In post-production Q3 2027
Tarantula Hawk
Dir. Rusty Caldera
A New Mexico road crew digs up something that was sleeping under the highway. The original creature feature, rebuilt in glorious WideScreen.
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Planet Drive In — Classic Drive-In Cinema & Film Investment
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 American black-and-white 3D monster horror film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold, from a screenplay by Harry Essex and Arthur Ross and a story by Maurice Zimm. It stars Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, and Whit Bissell.
240+
Films in the drive-in vault
5
Curated lanes from B-movies to westerns
1,800+
Genre filmmakers in our pipeline
12,400+
Founding marquee members
Trending Now
Sci-Fi
B Movie Bonanza
Creature Features
Westerns
The Projectionist's Pick
Tonight's reel from the booth — what we'd queue up first if you only stayed for one feature.
Creature Feature · 1958 · Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
The Blob
A teenage Steve McQueen, a meteorite from outer space, and a jelly-red blob that eats a Pennsylvania town one diner at a time. This is the picture that defines the drive-in: bright Technicolor menace, a doo-wop theme song, and a third-reel showdown inside the local movie house. Pure speaker-pole magic.
- The blueprint Paramount print that put drive-ins on the cultural map
- Burt Bacharach's theme — the only drive-in tune you can hum at the snack bar
- Restored from the original 1.66:1 negative for our intermission slot
Featured by the genre press
FangoriaFamous Monsters of FilmlandRue MorgueCinefantastiqueDrive-In AsylumTrailers From HellShock CinemaVariety
Cult, drive-in & creature-feature honours
Drive-In Academy Awards
Est. 1986
Saturn Awards
Est. 1972
Rondo Hatton Awards
Est. 2002
Sitges Film Festival
Est. 1968
Fantastic Fest
Est. 2005
Monster-Mania Con
Est. 2003
Festival and awards names are independent third-party properties. Planet Drive In is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of those listed.
Box-office tally
A platform with skin in the second feature
$0.00M
Pledged to the drive-in slate
0
Card-carrying carload members
0
Restorations & originals in flight
0%
Members who'd bring the family back
How it works
Owning a piece of the drive-in, in four steps.
Planet Drive In is part streaming service, part marketplace — restoring classic drive-in cinema and bankrolling the next wave of B-movies, creature features, sci-fi, and westerns alongside the fans who love them.
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Browse the marquee
Wander the five lanes — Trending Now, Sci-Fi, B Movie Bonanza, Creature Features, and Westerns. Watch the trailer, read the program notes, see exactly what each restoration or new production needs.
02
Park your stake
Back a single picture or spread your ticket across the whole double-bill slate. Minimums start at $25 — you choose how big a piece of the screen you own.
03
We run the projector
An SEC-compliant funding portal handles the offering, escrow, and reporting. All-or-nothing: funds only release when a picture hits its goal before the credits roll.
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Earn from every showing
Films stream on Planet Drive In and across licensing partners. Backers get revenue share, snack-bar perks, on-screen credits, and quarterly statements from the booth.
Filmmaker spotlight
"Every studio kept telling me a giant-bug picture wouldn't play in 2027. Planet Drive In was the first place that said, 'make the bugs bigger.'"
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Rusty Caldera
Director — "Tarantula Hawk" · Creature Feature · 2028
Coming soon to the lot
On the marquee.
Original Planet Drive In productions and restorations in development and post. Backers get first look, on-screen credits, and revenue share from every showing.
Funding open Q4 2027
Saucers Over Sundown
Dir. Lena Park
1957. A diner waitress in the Nevada desert is the only one who saw the lights. A neon-soaked sci-fi shot on 35mm Ektachrome.
Funding soon Q1 2028
Last Stage to Perdition
Dir. TBA
A widow, a stolen strongbox, and a stagecoach that won't make it through the canyon. A grimy, talky, Leone-pitched western for the drive-in.
From the projection booth
The Production Diary.
Members see this feed in full — dailies, on-set Polaroids, director's notes, restoration scans. Public previews below.
On set
Day 18 of 26Tarantula Hawk
Practical effects unit shot the canyon attack tonight — a 14-foot puppet rig, four operators, no CGI. Dust, hydraulic oil, and one very startled wrangler. The dailies look like 1957 in the best possible way.
Post
Picture lockSaucers Over Sundown
Final cut delivered to scoring. We've handed it to a four-piece theremin-and-Hammond ensemble for the score — the whole second act is going to sound like 1957 staring up at the night sky.
Restoration
4K restorationThe Blob (1958)
Sound team rebuilt the original optical track from a single surviving studio reel. Bacharach's theme has never sounded this clean coming out of a speaker pole.
Delivery
Festival cutLast Stage to Perdition
Locked the 102-minute cut for the Saturn Awards screener. Submitting next month to Fantastic Fest, Sitges, and a midnight slot at the Drive-In Academy Awards.
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The Carload Pass.
Get three friends on the waitlist using your code. When Planet Drive In opens the gates, every car in your party gets a free month of streaming and first dibs on launch-night offerings.
CARLOAD-2027
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Planet Drive In opens Spring 2027. Join the waitlist for early access, founding-carload pricing, and first look at every restoration and new feature on the slate.