young Rock “How Rednecks Saved Hollywood’Previous to the”Jamboree”appropriate, Briggs will be at the Crosstown Theater at 7 p.m. July 7 to provide a comedic/scholarly investigation of what he calls “the history of hillbillies in America as informed through the classics of both grindhouse and mainstream movies.
“More than 200 movie clips show the talk, which will discuss such subjects as “Thunder Road,” Burt Reynolds,” the tight
cut-offs worn by Claudia Jennings in’Gator Bait,'” “why the redneck is the scariest monster in all of movie history,”and