Drive Thru

Plot synopsis:
Brandon (Edward DeRuiter), Tony (Haven Lamoureux) and their girlfriends, Brittany (Jessica Landon) and Tiffany (Nicole Cavazos) arrive at the fast food restaurant "Hella Burger". Upon placing an order at the drive-thru, the group are introduced to the restaurant's mascot, Horny the Clown (voiced by Gordon Clapp) via intercom. The group is continuously insulted after Brandon mouths off to him, causing a furious Tony to enter. He searches the restaurant and hears a commotion coming from the kitchen. After looking around in the walk-in cooler, Horny suddenly jumps out and attacks him across the room before dunking him face first in the deep fryer. Brandon soon enters, only to find Tony dead in the deep fryer much to his horror before he is attacked and murdered by Horny with a meat cleaver. Horny proceeds outside and brutally murders Brittany and Tiffany when they discover the bodies of their boyfriends in the backseat.
Meanwhile, Mackenzie (Leighton Meester) is having a house party with her boyfriend Fisher (Nicholas D'Agosto), and friends Val (Sita Young), Van (Penn Badgley) and Starfire (Rachael Bella). The group find a ouija board and decide to ask it what their future will hold, to which the ouija board spells out "N1KLPL8", a message that is unclear until the next day when the group see a news bulletin, showing the message is the license plate on Brandon's car. The following day at school, Val is ambushed by Horny in the locker room. Mackenzie complains that someone stole her camera at the party, but after school the janitor, Eddie (Sean Whalen), gives her the camera.
Mackenzie stays behind to develop the photos, and discovers that they show the deaths of the four murdered teenagers. Horny chases Mackenzie into the gymnasium, where she finds Val's head has been placed in a modified microwave, that when turned on causes her head to explode. Horny chases Mackenzie throughout the school, where she finds Lenny has been hanged, before bumping into a police officer, who fails to find any bodies. Mackenzie is taken down to the police station with her Mom, Marcia (Melora Hardin) and Dad, Bill (Paul Ganus) to be questioned by Detective Brenda Chase (Lola Glaudini) and Detective Dwayne Crockers (Larry Joe Campbell). The two detectives don't believe Mackenzie's story however, and suspect Lenny as the killer.
The next day, the detectives visit Jack Benjamin (John Gilbert), the owner of Hella Burger, who proves to be no help in solving the case. That night, Mackenzie and Fisher get ready to work at a carnival's haunted house. As they work, they have an argument with Chad (Tyler King) and Tina (Maliabeth Johnson), before they go into the ride. Suddenly, the lights are switched off and Chad is decapitated, before Tina is stabbed to death by Horny. Mackenzie and Starfire enter the haunted house after it breaks down. They find Fisher in a state of shock after witnessing the murders.
Mackenzie goes to visit Fisher in the hospital with Marcia. Mackenzie becomes annoyed with Marcia as she believes she is hiding something from her, as all the murdered teenagers are the children of her old high-school friends. Detective Chase overhears this and questions Tina's father, Bert (Robert Curtis Brown).
As Mackenzie arrives home, Marcia tells her that when she was young, she and her friends accidentally murdered Archie Benjamin (Van De La Plante), Jack Benjamin's son, on his 18th birthday at Hella Burger, and now his vengeful spirit has returned from the dead to get revenge. Mackenzie and Fisher are next attacked, resulting in Mackenzie being knocked unconscious and Fisher being cornered. Fisher manages to unmask Horny, who makes Fisher's eyes go bloody red after making eye contact with him before hurling him through a window. Meanwhile, Detective Chase and Detective Crockers come to the house and find Jack Benjamin behind his own bed, trying to hide from Archie.
Mackenzie wakes up in Hella Burger, tied to a chair and surrounded by her murdered friends. A birthday cake is in front of her, as it is now her 18th birthday. Horny appears and reveals his murderous plan before dousing her with gasoline and holds a lit candle close to her face, about to repeat what Marcia did to him years ago just as Marcia herself arrives just in time to save her daughter. Marcia shoots the clown in the mouth but to no effect as he reemerges and pins Marcia to the floor. Mackenzie drinks a bottle of whiskey she had earlier. Horny torments her with another candle while cackling at her face to face, unaware that Mackenzie has whiskey in her mouth. She defeats him by spraying whiskey onto the flame, setting him on fire. Mackenzie and Marcia escape as Horny burns to death.
Mackenzie and Marcia rush to the hospital to see Fisher whose eyes are still bloodshot, revealing that Archie has possessed Fisher's body. Mackenzie goes in to see him only to find the window wide open and his discarded clothes thrown outside on the ground, implying that the nightmare is not over. Detective Crockers places an order at the drive thru and Horny jumps onto the hood of his patrol car to kill him through the windshield.

