Drive Thru

Drive Thru (2007)

At Hella Burger, It Won't Be The Food That Kills You... But You'll Wish It Did.

A high-school student must save townspeople from a murderous clown who works at a fast-food place.

Date of release
2007-05-29
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (156)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Horror, Thriller, Comedy
Director
Brendan Cowles, Shane Kuhn

Casting

Interesting facts

Drive-Thru is a 2007 American dark comedy slasher film directed and written by Brendan Cowles and Shane Kuhn, starring Leighton Meester and Nicholas D'Agosto. It is set in Orange County, California and involves an evil clown as a serial killer.

Production

Drive-Thru was written and directed by Brendan Cowles and Shane Kuhn. Cowles and Kuhn were two of the original organizers of the Slamdance Film Festival. Shane Kuhn received a master's degree in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, but was relatively new to Hollywood, having previously written novels.

The writers of this film paid homage multiple times to John Carpenter's Halloween. Leighton Meester's character's name Mackenzie Carpenter is a clear reference to John Carpenter, in addition to a famous line spoken by Jamie Lee Curtis in the film ("Go down to the Mackenzie's and call the police.") Additionally when Fisher comes into the room, there is a point-of-view shot which bears a heavy resemblance to the intro of Halloween, and he is then s…

Drive-Thru was shot in Los Angeles, California. Vincent E. Toto was the cinematographer. The year before, he was the cinematographer for another horror film, Dark Ride, which received a similar audience response. The camera used for this film was a Panavision Panaflex Gold II.

Editing was done by Daniel R. Padgett, who has worked in the editorial department of many films of different genres, including The Royal Tenenbaums and Space Jam.

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