So much average

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow The worst part of haunting the highway is all the distracted drivers crowding your curve. Fortunately, this horror-comedy occurs when drag racing produced the most road ghosts. When a gang of teenage hot rodders are evicted from their soda shop hangout and forced to find new digs, lead foot member Lois (Jody Fair) volunteers her rich aunt's (Dorothy Neumann) estate as their new clubhouse. Her aunt agrees only if they evict the ghost haunting it. To exercise it, they hold a rocking costume party that culminates in a girl-on-girl drag race to the death. A sequel to 1958's Hot Rod Gang, this Halloween themed follow-up released a year later is light on actual drag races - and is missing the rockabilly interludes that made the original really swing - but what it does have is twice the zaniness. Luckily, most people who become ghosts nowadays have serving and DJing skills. Yellow Light

This isn't a drag-racing movie. Nor is it a ghost movie. It's not even a rock 'n' roll movie. This is some kind of Eisenhower-era fantasia about white suburbia where the kids are so white, so square, so dull, so clean-cut, so boring it makes Happy Days look like a Quentin Tarantino movie by comparison. Why is the old guy hanging around so much? Is he writing some sort of feature-length Sports Illustrated piece on hot-rodding? Jeez, and the parents watching over the party. If my parents stood over my party like that I'd kill myself in a car crash. And what's with the daughter slinking over the couch and draping her legs over daddy's knees. Yikes. I was hoping a black guy would make a cameo and we'd get to see one of the characters sh-- their pants in panic.

I guess my brain removal has finally kicked in, but I enjoyed this slice of teen-age nonsense. The r&r seldom stops along with the twirling teens catching the beat. Add the humorous asides from an array of eccentric characters, including a nerdy duo, a wacky spinster with a winged hat, and a parrot from heck. Sure there's no plot, just a blast in a haunted house with a monster in need of employment. But it's a good chance to catch up with the lingo and styles of the day. Of course, for some of us, it's also a tour down memory lane. The cast may be no-names, still they do well enough, even the killjoy dad (Smith). And, oh yeah, catch how the canny producers loaded the first part with dragsters and road racing. That's a good action hook, but turns out to be different from the rest. Then too, I'll bet Tommy Ivo's dragster he so proudly shows off was really his own since he was a dedicated drag racer and designer (IMDB). Anyhow, give your brain a rest and join the nonsensical fun of drive-in 1959.

This movie has everything it takes to make a great terrible movie: Bad acting, 50's genre, 50's hot rods, no continuity. I love this movie. Only problem is I've fallen asleep 3 times trying to follow it to it's end, and I've never seen who the monster is. I can hardly wait until it comes around again on Friday or Saturday night TV. I'll try again.