Tags: revenge, humor, violence

Review:
'Drive Thru' is a very deranged comedy that seems like it was directed by some pothead like Danny Leiner.Surprisingly, it's not a bad movie.It has it's share of blood, gore, violence, and what horror movie like this one wouldn't have any humor?It's like 'Eight Legged Frieks' and 'Tremors', except the killer is not a giant spider or an underground worm.I watched this movie for free on Fearnet On Demand a year ago just to see if it was any good.For 83 minutes, I sat through which appeared to be a dumb horror movie, yet a somewhat smart comedy.If you enjoy movies about killer clowns who butcher people, then 'Drive Thru' is on the menu.Would you like some blood with your order?.
This is my first review on IMDb, okay here goes: So this movie is about a seemingly supernatural killer clown, the mascot of the extremely popular local burger joint (Hella Burger) he murders teenagers all of whom have some sort of connection with the main character Mackenzie.
Your generic, run of the mill, horror movie plot - dumb partying teens, the evil clown, and that one dude from Heroes that I hate.
My suspicions turned out to be unfounded, though, as the film was actually surprisingly good.It's been a long time since I've heard a movie soundtrack where the bulk of the songs were not only performed by people born in the last 20 years, but they were performed well.
You can have a pretty mediocre film and add a great soundtrack and it ends up being quite watchable.Some of the acting is a little wooden and the plot is almost laughably cliché.
The editing was creative, especially the ramping of the kill scenes/killer's movements for increased dramatic effect.Overall, this movie portrayed something that seems to be in short supply on celluloid these days- youthful exuberance.
Mackenzie receives messages about her close friends while they are murdered by Horny The Clown, the symbol of the Hella-Burger fasts food.On the eve of her eighteenth birthday and after the death of a couple of friends, Mackenzie realizes that all of them are connected to a dark event in the past of her mother Marcia Carpenter (Melora Hardin).
Further, she will be in danger on the day of her birthday."Drive-Thru" is a gore unfunny comedy too silly for a horror movie using a clown that is a parody of Ronald McDonald.
This B-movie has a couple of good jokes, like "fast food kills", but does not work well.
Two white boys talking like they were ganstas turns me off.However, it really turned out to be a good movie.First, the lines throughout the film were really funny.
They referenced a lot of things that were familiar and were delivered spot on by some really good acting featuring Leighton Meester, Nicholas D'Agosto, Lola Glaudini from "Criminal Minds", Melora Hardin, Trudy from "Monk, and my personal favorite, Larry Joe Campbell from "According to Jim", as Detective Crackers.Secondly, it had a really good story that made a lot of sense.It wasn't particularly gory, but had plenty of blood.
One of the best things about this movie is the seamlessly endless amount of minor characters that serve no purpose but to be deep fried and macheted by Horny the Clown.
It looked like something out of Saw. This isn't the next Scream, but it's a fun flick for a Friday night with a couple of friends and a lot of beer.Characters - 20/30 Story - 13/30 Atmosphere- 3/15 Effectiveness - 13/15 Excitement - 7/10Total - 56/100.
The plot is derivative of approximately fifteen other early 80's slasher films, the soundtrack is nefarious (for the last time: heavy-metal and suspense rarely mix!), the characters are insupportable stereotypes and the maniacal killer (yet another evil clown) is the complete opposite of menacing, with his lame one-liners and overly flamboyant outfit.
The serial killer-clown continues his murder spree in the local high school, but his teenage victims  and particularly their parents  appear to have something in common, namely a dark secret about a prank that horribly ran out of control and killed a nerdy kid on his 18th birthday party.
Not very natural.Morgan Spurlock (of "Fast Food Nation" fame) is the tiny wink of super cool in this teenage slaughter-fest, and "Jan" from "The Office" probably has more acting chops than anyone.All in all, the story is more or less slightly above standard for a 2000-oughts movie, the B&G is pretty good, and Ouija boards aside, was pretty resourceful, if not just stealing stuff (see above) I'm a generous girl (surprise!) who loves cheap gore, so if you can watch this one for free (like I did) do it to it!.
The acting was pretty bad, the gore effects were not great, the story was lacking and the music was terrible, especially during the action sequences.But, I kinda enjoyed myself watching it.
And the concept of a killer clown, though a bit cliché, is still pretty funny.This film is pretty bad, but it's entertaining if you can ignore the flaws, just sit back and laugh at the unfortunate teens..
I guess the moral of the movie is that fast food can kill you (yeah I know how bad that joke was, sorry) It's a little rough around the edges, but what it does well, it does REALLY WELL.
