Shudder Releases All-New Trailer and Key Art for
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs’ Seventh Season
Series Returns for Monthly Double Features, Beginning Friday, March 7
on Shudder TV and AMC+ TV
Kicking Off with Special Guest Ice Nine Kills Frontman Spencer Charnas
Today, Shudder revealed an all-new trailer and key art for the upcoming seventh season of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (more via Variety), which will consist of monthly double features and select holiday specials, covering more than 30 horror titles. The season seven premiere episode debuts Friday, March 7 at 9pm ET/8c LIVE on the Shudder TV and AMC+ TV feeds and will feature special guest Spencer Charnas, the frontman behind horror-inspired heavy metal band Ice Nine Kills. All-new episodes debut monthly on Fridays. Fans can also watch the season on demand on Shudder and AMC+ the Sunday after each episode premieres.
Lock your doors and crank the volume the first Friday of every month and join Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl for an all-new season of bone-tingling double-features sure to delight horror buffs and video hounds alike, proving once again that the drive-in will never die.
In the season seven premiere, Joe Bob and Darcy the Mail Girl kick off the season with an all-new double feature, including a 100th birthday celebration of the first great American horror film.
Matt Manjourides for Horror News
HNN: What can you tell us about filming internationally, and what other projects you are working on?
Matt- Filming internationally is usually challenging but the reward is worth it. You have all the issues of a regular production but add in language barriers, issues getting gear and equipment, dealing with travel for key crew and actors (sometimes people who have never been abroad) and local politics. We are currently finishing up a new Shudder original, a documentary and starting project we are looking to shoot in Argentina.
HNN- What can you say about your production company?
Matt- With Not The Funeral Home, our first feature was a co-production with an Italian company, which set the stage for working with foreign companies. Since then we specialize in being able to bring projects to places all over the world. We deal with the local production companies, governments and even handle local rebates. A one stop shop. This has allowed us to use our expertise to add incredible production value to our own in house productions.
HNN- Do you have a certain type of film that you look for?
Matt- We like projects that are not boring, exciting and have some commercial appeal. If we can shoot it somewhere cool like The Philippines or even Antarctica it excites us even more.
HNN- What was it like working on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs?
Matt- Working on The Last Drive In is a marathon not a 5k like a film. We have been in constant production for 7 years. Since our seasons flow into each other we haven’t stopped working on the show since the original marathon. It’s comforting, frustrating, exciting, depressing and gratifying all at the same time. Like any other production.
HNN- What was it like, and how did you get involved?
Matt- I grew up watching Joe Bob on the movie channel. Then followed him to TNT. I started working for Troma in 2006 and emailed Joe Bob at his website. We met for lunch in the village. We talked about some sort of show with Troma. I pitched it to Lloyd and Michael and they turned it down. I kept the idea in my pocket for 10 years until I was at Fantasia film festival with another project and met the Shudder folks. I think Shudder was around maybe a year and I pitched them the 2 show ideas. They wanted both and we started putting them together. One idea fell apart but Joe Bob kept going forward and we had a deal within 3 months. We shot the marathon (a whole other story) and we crashed the AMC network. We had a deal for another season the next day.
HNN- What advice or words of wisdom would you offer to fellow producers or people working in the industry?
Matt- It’s a big catch-22 now, No studios are willing to put up money without a streamer guaranteeing to pre-buy the project for double the budget. Which means what use are these companies? Just there to take 20% i guess. At this point you have to scrape together your own budget and try to sell it after you complete the film, that way you hold all the cards.
HNN- Do you think you will ever direct a film sometime in the future?
Matt- Yes we are working on that right now.
HNN- How do you feel about working on shows versus films? Is one more challenging?
Matt- Both are hard and have the same problems. Making a show is just like making a bunch of hour long movies.
HNN- What else are you working on? What’s next?
Matt- Because of the issues with the industry right now, you can’t hyper focus on one type of project. We have features in the horror space in the works, We have longform series, A True Crime show, Documentaries and even a reality series.
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