Crabs and Carmen(Ned Manning and Natalie McCurry)decide to take big bro's fancy Chevy for a little spin and stop at the Star Drive-In. What they don't expect is that the cops steal two wheels from the car and there is no way out. As they come to understand, this place is a concentration camp for punkers, junk-food lovers, and drive-in movie addicts. Crabs is dead-set against remaining in the slums of this prison(which might actually be a dream for those who wish to party endlessly the day and night away, eat burgers, drink down strawberry shakes, and do drugs without a hassle)& will seek a way out while his girlfriend, Carmen, loves her new home and wishes to remain.
Set in a economically unstable Australia, undesirables or those deemed as "wastes" of the society have their own place to live with minor allowances and make their place of rest inside their tire-less vehicles. What interrupts their utopia, however, is when the government decides to bring truck-loads of asians and other minorities for drop off. The "White Australia" of the camp wish them gone because they deem them some sort of threat..Carmen is quite compassionate about this as she has become integrated in the atmosphere of the camp. Crabs searches for some way of just leaving and this strains his relationship with Carmen. We often see police trucks circling and they present an ominous authoritarian presence which offers that no one will be able to stray too close to any escape. You have Thompson(Peter Whitford)who operates the place claiming that he's merely an employee following orders, but this doesn't seem to wash with Crabs who spies on him with the police.
Interesting curio for lovers of 80's trash cinema. It offers not such an impossible idea..rounding up those deemed inferior to the society as a whole. To get rid of those considered a pain in the neck to morale and comfortable living, just weed them out and put them away. You give them what they want..freedom to screw around not having to worry with following a modicum of rules, while at the same time not having to eat healthy and have the luxury of watching nothing but trash on the big-screen.
Set in a economically unstable Australia, undesirables or those deemed as "wastes" of the society have their own place to live with minor allowances and make their place of rest inside their tire-less vehicles. What interrupts their utopia, however, is when the government decides to bring truck-loads of asians and other minorities for drop off. The "White Australia" of the camp wish them gone because they deem them some sort of threat..Carmen is quite compassionate about this as she has become integrated in the atmosphere of the camp. Crabs searches for some way of just leaving and this strains his relationship with Carmen. We often see police trucks circling and they present an ominous authoritarian presence which offers that no one will be able to stray too close to any escape. You have Thompson(Peter Whitford)who operates the place claiming that he's merely an employee following orders, but this doesn't seem to wash with Crabs who spies on him with the police.
Interesting curio for lovers of 80's trash cinema. It offers not such an impossible idea..rounding up those deemed inferior to the society as a whole. To get rid of those considered a pain in the neck to morale and comfortable living, just weed them out and put them away. You give them what they want..freedom to screw around not having to worry with following a modicum of rules, while at the same time not having to eat healthy and have the luxury of watching nothing but trash on the big-screen.