The Big Picture
Joe Bob Briggs will be hosting a new season of The Last Drive-In on Shudder, presenting over thirty horror movies. The new season will have a different format, featuring one movie per episode and airing bi-weekly, but it will be a longer season overall. Joe Bob Briggs is a well-known horror host with a long history in the genre, and his show on Shudder has become a popular feature on the streamer.
Joe Bob Briggs is headed to another season at The Last Drive-In. The Shudder horror host will present over thirty movies in his sixth season at the streamer. Briggs has hosted The Last Drive-In at the streamer with sidekick Darcy the Mail Girl (Diana Prince) since 2018, presenting a variety of horror movies, both infamous and all-but-forgotten.
The new season will differ in a few ways from the previous ones; while previous episodes usually consisted of double features, the new season will typically feature one movie per episode. Additionally, while previous seasons consisted of new episodes every Friday for a few weeks at a time, the series will now be bi-weekly, airing every other Friday, but the season will be much, much longer; Briggs plans to host more than thirty movies over the course of the season.
Says Briggs, “Shudder has graciously invited me to stick around for a sixth year, and I intend to use that kindness to haunt your phones, laptops and big-screen TVs with the most ghastly examples of perversity in the history of cinema. Plus a few old jokes and some celebrity guests who will still return our phone calls. Put it all together and it spells PARTAY.” The new season will premiere with two Halloween-themed episodes this October, with specials airing at Christmas and Valentine’s Day, while the new season proper will debut in March 2024.
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Who Is Joe Bob Briggs?
Joe Bob Briggs is the sex-and-violence-loving, bolo-tie-wearing redneck stage persona of writer John Bloom. A journalist in his native Texas, he began writing reviews of exploitation movies under the Joe Bob Briggs pen name, which proved popular enough that he adapted them for a stage act. He hosted Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater on The Movie Channel from 1986 to 1996, then moved to TNT to host Monstervision until 2000. As Bloom, he was a commentator on The Daily Show, and made cameo appearances in Great Balls of Fire!, Casino, and Face/Off. He was coaxed out of horror host retirement in 2018 to host a thirteen-film marathon of horror movies on Shudder; the marathon proved so popular that The Last Drive-In became a regular feature on the streamer. It has also spawned an annual convention and film festival, Joe Bob’s Jamboree. Lately, Briggs has hosted The Last Drive-In specials for AMC’s Walking Dead spinoffs Dead City and Daryl Dixon. He also served as a special guest judge for the Drag Race spinoff The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans.
The Last Drive-In will return in October with two Halloween-themed specials. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch Joe Bob Briggs’ promo for The Last Drive-In season 5 below – Joe Bob says check it out.