Joe Bob Briggs’ 3rd Annual Drive-In Jamboree to be held in Las Vegas

Joe Bob Briggs can be internet hosting the three-day Drive-In Jamboree occasion in Las Vegas. Features a movie pageant and Sleepaway Camp marathon

Along with his Shudder collection The Final Drive-In and his touring comedy lecture How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, legendary film host / drive-in critic Joe Bob Briggs has additionally been internet hosting an occasion known as the “World Drive-In Film Competition and Jamboree” for the final couple years. This 12 months, the third annual Jamboree goes to held on the West Wind Las Vegas Drive-In from October sixth via the eighth – and tickets are actually on sale at THIS LINK!

The third annual Jamboree guarantees “three days of flicks, music, dwell on-stage programming, distributors, dusk-to-dawn sleepovers, tenting, barbecues, superstar friends, forged reunions, and group strolling excursions led by Joe Bob Briggs.” The West Wind Las Vegas Drive-In is “identified for its well-known neon archway entrance on Carey Avenue, that opened in 1966 with a Doris Day/Burt Lancaster double characteristic and finally expanded to 6 screens that may accommodate virtually a thousand automobiles.“

Right here’s some extra info: Based by Briggs in 2021, the Jamboree has beforehand been held on the Mahoning Drive-In in jap Pennsylvania and the Malco Summer time Drive-In in Memphis, however this 12 months’s Government Director Diana Prince, higher often known as “Darcy the Mail Lady” on the Shudder streaming collection “The Final Drive-In,” mentioned “It was time to carry the celebration out west and kick issues up a notch.” … “This can be a large drive-in, and that’s enabled us to slash admission costs for followers and have a a lot greater celebration within the metropolis identified for its events,” mentioned Prince. “We’ll be asserting friends and programming all through the summer time, however anybody buying tickets previous to June 22 will get an early-bird low cost price. We need to refill the West Wind with essentially the most fanatic drive-in lovers in America.”

A part of the occasion is the World Drive-In Film Competition. Submissions of style quick movies and options for the pageant are open from in the present day via July 14th. There’s no entry payment, and two profitable options and eight shorts will display screen on the West Wind on opening night time, Friday, October 6, and offered with Joe Bob’s coveted “Hubbie,” inscribed on a classic Chevy hubcap. Guidelines for the competitors and directions for submission will be discovered at THIS LINK.

Saturday would be the conventional dwell double characteristic within the fashion of “The Final Drive-In,” with superstar friends and ongoing commentary by Joe Bob and Darcy, however in line with the custom of the present, the film titles aren’t being introduced prematurely. Sunday is the Sleepaway Camp 40th Birthday Occasion with a forged and crew reunion of the 1983 cult traditional, adopted by a dusk-to-dawn marathon of all 4 “Sleepaway Camp” films.

I haven’t been capable of attend the earlier Jamborees and this 12 months it is going to be the identical story, however they sound like superior occasions.

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