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      Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

      1959 1h 5m Horror List
      Reviews 33% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Lois Cavendish (Jody Fair) hangs out at a nearby soda shop with her drag racing club. But when she learns the shop might be closed, she calls her wealthy aunt, Anatasia (Dorothy Neumann), for help. Anatasia offers the club the chance to use her mansion as their headquarters -- but with one strange condition: They have to scare away the ghost that haunts her home. When the club decides to throw an all-night monster mash party at the mansion, it becomes clear that something is amiss. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews This one stinks even for AIP. Rated: D May 13, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The worst horror flick ever, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member A super fun feel good movie. This movie has it all- rock-n-roll, dragsters, rat-rods, pretty girls, a haunted mansion and a ghost. There are the good restless kids and a group of "bad" restless kids for some added conflict, tension and drama. The epitome of a 50's/60's teen flick. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Not a ghost story or horror movie - it's a 50's rock & roll drag racing haunted house comedy. And they don't come much better than this. Was kind of surprised it wasn't produced by Roger Corman. THAT would have been icing on the cake. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A group of hot rodding kids are kicked out of their clubhouse but find a new place to hangout when a member suggests her family's abandoned mansion (who doesn't have one of those, right?). When the group gets there, they clean up the place then put ona Halloween party. A rival hot-rodding gang arrives ready for a fight or a race or something, but they decide to be chill and all party together not knowing there lurks a monster within the abode. Really silly with a ton of hip lingo from that period. Also, GODDAMN Amelia was HOTT! A full extra star for that! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member To be sure, this is a terrible movie, but it's also an hilarious time capsule of fashion, music, lingo, and cars of the era. Now don't get me wrong, this film is about as much an accurate document of late 1950s youth culture as 'Saved by the Bell" is for the 1990s, but I would say both are fun exaggerated representations of the popular youth culture of their times. "Dragstrip" follows a group of teenage hot roders who decide it's a good idea to hold a party at a haunted house. Basically, this is a Beach Party-type of youth film that replaces surfboards with hot rods, although Frankie and Annette are replaced with no-name actors (though I did kind of crush on the nerdy girl with glasses, Sanita Pelkey) and Beach Party's relatively famous musical acts are replace with no-name musical acts. However this film does pre-date the Beach Party films and is something of a dry run for American International Pictures in making light youth oriented musical comedies that would later become the highly successful, if very corny, Frankie and Annette films. The script here though is really, really bad, but it does have some hilariously "hip" lingo, including these exchanges: "Do you have a man yet?" "I have one nibbling" "Better land him wile the bait is still fresh." or "He's got static in his attic - completely zonked!" "I'll have to include a dictionary with this story." There drag races, pajama parties, rock n roll, fighting, and monsters (even if the monster is AIP being cheap and reusing the costume from "The Astounding She Creature"). Overall, if you enjoy campy AIP Beach Party-type of films, you'll likely enjoy "Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow" which, to be clear, is not a good film, but one I still enjoyed. And to just prove how "hip" this film is, instead of the film ending with a "The End" title card, it instead ends with "The End-est Man" on it's title card. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Wasn't my cup of tea. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Lois Cavendish (Jody Fair) hangs out at a nearby soda shop with her drag racing club. But when she learns the shop might be closed, she calls her wealthy aunt, Anatasia (Dorothy Neumann), for help. Anatasia offers the club the chance to use her mansion as their headquarters -- but with one strange condition: They have to scare away the ghost that haunts her home. When the club decides to throw an all-night monster mash party at the mansion, it becomes clear that something is amiss.
      Director
      William J. Hole Jr.
      Producer
      Lou Rusoff
      Screenwriter
      Lou Rusoff
      Production Co
      Alta Vista Productions
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 5, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 5m
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