I have been putting off seeing this movie as it sound a bit poor but I am clad that I decided too check IT out as I do enjoy slasher movies like this.Plot:Horror gets Super Sized when Horny The Clown, the demonic mascot of "Hella-Burger," starts slashing Orange County teenagers with his meat cleaver from Hell.I really enjoyed watching this movie very much, I really like the killer Clown mask that was really creepy and bit scary However the killer voice did sound a lot like Ghost-face from scream series.I also liked some of the gory death scenes in this movie and they did make some of the deaths scenes really funny at same time and acting is okay for a movie like this.This movie is a lot of fun to watch with friends if you are staying in on a Saturday night.I going to give this movie 6 out of 10.
She is so into the movie.(I know they are having so much fun) Gossip Girl star, Leighton Meester, she is really shocking for me such as being in this kind of a movie and I think she is a secret gem like Ed Westwick(it was an compliment).
Do you know when you start watching a movie and in the first 4/5 minutes you start asking yourself: "why doesn't it end right now?" Yes that's right, this film "stunk" from the very first minute The psycho character is ridiculous!
I'm sure ur very impressed and extremely anxious to see this great film but hold ur horses :) Drive-Thru is a real test of character because it takes a real man/woman to see this movie till the end, where, like all great movies, it leaves room for a sequel.
I wish I was kidding when that opening sounded exactly like what the writer was ordering while driving through a fast food joint one day and came up with the (ha) original idea for 'Drive Thru.' Incoherent scenes  the lead's birthday was to be the next day, but ended up two days later, horrible acting and so-called fast-food jokes, a laugh-out-loud 80's dressed clown and awful music played while the Freddy Krueger copycat attacked.
The slash-metal music that accompanies the kills is different than other slasher movie music, and in a good way.
Good music, plenty blood and gore, hot girls, descent acting by the front actors, a little humor, and a bad@ss clown make for an enjoyable slasher movie..
'Drive Thru' is one of the best horror,comedy I ever saw.The killer has really cool design the plot is decent the acting could be better but it's not that bad..
As he friends are being gruesomely murdered, a teen learns they're being targeted by a local fast-food clown mascot as revenge against a prank done by their parents and must stop the rampage.Overall this wasn't all that bad of a slasher effort.
There's also a pretty decent backstory here for this one that culminates in a classic slasher story of a prank-gone-wrong coming back to haunt the next generation and the scene to showcase that is a rather enjoyable sequence that plays to genre convictions quite well, as does the graphic kills and creepy clown mask for the killer.
Drive-Thru is a horror film that feels like a broken-down mess of what was originally shaping out to be a great film, until bad editing decisions and long, drawn-out scenes of phony character interest corrupted the final product.
The film takes place in a sleepy, Conservative town (one of those films that annoyingly tries to slam and critique one political party over the other for no good reason), which includes a Hella Burger restaurant, a fast-food chain represented by a clown named Horny.
Both Mackenzie and her boyfriend Fisher (Leighton Meester and Nicholas D'Agosto, who both went on to do films far more interesting than this one) decide to try and stop the vicious murderer as he savagely maims and kills his victims, cleverly avoiding detectives as well.Undoubtedly the most entertaining soul in this film, even more-so than Horny, is Detective Dwayne Crockers (Larry Joe Campbell), a husky, bumbling detective who is the butt of almost every joke he's involved with.
Single out a humorous cameo by Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock and a moderately enjoyable killer and there's little else to praise about Drive-Thru, a film that could've been at least bumped up to tolerable quality had the editing and pacing been taken into consideration.Starring: Leighton Meester, Nicholas D'Agosto, Lola Glaudini, Larry Joe Campbell, Melora Hardin, Paul Ganus, and Morgan Spurlock.
Basically this movie is like if Nightmare on Elm Street with its storyline, cracks from Freddy, and creative killing were mashed into a blender with Ronald McDonald and stoner teens.
It is funny and if you can look past all the bad things it really is a decent comedy slash horror flick.
Overall, I think there were some good and bad parts, a great movie if you have some spare time on your hands and if you don't take it too seriously.My Rating:7/10.
Drive Thru (2007) story revolves around a high school student who were a chased by a clown murderer and became victim of continuous murder of people connected to her.Leighton Meester really did well in this movie, the acting, the different approached, I did saw Mackenzy Carpenter in this film not Blaire Waldorf.She contribute a lot in this film, she carried this film for people to watched.
Same old flick.I don't think there's no point or connection why the killer giving clues to Mackenzy, how are they connected.The suspense wasn't thrilling enough except for those who were Coulrophobia, it might be effective.I must also say the script was poor.Its good that they main cast Leighton Meester.All praises goes to her.+++.
In addition, most of the kills take place off-screen, and at first glance the story is also highly unimaginative - a teenage girl called Mackenzie Carpenter ('Mac' to her friends) discovers that pupils at her high school are being killed by a maniac who's dressed as Horny the Clown, the mascot of the Hellaburger fast-food restaurant chain (he looks like the secret love child of Ronald McDonald and Satan).So far, so clichéd.
