Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-In

we'll be starting off the Chiller Drive-In opening weekend with 1967's suspenseful stinker, Devil Doll. You'll never look at the toys in the doll aisle the same way again. Or maybe you will. Who are we to judge?

If you thought the biggest thing to ever come out of Ireland was Riverdance, then you’re in for a surprise. In this 1961 stinkeroo, a giant monster is captured and taken to London to be put on display. But the creature’s mother is not happy about it.

When a giant robot Kong can't dig up enough radioactive Element X, the evil Dr. Who (No relation to the famous Timelord) decides to kidnap the real thing! However King Kong's current gal pal and her commanding officers have something to say about that. It's monkey shenanigans and kaiju smackdown - thanks to the folks at Rankin/Bass.

A nuclear explosion awakens a fire-breathing monster from hibernation. No, not Godzilla. We're talking about Gammera (with 2 M's - that's how you know he means business)! Gammera, who's clearly not a morning person, opens a can of whoop-booty on Tokyo. Meanwhile, teenyboppers dance to the Gammera theme song... at least until Big G crashes the party.

Actually, this movie spends more time dedicated to the sport of mountain climbing than it does on any dinosaurs. It stars Cesar Romero (best known as The Joker from the 60’s Batman TV series), Hugh Beaumont (Leave it To Beaver) and Acquanetta (AKA The Venezuelan Volcano) in a role she was born to play. Everything goes bad when an experimental nuclear rocket veers off course and crashes someplace in the South Pacific. Major Joe Nolan gathers a crew to go hunt it down, and crash land on an island with big lizards, some dinosaurs and a smoking hot native girl. Oh yeah, and don’t adjust your sets – it’s supposed to be green. Yeah, this one’s a stinker, so to ease/add to your suffering, Wolfman Mac, Boney Bob and Professor M Balmer take a ride in a submarine to rescue Morgus Gravesly from the clutches of a monster menace at the bottom of the Detroit River. Wait, what? It’s more action than should be allowed by law all packed in to 90 minutes!

This week we have the 1972 bunny blowout, Night of The Lepus. Yeah, this week’s monster is a horde of rabbits that are just dynamite. These rabbits will do more than just nibble your bum. They’ve got a vicious streak a mile wide. This one stars Janet Leigh (best known for her role as Marion Crane in Psycho) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek).

When a woman and her lover murder her invalid husband, they dream of taking his fortune and living happily ever after. But when strange things begin to happen, they suspect that the dead man's ghost has returned to take revenge on them! Starring Barbara Steele in all her Scream Queen glory.

A crazy scientist makes contact with the planet Venus using his killer quadraphonic stereo system. He chats with a creature named Zontar, who claims that he’s going to come to Earth and solve all our problems. Well, it turns out that Zontar has other plans and instead causes mass power outages, car breakdowns and controls the minds of Earthlings! This movie is so bad, it’ll actually make your TV smell like wet garbage.

A man is haunted by visions of a hot blond, so he dumps his frumpy brunette girlfriend and joins a Satanic cult... Yeah, who hasn’t had this happen to them? It stars Neil Hamilton who is probably best remembered for playing Commissioner Gordon on the 1960’s Batman TV show.

Radiation once again plays the role of monster maker and turns some happy little swamp leeches into monstrous beasts that feed on humans - and make basketball sized hickeys on their victims. It stars Yvette Vickers, who was probably best known as Playboy's Miss July 1959 - Because this film sure wasn't going to make her a household name.

This week we have a touching love story about a man who “accidentally” kills his ex girlfriend by throwing her off a lighthouse (points for originality), and is then haunted by her ghost. Richard Carlson plays a Jazz pianist that can’t seem to stop killing people to keep his crimes quiet. The scorching hot Juli Reding stars as Vi, the ghost with the 40-23-35 curves. Dig up a date, light a few candles and get a bottle of your favorite bubbly. It’s about the closest we’re ever going to get to showing a chick-flick.

It's the 1922 silent classic that needs no introduction, Nosferatu! And because this is a 4-star film, you’ll get points with all your snooty, arts-fartsy friends, and get some "culture" while being entertained by fart jokes! Win-win, baby!

When a hot blond is horribly disfigured in an accident, a wacky scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her. To preserve her appearance the doctor must give her additional treatments using glands taken from murdered women. His odd ability to turn into a monster helps with this problem but does nothing to win her love. It only goes further downhill from there.

A wealthy man and his conniving wife invite 5 complete strangers to spend a night in a haunted house - with the promise of $10,000 to anyone that can survive till morning! The doors are locked, there’s no way out and not everyone will live through the night!

The kooky Dr. Cortner and his beautiful fiancée Jan, take a trip to his weekend retreat. But a horrible car accident decapitates Jan and the doc collects her severed head and rushes it to his laboratory, where he revives it and manages to keep it alive in a cookie sheet. Now the doc needs a new body so he can make Jan whole again!

Gamera, the giant flying turtle, returns to Chiller Drive-In for another rubber suit monster mash! This time, Gamera takes on the rainbow spewing monster Barugon... who seems to get an awful lot of screen time (he must have been related to the director). The disrespect doesn’t stop there, but surprisingly Gamera even takes the mispronouncing of his name all in stride. What a turtle.

A creepy doctor catches his wife fooling around with another man, so he does what any normal guy would do: he tortures and shocks them and removes their hearts. Then he marries his ex’s mentally disturbed sister – who is plagued by nightmares after moving in with the doctor. Barbara Steele digs deep to play a dual role of a blond AND a brunette in this gothic horror great.

It’s the classic black comedy about Seymour, a doofus that somehow breeds a meat eating plant. As the plant grows it demands bigger meals, so Seymour has to resort to murder to keep it fed. Don’t miss Jack Nicholson in one of his earliest roles.