The second season of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs won't reach the Shudder streaming service until sometime next year, but we're getting some extra Joe Bob to hold us over while we wait.
Returning to the marathon format that he got his Shudder start with last year, Joe Bob has announced that he will be hosting a triple feature later this month. This special event is called Joe Bob's Halloween Hootenanny, and it will be streaming live on Shudder beginning at 9pm Eastern on October 25th.
Joe Bob says,
As we were preparing for Season 2 of The Last Drive-In, we unearthed three forgotten gems that are all Halloween-themed and decided it was time for a Halloween Hootenanny. Or maybe I'm lying about that and we're programming three iconic Halloween favorites. Or maybe we're counter-programming with flicks that have absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. The great thing about spending October 25 with us is that, as Forrest Gump says, you never know what you're gonna get. What we can promise is a) I will be ridiculously nerdy about horror, and b) Darcy the Mail Girl will probably disagree with me. It's great to be back. I missed Shudder and the Shudder faithful."
In case you've been missing out on the Joe Bob action Shudder has been providing, here's some background info:
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs began in July 2018 as a one time, dusk-to-dawn-to-dusk, 13-movie marathon. It was intended to serve as a curtain call for Briggs, who first came to prominence hosting B-movies on The Movie Channel and TNT in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The marathon proved so popular that Shudder brought Briggs back — first for two, four-film specials, Thanksgiving Day’s Dinners of Death and December’s A Very Joe Bob Christmas — and, in March 2019, for a nine-week season of The Last Drive-In Friday night double features. The show’s hashtag, #TheLastDriveIn, trended on Twitter during each of its live premieres as fans enjoyed the show together in real time.
I'll take all the Joe Bob I can get, so I'll be watching the Halloween Hootenanny for sure. If you're not able to watch it live on October 25th, that's fine, because Joe Bob's shows are always archived and available for viewing through Shudder afterward. You just want to get to them as quickly as you can, because if Shudder loses the streaming rights to a movie the episode where Joe Bob hosted that movie also gets removed from the service.
The Last Drive-In and Joe Bob's Halloween Hootenanny are produced by Matt Manjourides and Justin Martell, and directed by Austin Jennings.