European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Joe Bob Briggs goes to the drive in movies a Kinder gentler mutant for the 90s the drive in eighties began with the classic Basket Case the Story of a horribly deformed twisted mutilated siamese twin who lives in a picnic Basket and is very angry about it. It summed up the Nixon years for me and Many others like me. And now we begin the nineties with Basket Case 2. Belial has matured. He s Learned to act out his aggression in safer ways. He identifies the people whose faces need to be eaten before he starts munching. And he s falling in love. It s a Kinder gentler horribly mutilated siamese twin who lives in a picnic Basket. Why did the sequel take nine years to make because it s perfect. America is a different place. Belial no longer lives in a loft overlooking times Square. He lives in the attic of a mansion in Staten Island. And he has friends. Thanks to a Fruitcake lady Psychia Trist he s the head of the world s most militant minority group. They All have Heads like giant squashed Garden vegetables and they spend most of their spare time in ugly therapy with the lady doctor. But they have one thing in common they hate Normal people. And when a smart Mouth Bimbo reporter for a slea Zoid Magazine shows up to write stories about the Freak House they All get together for a Little motivational therapy Fol Lowed by some serious molar sharpening. Even though it s Only been nine years it seems like Only yesterday that we had the world drive in Premier of Basket Case at the Highway 183 drive in in Irving Texas at 2 in the morning. About 300 cars showed up for it and the world was changed forever. And now they be made a better one. It picks up exactly where the first one left off with Duane splattered All Over the pavement of times Square. He s a mess but he s not dead. Duane and his twin brother belial get Side by Side intensive care Beds and All it takes is a couple Security guard meals and wham no they re out on the Street ready to be taken into the care of. Annie Ross the jazz Singer and classical actress she s working a horror film and she s great. Meanwhile there s a grotesquely deformed female belial upstairs in Granny s Freak attic and belial is spending a lot of time parking his muscle mass in front of lady belial s pet bed. Duane thinks that if belial actually Falls in love with another mutant monster than Duane will be free for the first time. And he has his Eye on. Heather Rattray the girl from Mountain family Robinson and wilderness family the most obnoxious simpering White bread girl next door in America he wants to do with her what no Man has done before. Fat Chance. I Don t Wanna say anything else cause it s one of those movies where anything can happen at any moment and nothing happens where it s supposed to. Another Messter piece. Four stars. The Standard for the nineties. Joe Bob says Check it out. Joe Bob s advice to the hopeless communist Alert the Frontier drive in on High Way 199 just outside Cave Junction ore., has a big for Sale sign on it and the wind is not Only whipping through the Pines around the screen it s whipping through the screen. David Arthur of creators Syndicate the cast of Snake eater a drive in film Joe Bob plans to review sometime. You would t want to see the cast of Basket Ashland discovered the sad sight and reminds us without eternal vigilance it can happen Here. Dear or. Bob your review goodnight Sweet Marilyn took me by Surprise. You see Terrence Locke died in 1982, and i was wondering if it s the same per son in an old movie. He did play in a movie with misty Rowe called goodbye norms Jean. Per haps they recut that. I m curious because i lived with or. Locke until he died and he never spoke of goodnight Sweet Marilyn. Perhaps there is another Terrence Locke. Pat Sheehan Santa Rosa Calif. Dear Pat Larry Buchanan the greatest conspiracy theorist drive in movie maker working today some times spends ten years working on the same movie and then he gives it three four different titles so it s very possible that the movie completed in 1988 was shooting in 1982. That s the kind of drive in Genius Larry is. He s a perfectionist. And now that we re discussing it if Marilyn Monroe was killed by the mafia Cia Castro and Bobby Kennedy then who killed Terrence Locke the soviets Marina Oswald John Bloom on the cover of your first Book. You Ain t Hangin around no int Lect Al types Are a if this Guy can talk about shadows As non objective reality or a paradigm imagine All he would have to say about Reform school girls. Stefan f. Columbus Ohio dear Stefan i Don t know How Many times i have to Tell you people John Bloom is dead. Editor s note Joe Bob Briggs the world s Only drive in movie critic is the invention of former Dallas times Herald columnist John Bloom. Along with a syndicated newspaper column Briggs has written three books and plans a film National Lampoon s topless Bloom has disappeared. Joe Bob i quote in elevating the Shadow to primary reality the denizens of the Cave substituted the projected image Shadow for the substance it self. This substitution was the first condition of a non objective reality and still serves As a paradigm for the forms of written by some Guy called John Bloom. I saw a Page 12 to plus sunday May 6,1990
