Blu-ray Review: The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs

Meet America’s Foremost Drive in Film Expert, who has been slingin’ B-movie bullstuff longer than a possum’s been playin’ dead. With a brain chock full of useful-ish film trivia, this good ol’ boy serves up schlock and cult flicks with more laughs than a drunk skunk at a tailgater.

Mayhem
A virus spreads through an office complex, causing white-collar workers to act out their worst impulses.

Suitable Flesh
A psychiatrist becomes obsessed with one of her young patients, who she later discovers is linked to an ancient curse.

What We Thought:

I’ve seen both Mayhem and Suitable Flesh before. In fact I reviewed Suitable Flesh back in 2024. Maybe you’ve seen both films or even own them already, but what you don’t have is this The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs: Mayhem/Suitable Flesh Blu-ray Double Feature. After watching it, I hope they make more of these collections.

Both films come from cult horror director Joe Lynch. Mayhem stars Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) and Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) in a virus/lockdown flick that came out years before Covid. Weaving is about to have the bank foreclose on her and Yeun gets fired at the same place at the same time. Unlucky for them the building gets hit with a lockdown over a virus outbreak sweeping the world and mayhem ensues. There’s some great violence although a lot is assumed off-camera as Yeun and Weaving try to make their way up the building to get their revenge on those who have done them wrong.

Suitable Flesh stars Heather Graham as a doctor who takes on a new patient who crashes her office. He’s a young man she thinks has issues, but it turns out there’s an old demon/god type creature running his father’s life and now his. She gets too involved and becomes obsessed with the young man and it is sort of a possession film, but I found it a lot more interesting than I normally do with possesion flicks.

Now if you’ve seen these movies you knew that already, but what this release does is gives us the The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs versions of the films. He hosts a TV show that talks before the movie, during commercial breaks and afterwards. He gives his own opinions on things, has a porn star type co-host and is very much what we love about Joe Bob Briggs if you grew up on him. It’s sort of MST3K mixed with Bonus Feature Commentary and lots of goofs. With Mayhem he sort of crushes the film for lacking more nudity and why the kills weren’t shown more. He had a Twitter “war” with Joe Lynch about it so Joe shows up during the episode of Suitable Flesh to plead his case. It wasn’t a real beef, both are friends in real life.

The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs: Mayhem/Suitable Flesh Blu-ray Double Feature is very cool. I like both movies and making this a collection because both come from Joe Lynch is smart. You learn a lot about the movies while watching it like a couple in the background of Mayhem are having actual sex because it was shot in Serbia. Joe Lynch discusses how Suitable Flesh was a movie Stuart Gordon wanted to make, but he unfortunately died and it’s why Barbara Crampton is involved. Joe talks about the differences he wrote in compared to the H. P. Lovecraft story it’s based on. If you watch The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs already or grew up with Joe Bob Briggs you know what you’re in store for. As a fan I dug it.