How does one go about making a slasher movie where the killer is dressed up in a fast food clown mascot costume?
Given that premise, you would think such a movie would make light of it's plot and not take itself too seriously.With "Drive Thru" it begins with a light, albeit horror inspired, tone with a group of idiot wannabe gangsters getting hacked up by a killer whose name screams satire: Horny the Clown.
Drive-Thru is set in the small American town of Blanco Carne where local resident Jack Benjamin (John Gilbert) has built up a chain of fast food restaurants named 'Hella-Burger', however the story is tinged with tragedy as his son who played Horny the Clown in all the TV commercials & promotions was killed in a terrible accident some years ago on his 18th birthday.
However it seems like Horny has come back from the dead to avenge his untimely death at the hands of a prank gone bad by killing the teenage children of those responsible, or maybe it's some nut-case just dressed up as Horny the Clown?
The script is basically a rip-off of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1983) as a group of parents past indiscretion's come back to haunt them & take revenge on their children so in that respect it's not original & is pretty predictable, then there's Horny the Clown killer who is indeed a pretty cool killer but the whole twisted killer clown thing was done with far more imagination & wit in Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) & I'd like to see anyone try & argue with that.
The acting is alright.Drive-Thru seems to have had a lot of positive comments on the IMDb, I'm not really sure why as this is a pretty routine, predictable, virtually bloodless to get an 'R' rating, filled with comedy that isn't funny slasher film that has a decent killer but very little else.
I don't always like comedy and horror mixed but this one did make me laugh hard and I liked the story.It had some really good kills and some hysterical original humour.The whole revenge storyline is old but a good and effective one.It reminded me a lot of Nightmare on Elm street how a bunch of parents killed a guy and he comes back from the dead to exact revenge on the kids of the parents.Of course Nightmare on Elm street was more of a horror.I hated the first scene of drive-thru.I cannot stand it when white kids act and talk like they're black,especially the well educated ones.Watching the way they were acting and talking made me cringe.
Really, the movie's plot overall is about some murderous clown killing certain people when they show up at his restaurant.
I rented this one based on largely marginally positive reviews i've read, expecting a fun little gory horror flick, what I got however was a pretty uninspired "Nightmare on Elm Street" retread, but with a clown fast food mascot.
Perhaps it would have helped the film if any of the characters were fleshed out in the least bit, but the way it is now the movie had me thinking about how much creepier it might have been if it was about a deranged Burger King mascot (YOU watch those commercials and play Sneak King and NOT be terrified).
everything looked good, besides a couple of the kills.i didn't like Horny the Clown's costume.
You have to like bad horror movies to enjoy this one.
But all in all it is a good movie with mindless killing and a killer Clown.
The fast-food theme is something that hasn't been used in horror movies until I saw Drive Thru.
It's B slasher flick about a make believe fast food icon Horny the Clown killing people.
I know the first deaths in a horror movie are meant to show how scary and dangerous the killer is, but you have no idea how much I hate gangsta people and how annoying these guys were from the moment we saw them on film.
First off, the acting was really bad in this movie, the scares were not there and they were childish, it was really funny and the plot was so predictable.
First off, the acting was really bad in this movie, the scares were not there and they were childish, it was really funny and the plot was so predictable.
Because it was accompanied by bad scares and really awful clichés, the gore had absolutely no real effect on me and just looked like red jam slathered on the walls or floor.As for the plot, well, like I said, it really did not have anything to do with an actual drive-thru and should have better off named "Restaurant" or "Horny the Clown." The plot could have been way better and should have just stayed a psychopathic killer hunting down beautiful girls with a predictable or semi-predictable twist, rather than something stupid and supernatural.
Because it was accompanied by bad scares and really awful clichés, the gore had absolutely no real effect on me and just looked like red jam slathered on the walls or floor.As for the plot, well, like I said, it really did not have anything to do with an actual drive-thru and should have better off named "Restaurant" or "Horny the Clown." The plot could have been way better and should have just stayed a psychopathic killer hunting down beautiful girls with a predictable or semi-predictable twist, rather than something stupid and supernatural.
This movie just has really bad acting, no real scares and a stale plot with predictable endings to add to it.
This movie just has really bad acting, no real scares and a stale plot with predictable endings to add to it.
And it's not just ' SOME OTHER MOVIE '!Mackenzie had a good life until 'HORNY THE CLOWN' interrupted it all!
Fast Food is bad like this movie!.
So in short this is movie is like fast Food, BAD FOR YOU!
Well, as I remember this movie, It's about some evil clown guy, who killed a bunch of this girls friends.
=]First off, I'd like to say, this movie, although is good, is very corny, and looses it's plot quite a few times.