Joe Bob's Last Drive-In opens Savage Summer with I Spit on Your Grave

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Horror host Joe Bob Briggs and cohost Darcy opened The Last Drive-In's Savage Summer by screening 1978's I Spit on Your Grave. Viewers noted Joe Bob delivered a vigorous defense of horror and provided running commentary, with multiple posts calling the film "transgressive" and "essential" while warning it is a difficult, trigger-heavy watch. Several people said they were watching for Joe Bob even if they dislike the movie, and some reported it was their first time seeing the 1978 film. The episode paired I Spit on Your Grave with the over-the-top splatter film Tokyo Gore Police as a follow-up, which viewers described as a rough but tonally different counterbalance. Drive-In Totals for the night drew direct comparisons to the program's previous Mad God drive-in event. The show closed with the usual signoffs and viewers noting they would return for future Last Drive-In events.

C. Robert Cargill

@crobertcargill.bsky.social

Joe Bob’s critical defense of horror as a genre tonight needs to be dropped on YouTube and quoted as scripture.

1244h ago

Dave Collins Jr3

Amen!🙏 Horror is always everyone’s favorite genre to hate. Meanwhile, it’s always pushing the edge and ever-evolving!

🌞🌞🌞 Adam Jay 🍉🍉🍉1

Man, he rocks so much

The Mutant Fam

@themutantfam.bsky.social

"Transgressive" and "Bullsh*t" are perfect words for #ISpitOnYourGrave 1978. Trigger warnings, yes, but this film is FAR more interesting and essential than you may think. Love Joe Bob finally gets to show it. This is a must-watch. Not an easy watch. But a must-watch. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam -SMF

334h ago

Joe Lynch

@thejoelynch.bsky.social

Oh BABY, get the splash zone tarps up and put your good taste to bed. @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @themutantfam.bsky.social @Shudder.com #JoeBobsSavageSummer #TheLastDriveIn

291h ago

Brit (she/her)👹

@babysip.bsky.social

Tonight’s Joe Bob feature is I Spit On Your Grave (1978) 😮‍💨 #thelastdrivein Good evening, #mutantfam it’s been a hot minute! Glad to join y’all 😌 @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

254h ago

Paul [REDACTED] D. Cᴇʟᴇʙʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ 300K+ Yᴇᴀʀs Oꜰ Iɴʜᴜᴍᴀɴɪᴛʏ™1

Weird fact: that's Demi Moore in the poster.

Humanist Son of a Preacher Man1

Oooh. That’s one I’ll pass on. Least favorite sub-genre of thriller. The only one I’d ever watch again is Revenge.

Bill-Bo1

A brutal film! Just brutal. Brutal like Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. 😮 But it is so good. 😆

Ashley ✨🌙

@barelyashley.bsky.social

I’m sure this is just a nice normal movie about a woman in a pretty dress. Right? ….Right? #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #ISpitOnYourGrave

214h ago

Jeff-Zilla

@jeffzillapcp.bsky.social

Remember what Joe Bob says...'When they like it, it's adventure and romance when they dont it's sex and violence' #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @themutantfam.bsky.social

134h ago

Goblin King Joshua

@goblinkingjosh.bsky.social

Is there literally no score at all to this movie? #TheLastDriveIn #ISpitOnYourGrave

194h ago

Michael Campbell1

None, and I’ve seen early talkies with less sound effects than #ISpitOnYourGrave #MutantFam

Tom Servo

@angelus04.bsky.social

Ok this nerdy guy is giving me the creeps I am probably right to feel that way #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #ISpitOnYourGrave

164h ago

AJ MacReady

@ajmacready.bsky.social

seeing a lotta folks watching I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE for the first time on #TheLastDriveIn tonight best of luck to all! all these years down the road, the first-time reactions I see usually tend to be "that was somehow not as bad as I thought it would be yet I'm also still pretty fucked up right now"

184h ago

John Reid Adams

@whatsinthepodcast.bsky.social

#MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #ISpitOnYourGrave can we point out how Mier Zarchi is not making this look sexy or hot he is letting you know this is fucking awful and in all likelihood this is the cliff notes version of what victims actually endure

133h ago

GenXNerd77

@genxnerd77.bsky.social

The unfortunate thing about revenge movies - the thing that drives theneed for revenge has to happen Amd these scumbags aren't hiding who they really are in the slightest #TheLastDriveIn #ISpitOnYourGrave

123h ago

🪦 Tombs 🪦

@tombs237.bsky.social

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE Dang! This flick. There was a point in the '90s and '00s where some films were a rite of passage for horror fans. There was this, and there was Cannibal Holocaust. I saw them both long ago. These are 'I need to shower to feel clean again' flicks. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

104h ago

Goregirl

@goregirlsdungeon.bsky.social

Now watching… Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy on The Last Drive-In… Savage Summer!

144h ago

James Swift

@jamesxswift86.bsky.social

One of the things that makes #ISpitOnYourGrave so unnerving is that it has NO music in it whatsoever. It makes an already realistic movie even more realistic and doesn't afford you the illusion at all. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn @themutantfam.bsky.social

134h ago

Kelston is in B/Cult movie mode!📼🥷👽🧌📼

@kelston.bsky.social

I am now watching I Spit On Your Grave (1978) on The Last Drive-in Savage Summer Special on @shudder.com, and this is my first time watching this movie. #Horror365Challenge: #79/365 #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

An alternative poster of I Spit On You Grave (1978)

134h ago

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