I finally saw this today on a plane.
It was fun and kind of scary but nothing really bad happened, which I didn’t mind.
shareI saw this when it came out at a Drive in theater and it was quite the ride. For me it has stood the test of time, and what's weird is that Santa Cruz (Santa Carla) is still filled with creepy drug fiends last time I went there in 2019
shareA drive-in, wow! Did you have to hook up a speaker to the door or did you tune in on the radio?
I’ve never been To Santa Cruz. I’d like to check it out though. They really captured the feel of the place in the movie.
Nope, believe it or not they were "Hi Tech" and you could hook it up to your radio where it was channeled thru an FM setting, so a lot of patrons came with their massive car surround systems and blasted the movie
shareHow fun. They should reopen drive ins now with all this stupid social distancing.
shareI used to live in Santa Cruz - check it out sometime. Great town. They filmed a lot of the movie at The Boardwalk, which is still a big draw. The bridge they are dangling off of is right next to the Boardwalk. You can walk across it.
The comic store they filmed at was really cool and in downtown - not a set. However, that building got leveled in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and they had to move.
Santa Cruz is definitely a weird place. There is a lot of money there, but a ton of homeless, drug abuse, and gangs too. If you go up into the mountains a few minutes outside of town you'll be surrounded by mountain folk, extremists, and hippies. Go twenty minutes south and you'll be in Watsonville, a farming community but also home to the Norteños gang. Go two minutes north up the coast of the Boardwalk and you'll be surrounded by million-dollar homes. Yet Santa Cruz somehow is a fairly safe place and everyone seems to get along okay for the most part.