The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
The World’s Foremost Drive-in Movie Critic – actually he’s pretty much the world’s only Drive-in Critic – Joe Bob Briggs brings his iconic swagger to Shudder. Across 13 movies, this firebrand of horror and drive-in cinema offers honest appreciation, hilarious insight, inside stories and of course, the Drive-in totals.
- 2018-2026
- 7 seasons
- AMC+
- Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction, Talk & Interview
The World’s Foremost Drive-in Movie Critic – actually he’s pretty much the world’s only Drive-in Critic – Joe Bob Briggs brings his iconic swagger to Shudder. Across 13 movies, this firebrand of horror and drive-in cinema offers honest appreciation, hilarious insight, inside stories and of course, the Drive-in totals.
Season 7 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2025 - 2026
Episode 0
Joe Bob's Cold Cruel Christmas: Curtains
Fri, Dec 12, 2025 165 mins
Actresses auditioning for a role are targets for murder.
Episode 0
Joe Bob's Cold Cruel Christmas: Iced
Fri, Dec 12, 2025 137 mins
Old friends are unaware that a nemesis has murderous plans.
Episode 1
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Fri, Mar 7, 2025 149 mins
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Episode 2
Opera
Fri, Mar 7, 2025 168 mins
A young opera singer on the cusp of stardom is hounded by a psychopath with a connection to her past, who forces her to watch as he brutally murders her friends and colleagues.
Episode 3
Intruder
Fri, Apr 4, 2025 124 mins
Supermarket night shift workers face a deadly stalker in this 1980s slasher film directed by Sam Raimi collaborator Scott Spiegel.
Episode 4
In a Violent Nature
Fri, Apr 4, 2025 143 mins
An undead creature mysteriously rises in a remote wild area, embarking on a violent spree and seeking revenge, becoming a legendary murderer.
Episode 5
The City of the Dead
Fri, May 2, 2025 145 mins
In this atmospheric classic, a professor sends a student to Whitewood, Massachusetts, the site of 17th century witch burnings; once there, she learns the satanic secrets that live on.
Episode 6
Ringu
Fri, May 2, 2025 150 mins
A group of teens are discovered dead with expressions of horror on their faces. They fell victim to an urban legend involving a cursed video.
Episode 7
Earth vs. the Spider
Fri, Jun 6, 2025 139 mins
Rural teens and their science teacher fight a massive mutant spider terrorizing their community.
Episode 8
Dark Match
Fri, Jun 6, 2025 155 mins
A wrestling promotion takes a booking in a remote town and discovers the place is controlled by a cult leader.
Episode 9
Dog Soldiers
Fri, Jul 11, 2025 150 mins
Sergeant Harry Wells leads a team of British soldiers on a routine expedition to the Scottish Highlands. The six men would rather be at home watching a game, but they are even more dismayed when a carcass lands on their campfire. The next morning, they happen upon a severely injured Captain Richard Ryan and the bloody remains of his squadron.
Episode 10
Bad Moon
Fri, Jul 11, 2025 133 mins
After surviving a brutal attack by a mysterious creature in Nepal, Ted moves closer to family to recover. Too bad he's starting to realize the truth. Ted was attacked by a werewolf is helpless to stop his transformation.
Episode 11
Piranha
Fri, Aug 1, 2025 150 mins
While searching for missing teenagers, novice skip tracer Maggie McKeown and local town boozer Paul Grogan stumble upon a top-secret Army laboratory conducting genetic research on piranha fish for the purpose of developing biological warfare. When the deadly eating machines are accidentally released from the compound, they're soon headed downstream and consuming everything, and anything, in their path.
Episode 12
Crocodile
Fri, Aug 1, 2025 135 mins
A giant crocodile is killing and frightening people living nearby rivers. Two men, whose wives and daughter have been killed by the crocodile, decide to chase and eliminate it.
Episode 13
This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
Fri, Sep 5, 2025 161 mins
Coffin Joe, obsessed with a son, kidnaps 6 girls with Bruno's help. A sinister trial of fear unfolds to find the chosen one.
