# Worst double feature you ever saw in a theater or drive-in Please read OP) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 29, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477 "2026-05-29T17:01:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/1 "2026-05-29T17:01:13Z")
By worst I don’t mean two bad movies. I mean two movies that are so unlike each other that “What the fuck were they thinking when they put these two movies as a double feature??”. What brought this to mind was a friend mentioning that they once saw “The Producers” on a double bill with “Charly” (the one that came from the classic science fiction story “Flowers For Algernon”. For me, it was a drive-in double feature of “Halloween” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. BTW, it was the latter that gave me nightmares, not the former. 😁 What’s yours? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/2 "2026-05-29T21:01:52Z")
Where are you encountering double features, let alone drive-in movie theatres, pray tell? The last double feature I saw was a set of paired reruns, _The Absent-Minded Professor_ + _The Shaggy Dog_, in 1967. The last time I saw a movie at a drive-in, it was _Diamonds are Forever_ at the [Skyway Drive-in](https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/32112/photos), circa 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/3 "2026-05-29T21:22:15Z")
It happened while I was in the U.S.A.F. in Southern California back in the late '80s. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/4 "2026-05-29T21:23:02Z")
My parents did not like drive-in theaters, but one summer night in (I think) 1962 my brother and I convinced them to take us to the drive-in to see the Marlon Brando version of “Mutiny on the Bounty.” As I recall, the co-feature was “Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure.” When I grew up, I saw lots of movies at drive-ins and though that particular combination may not have been the worst pairing, it was certainly one of the oddest. Two movies with absolutely nothing in common. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/5 "2026-05-29T21:28:13Z")
I watched drive in movies in WI until at least the late 70s. Arizona had a theater that was open (IIRC) well past 2000. There are still a few drive in theaters open to this day. As for the OP, the worst paring was sadly only anecdotal, so I cannot validate it: a friend said he went to a multi-screen drive in and on one of the other screens was a hard X film. It was his first, ah, exposure to X-rated films. He was suitably impressed, so much he doesn;t remember what film the family went to actually see.. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/6 "2026-05-29T21:58:01Z")
I remember my mom taking us to a drive-in double feature of some kid-movie we kids wanted to see, plus “Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice”, which was definitely NOT a kids movie. But the drive-in showed “Bob et al” first! We kids weren’t following it, and my mom told us maybe we should nap before “our” movie came on. So now all us kids were sleepy during the G-rated movie, so I don’t even remember what the movie was. I just remember being robbed of our movie by Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/7 "2026-05-29T23:11:42Z")
I don’t remember any double features. I remember seeing Jaws, Smokey and the Bandit, Schick Sunn Classics The Mysterious Monsters and Search for Noah’s Ark. I remember a similar situation as someone else noted where we went to see Disney’s The Boatniks (a re-release) and the other screen was showing Happy Hooker Goes to Washington, so my 8 year old self spent most of the movie looking at the rear view mirror and the other movie. By the way, that drive-in is still open to this day. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/8 "2026-05-30T00:14:09Z")
My parents took me and my sister to “_The Bridge At Remagen_”, a gritty World War 2 movie (Dad had served, and wanted to instill violent patriotism in us). The first half of the double bill was _“If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium”._ Mom still laughs at how she was worried about her kids seeing the war movie, but the comedy was the one that had people jumping into bed with each other. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/9 "2026-05-30T00:54:24Z")
1985-ish, the Village Theater in Plainfield, Indiana. On the bill one winter’s evening… _Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo_ and _The Terminator._ What a bizarre juxtaposition that was. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/10 "2026-05-30T16:00:12Z")
Our town still has a drive-in and it isn’t uncommon for a kids movie to open for something rated R. I specifically remember going to see _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_ with the quite violent _Lucy_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/11 "2026-05-30T16:01:43Z")
Well…they both used inaccurate cartoon physics. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/12 "2026-05-30T17:27:42Z")
_Blue Lagoon_ and _Alien_ at the drive in. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/13 "2026-05-30T18:08:30Z")
_Alice’s Restaurant_ and _Midnight Cowboy_. 17-year-old me really wanted to see _Midnight Cowboy_, but it was the second feature. My buddies and I had to leave shortly after it started, because curfew. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/14 "2026-05-30T18:56:02Z")
Food of the Gods and The Deep. 1977. FOTG had actually come out the year prior and had cheesy special effects while TD had amazing photography. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/15 "2026-05-30T20:32:40Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I specifically remember going to see _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_ with the quite violent _Lucy_. I wonder if anyone thought they’d be seeing _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_ and _Linus & Lucy?_ ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/16 "2026-05-30T21:38:37Z")
I’ve only seen one double feature, so it qualifies as “worst” (as well as “best”, of course). It was at a drive-in; the twilight feature was _Spies Like Us_ and the nightcap was _Top Gun_. The juxtaposition of a Cold War comedy with a Cold War rah-rah war movie was pretty jarring. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/17 "2026-05-30T21:55:43Z")
Plus the invention of Wet Tee-Shirt contests. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/18 "2026-05-31T00:26:03Z")
I seem to recall “Soylent Green,” a sci-fi movie about a dystopian future, teamed with “Lolly Madonna,” a movie about demented hillbillies in a dystopian present. ---
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It’s been a while (long while, actually), but I seem to remember going to see _[The Abominable Dr. Phibes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066740/)_ and having to sit through _[Isadora](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063141/)_. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477/20 "2026-05-31T02:41:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Well…they both used inaccurate cartoon physics. ISWYDT [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-double-feature-you-ever-saw-in-a-theater-or-drive-in-please-read-op/1030477.md?page=2)