Drive Thru (2007)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Directors:

Brendan Cowles
Shane Kuhn

Writers:

Brendan Cowles (writer)
Shane Kuhn (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

At Hella Burger, It Won't Be The Food That Kills You... But You'll Wish It Did.

Plot:

Horror gets Super Sized when Horny The Clown, the demonic mascot of "Hella-Burger," starts slashing Orange County teenagers with his meat cleaver from Hell.

Plot Keywords:

Horny The Clown | Meat Cleaver | Blood | Killer Clown | Statutory Rape

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Leighton Meester	...	Mackenzie Carpenter
Nicholas D'Agosto	...	Fisher Kent
Melora Hardin	...	Marcia Carpenter
Lola Glaudini	...	Detective Brenda Chase
Larry Joe Campbell	...	Detective Dwayne Crockers
Van De La Plante	...	Horny the Clown / Archie Benjamin
Penn Badgley	...	Van
Sita Young	...	Val Espinoza
Rachael Bella	...	Starfire
John Gilbert	...	Jack Benjamin
Morgan Spurlock	...	Robbie, The Hella-Burger Manager
Edward DeRuiter	...	Brandon Meeks
Haven Lamoureux	...	Tony
Paul Ganus	...	Bill Carpenter
Robert Curtis Brown	...	Bert McCandless

Also Known As:

Hellaburger (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, drug use, language and some sexual content.

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 | USA:R | Australia:R (2007)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Armada Pictures

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Camera crew reflected on the side of the truck when the police are dusting for fingerprints.

Quotes:

Mackenzie Carpenter: I don't recall inviting any Banana Republicans to my party.

Movie Connections:

References Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Keep on driving thru

I'd like 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' patty, an order of 'Final Destination' Fries, a supersized 'Killer Klown' Kola and if you could throw in a 'Happy Birthday to Me' Meal with the 'Funhouse' toy, that would be swell. I wish I was kidding when that opening sounded exactly like what the writer was ordering while driving through a fast food joint one day and came up with the (ha) original idea for 'Drive Thru.' Incoherent scenes – the lead's birthday was to be the next day, but ended up two days later, horrible acting and so-called fast-food jokes, a laugh-out-loud 80's dressed clown and awful music played while the Freddy Krueger copycat attacked. Yes, I'm taking it way too seriously – it just seems to be a harmless remake of 'Nightmare' and 'Destination,' but it really could've been so much more. I'm probably just bitter for being such a huge fan of the movies it's ripping off (well, for 'Nightmare,' 'Klown' and 'Destination,' not so much 'Funhouse' or 'Birthday') and I wonder if it's any coincidence that as a fan, as well, of NBC's 'The Office' that it stars two people who has costarred on the TV show – Nicholas D'Agosto and Melora Hardin. And as for the title, it's practically nonexistent throughout the film; in fact all of the carnage (meaning both kills as well as the mangled script) in the film is, ah-hem, sandwiched between the only two drive thru scenes.