Episode 14
The Church
Fri, Sep 5, 2025 155 mins
Ravenous demons imprison visitors inside an ancient church in the third entry in the Italian "DEMONS" series. Though Mario Bava's son Lamberto directed the first two films, for this entry, assistant director Michele Soavi (CEMETERY MAN) took over, while Bava and DEMONS 1 and 2 co-writer Dario Argento penned the screenplay. The result is a heart-stopping nightmare featuring an onslaught of gory horrors that will have you steering clear of old churches on your next Italian vacation. Asia Argento stars, while Philip Glass (CANDYMAN) provides the scary score.
Episode 15
Mute Witness
Fri, Oct 3, 2025 139 mins
Billy, a mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie is locked in the studio at night, where she witnesses the crew making a snuff film. Now, she's in for the fight of her life in this spectacular and underseen 90s thriller.
Episode 16
The Final Terror
Fri, Oct 3, 2025 136 mins
In acclaimed director Andrew Davis' (THE FUGITIVE) first foray into genre filmmaking, a group of forest rangers on a camping trip are stalked by a psychotic killer with a very dark past. Sounds like your typical slasher, right? Wrong. Thanks to Davis' skilled direction and cinematography, a script that defies genre expectations and the acting talents of Daryl Hannah, Adrian Zmed and Joe Pantoliano, THE FINAL TERROR ranks alongside RITUALS and JUST BEFORE DAWN as one of the best backwoods slashers ever made. You'll cancel your next camping trip after watching.
Episode 17
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Fri, Nov 7, 2025 171 mins
Dario Argento nails the Giallo blueprint in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, a brutal thriller that packs a gory brace of terrifying murders alongside its genre defining mix of red herrings, leather gloved slashers and stylish decor. When Sam, an American writer in Rome witnesses an attempted slaying in an art gallery, he unwittingly sets the killers sights on himself and his beautiful model girlfriend. But soon, things start to unravel as it becomes clear that the identity of the unknown slayer is very much open to question. Somebody's killing everyone; who is the evil fiend? Could it be Sam himself? Argento's groundbreaking shocker combines eye-popping visuals with a seamy vein of sadomasochism and a lust for violence to create a genre defining movie classic.
Episode 18
Blood and Black Lace
Fri, Nov 7, 2025 170 mins
When young model, Isabella, is murdered by a masked killer, the employees of a chic Italian fashion house find themselves the next targets of the mysterious assailant. A missing diary, a torrid affair, deception and backstabbing are all potential motives for the fashion house slayings. This seminal thriller by legendary Italian filmmaker, Mario Bava, became the blueprint for giallo cinema with its visually arresting colour scheme, set piece murders and convoluted plot. A great influence on fellow Italian director, Dario Argento, BLOOD AND BLACK LACE went on to shape Italian horror, as well as the slasher film of the 1980s.
Episode 19
Don't Torture a Duckling
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 150 mins
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Episode 20
Don't Go in the Woods
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 122 mins
Four friends camping in the woods inadvertently stumble upon the domain of a maniacal killer.
Episode 21
House on Haunted Hill
Fri, Feb 6, 2026 123 mins
William Castle's gimmick-laden horror thriller is a fairground fun house come to life. Vincent Price stars as a suave eccentric millionaire married to a beautiful and greedy gold digger. Together they are hosting a party in a sinister haunted house. Five guests are invited to spend the night and each will get $10,000 -- but only if they survive until morning. The doors are locked at midnight. Will you make it out alive?
Episode 22
The Innkeepers
Fri, Feb 6, 2026 141 mins
Two amateur ghost-hunters explore a haunted hotel in the days before it closes. Director Ti West's spooky follow up to THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL takes place in New England's most famously frightening hotel, which soon will shut its doors for good. Determined to uncover paranormal proof, hotel employees Clair and Luke begin an investigation of their own. But when odd guests check in, the pair start to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to end up mere footnotes in the hotel's long, unexplained history.
Episode 23
Messiah of Evil
Fri, Mar 6, 2026 145 mins
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
Episode 24
The Last Horror Film
Fri, Mar 6, 2026 144 mins
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.