Drive-In Theater: Difference between revisions

* An issue of ''[[Hsu and Chan]]'' had the characters head off to a drive-in and getting caught up in a money making scheme of an old movie anniversary.

 

* ''[[Targets]]'' ends with a sniper taking potshots at patrons at a drive-in theater. He is eventually faced down by [[Boris Karloff]].

* ''[[Spies Like Us]]'': A ''[[Star Wars]]''-style anti-missile system is hidden underneath an old run-down drive-in theater.

* The original ''[[That Darn Cat]]'' features a [[Chase Scene]] at a drive-in.

* ''[[Blood Rage]]'' begins at a drive-in, where the killer (then a young boy) claims his first victim by hacking up a random patron up with an axe that was lying around... for some reason.

 

* ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'' contains a fictional example of a drive-in theater being used as a [[Make-Out Point]].

* The second ''Snark Out Boys'' novel by [[Daniel Pinkwater]] deals with the secret history of the drive-in as a major plot point. The book claims that the original "drive-in" was a stage show in Romania in the 1800s, which the peasants hated so much that they burned it down and drove the purveyor out of the country. The climax of the book is at the world's largest drive-in theater, founded by a descendant of the original inventor. [[Brick Joke|A Romanian pyromaniac shows up and sets the entire lot on fire.]]

* An episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' took place at a drive-in and focused on the dates of Laura, Steve, and Waldo. The latter of which didn't even come in a car, rather Maxine and he just walk in with folding chairs and coolers.

 

* "There's an [[Elvis]] movie on the [[Department of Redundancy Department|marquee sign]]" is the opening line to Hal Ketchum's "Small Town Saturday Night".

* "Moonlight Drive-In" by Turner Nichols recalls a former lover and how they would make out at the drive-in.

 

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