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La Notte Del Drive-in (2000)

by Joe R. Lansdale(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8806148702 (ISBN13: 9788806148706)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: From Joe R. Lansdale hisownself comes a cult classic trilogy: a madcap mash-up of splatterpunk horror, black comedy, absurdist sci-fi, and psychotronic surrealism.In the first installment, The Drive-In: A ‘B’ Movie with Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas, a group of moviegoers are mysteriously trapped in a drive-in theater. What follows is a nightmare of wanton violence, cannibalism, supernatural mayhem, and overflowing toilets. Imagine a cross between The Twilight Zone, The Lord of the Flies, and The Evil Dead. A no-holds-barred pulp extravaganza shot through with a riotous sense of humor. (Lansdale is one funny motherfucker.) The prose is unfussy but colorful, spiced with funky vernacular rhythms and outrageous turns of phrase. The only problem is a certain unevenness-... more the intensity peaks midway through and the last act feels rushed and rather anticlimactic. The followup, The Drive-In 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels, was written a year later. It moves beyond the claustrophobic confines of its predecessor and plays out as a sort of post-apocalyptic lost-world road trip. It lacks some of the original’s dark intensity and suffers from an underdeveloped scenario but it’s still odd, funny, nasty, and quite entertaining. The third installment, The Drive-In: The Bus Tour, was written a decade and a half later but is very similar to the first two in tone and style; it’s also considerably longer. It might be the weirdest book in the trilogy. This time around the prose is a bit sharper and the storytelling a bit more fleshed out. It’s good clean (filthy) gonzo fun. And it ends with a twist so brain-warping it’ll blow a hole in your skull: an audacious finale to a one-of-a-kind series.
review 2: Popcorn King, where have you been all my life?Lansdale has long been on my list of "I need to get into that guy's work some time" authors. I was checking out a list of Most Disturbing Books Ever, and Drive-In was mentioned in the comments. I was not disappointed. This was a gruesome read, with depraved violence presented with a nonchalance that may be more disturbing than the violence itself. It reads like a cartoon, the kind you watch when you're tripping with your buddies and don't even realize how scared you are until you have to get up and go into another room. I actually haven't gotten into the next book yet; giving my brain a bit of a breather. But I hope I get to learn something about the aliens, and see some Americans kick their asses. That's kind of our thing. ;-] less

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