"Drive In" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Six months

Dating couple Kelley and Chad spend their night making out in Kelley's bed but it's apparent that Chad wants more. The couple, having been dating for six months, are at a crossroads. Chad, impatient with the rate at which their physical relationship is developing, asks Kelley for more while putting down her excuses. She claims that their relationship isn't a race though, and she asks him not to rush. Their night ends with the argument.

When Chad tells his friends at the skate park about the night, they say he's got it all wrong. Though he turned on Bob Ross to get Kelley into a good mood, he should have put on a horror movie instead. Girls, his friends note, are much more likely to sleep with him if they experience fear. It's just instinct.

Answer: Six

Chad's in luck, according to his friends, because despite the dreck that gets released in the horror genre (to fill up streaming sites), drive in movie theatres are making a big comeback, especially with a dedicated film crowd. In fact, a filmmaker has announced a rare screening of 'Rabbit, Rabbit', an infamous horror print, that was only ever shown once in 1986. The first time it was shown, six people were massacred at the theatre. The survivors claimed that the audience turned on itself, killing each other...because of the film. The director was hauled in front of Congress and went to prison.

But that's besides the point; they have a spare ticket for their vehicle, and if they go, they get to watch what is, allegedly, the most dangerous film ever made. It's the perfect scenario to get Kelley in the mood.

Answer: Tipper Gore

Chad watches old C-SPAN footage when he hears the story about 'Rabbit, Rabbit', mostly out of curiosity of its history, and what he finds is that Tipper Gore, concerned about violent content, brought the director, Larry Bitterman, to Washington D.C. to stand trial.

There, it was determined that all copies of his film be pulled from theatres and destroyed by the production company. Bitterman would subsequently lash out against Gore in front of the cameras, and that was what sent him to jail.

Answer: True

At school, Kelley's friend, Dee, helps her take a new perspective. If not now, when? It's likely Kelley's stuck-up attitude, her friend claims, that's preventing her from taking any relationships to the next level. When she speaks to Chad shortly after, he apologizes (even though she asks him not to) and he lets her know he has some special tickets to an event the next night. It's once in a lifetime, and how can she say no to that?

And it's with that that the couple drives out to the drive in. It's hard not to notice that something is amiss though; there's a woman picketing outside the gates, begging people not to watch the movie. She was there in 1986 and knows first-hand.

Answer: As soon as the film begins

As the cars take their places at the drive in, the proprietors worry about bad circumstances. The deliveryman who was expected to bring the film to the theatre is late, and they need the movie to air to ensure that they stay in the black. Refunds are not an option.

Kelley and Chad park their car and head to the concession stand, meeting with Chad's friends along the way. Kelley nabs some food with her friend, Dee. It's obvious that everyone's out looking for a good time.

As night falls, the film is delivered. Speaking to the protester at the gate, Chad is urged to break into the fuse box and cut the power (to save everyone). He doesn't take this seriously, however, even though the woman claims her boyfriend, who watched the film with her, was dead before it was half over; he was responsible for removing her eye, too, having pulled it out with his teeth. She has only one other warning: it starts right away. They can't look.

Answer: No

Before the movie begins, Kelley lets Chad know that he was wrong the other night. He thought they'd been together for six months, but the night of the screening was actually their anniversary. She promises him that they'll make it special. By the time the title card appears on screen, they aren't paying attention to what's being projected.

Most of the viewers, including the owner of the drive in, are enraptured by the images on the screen, however, and it quickly changes them.

The protester ascends to the projection room in an attempt to put an end to the film before it can take root, but she's soon caught but the owner who, enraged and transformed by the film, stabs her in the eye with a pair of scissors.

Answer: Foggy windows

Kelley and Chad, making out in Chad's car, are jolted back to reality by the noises outside their vehicle, and while they can't see out the windows, they are nonetheless worried by the sounds. They have no idea that the drive in around them is erupting into violent chaos, and they don't until someone breaks through their back window and begins to attack them.

Kelley is able to get behind the wheel of the car and drive out of their spot, but Dee, now a monster, leaps onto the hood of the vehicle and begins smashing his head through the windshield. Though he can't break through to attack Kelley and Chad inside, it's enough to block Kelley's view, and she crashes into the side of the concessions building. It totals the car, but it gives them the chance they need to get away while the mob pursues them. They barely make it into the projection room and lock the door, but the trouble doesn't end there; neither of them has a phone on them and the only landline is dead.

That's when the projectionist attacks, strangling Kelley while Chad is distracted by the film. He manages to break free of its bewitchment, knock the woman to the ground, and bash her to death with a film reel before knocking the surviving print of 'Rabbit, Rabbit' off the projector...before he falls unconscious.

Answer: A delivery slip

Chad awakens to find Kelley watching over him; she let him sleep after the traumatic events that knocked him out. She lets him know that he was asleep for a few hours. Since then, the sun has risen and most of the hysterical monsters fled away from the drive in, presumably to kill others in the area. Chad suggests they find a phone and call the cops, but Kelley worries that it means they'll just be interrogated while the crazies roam free. Aware that there's another screening elsewhere in the city, they decide to, instead, arm themselves and stop the next attack altogether. With a delivery slip on the film canister that contained 'Rabbit, Rabbit', they finally leave the projector room...

...and emerge into the aftermath. Bodies line the corridors of the building and the carnage tracks out into the theatre grounds. They have to face their own friends, transformed into monsters, but its a consequence of their circumstances.

Answer: A trailer

Chad and Kelley steal a truck from the drive in and make their way to the destination on the delivery slip, pulling up in front of a rusted trailer in the desert. Out front is a parked Rolls-Royce. Kelley loads her shotgun before they head inside. And who they find there is Larry Bitterman, the director of the film, revelling in the cinematic history he's been privileged to let the world experience. He's shocked to find survivors in his trailer but is quick to realize they never watched his movie. Instead, they can give him a first-hand account of his finest hour.

Bitterman claims that there is no second screening; they can't believe everything they read on the internet. 'Rabbit, Rabbit', in his mind, was a one-night screening. And with Kelley and Chad's testimonial of 100% efficacy in viewer transformation, he has little use knowing more; he accomplished true horror by having the film spill into real life.

Answer: On Netflix

Bitterman claims that back when "The Exorcist" was released, he was responsible for suggesting the subliminals-- the scenes inserted into the sixth reel that caused people to believe they were possessed. When "The Exorcist" failed to win Best Picture, he was persuaded to raise money for his own movie and 'Rabbit, Rabbit' was born. It was a film designed to trigger the fear center of the human brain. He studied intrusive memory formation and MK Ultra. He applied everything he learned. In post-production he gave his editor notes and came back to find her mutilating her own hands in a film cutter. When he found a distributor, the movie opened one time; six people died. Shortly after that, Tipper Gore had his movie destroyed and he went to jail for fifteen years. When he got out, he applied his revisions to a work print and the rest is history.

Kelley shoots Bitterman in the leg and the teens force him to hand over the obvious spare copy hiding in the trailer. Before they leave, they set the reels ablaze and leave Bitterman to die in the fire.

Kelley and Chad return home and head straight to the bedroom. They don't notice the trending new release on Netflix-- 'Rabbit Rabbit' has debuted on the streaming service.