Today, we talk about another find thanks to the Roku channel Bizarre TV.
From director Brett Piper, whose website says he’s been “makin’ movies since the early 80s” (literally, it says “makin'”), comes a little film called Drainiac. What is kinda nice about this movie, and some other things that Piper’s website talks about, is that this does seem to capture a feel of a bygone age of B-Movies. In some ways, I suppose it does have some of the feel of the drive-in horror movies that were around before my time and in my youth of the early 80s. In other ways, it resembles that “regional” film making appeal that was used often in the 70s – this would have been when small, independent movies, usually starring no one of consequence, would get made in a state or region of the country for the sole purpose of only ever playing in the local theaters or drive-ins.
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