Horror host Joe Bob Briggs is back in action. Shudder has announced an all-new special, The Last Drive-In: Nightmareathon, celebrating the conclusion of The Last Drive-In’s supersized sixth season, which debuted earlier this year.
The special premieres Friday, August 30 at 9pm ET on the Shudder TV and AMC+ TV feeds and will be available on demand on both platforms the following Sunday, September 1.
Host Joe Bob Briggs and trusty righthand Darcy the Mail Girl will bring a few surprise guests to stay up “all night to party like jungle animals for The Last Drive-In: Nightmareathon, a dusk-to-dawn marathon event celebrating 6 years and 6 seasons with 6 killer movies… just like the devil intended.”
As usual, don’t expect to know what the marathon’s lineup entails, but you can follow the horror host on socials for hints leading up to the event on August 30.
On The Last Drive-In, Briggs, the world’s foremost drive-in movie critic hosts eclectic horror movies, talking about their merits, histories and significance to genre cinema. Fans can watch new episodes of season six every other Friday night on Shudder and AMC+. The Last Drive-In: Nightmareathon will cap off season six in a way only The Last Drive-In crew knows how, with a special six-movie marathon.
The mutant family will be happy to know that Briggs plans to continue hosting and writing about movies for as long as he’s able to. Briggs recently told Bloody Disgusting in an interview, “I don’t see retiring from this or retiring from writing. I’m primarily a writer, and the good thing about writing is long after they don’t wanna see you on TV anymore you can still write.
“The difference today, though, is I was pretty much the only guy doing genre films when I started. Now, there are academics that do it. There are entire books written about Dario Argento and Tobe Hooper and even lesser names than those, and there are, of course, a massive number of websites, including your own, so that when something comes out today, there’s immediately a hundred reviews of it; whereas in 1982, I was sort of the only guy, because the movies were considered disposable trash. So I have been surpassed in my deep knowledge because who can keep up with all that? It’s impossible!”
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs is produced by Matt Manjourides and Justin Martell and directed by Austin Jennings.