To be sure, this is a terrible movie, but it's also an hilarious time capsule of fashion, music, lingo, and cars of the era. Now don't get me wrong, this film is about as much an accurate document of late 1950s youth culture as 'Saved by the Bell" is for the 1990s, but I would say both are fun exaggerated representations of the popular youth culture of their times. "Dragstrip" follows a group of teenage hot roders who decide it's a good idea to hold a party at a haunted house. Basically, this is a Beach Party- type of youth film that replaces surfboards with hot rods, although Frankie and Annette are replaced with no-name actors (though I did kind of crush on the nerdy girl with glasses, Sanita Pelkey) and Beach Party's relatively famous musical acts are replace with no-name musical acts. However this film does pre-date the Beach Party films and is something of a dry run for American International Pictures in making light youth oriented musical comedies that would later become the highly successful, if very corny, Frankie and Annette films. The script here though is really, really bad, but it does have some hilariously "hip" lingo, including these exchanges:
"Do you have a man yet?" "I have one nibbling" "Better land him wile the bait is still fresh."
or
"He's got static in his attic - completely zonked!" "I'll have to include a dictionary with this story."
There drag races, pajama parties, rock n roll, fighting, and monsters (even if the monster is AIP being cheap and reusing the costume from "The Astounding She Creature"). Overall, if you enjoy campy AIP Beach Party-type of films, you'll likely enjoy "Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow" which, to be clear, is not a good film, but one I still enjoyed. And to just prove how "hip" this film is, instead of the film ending with a "The End" title card, it instead ends with "The End-est Man" on it's title card.
"Do you have a man yet?" "I have one nibbling" "Better land him wile the bait is still fresh."
or
"He's got static in his attic - completely zonked!" "I'll have to include a dictionary with this story."
There drag races, pajama parties, rock n roll, fighting, and monsters (even if the monster is AIP being cheap and reusing the costume from "The Astounding She Creature"). Overall, if you enjoy campy AIP Beach Party-type of films, you'll likely enjoy "Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow" which, to be clear, is not a good film, but one I still enjoyed. And to just prove how "hip" this film is, instead of the film ending with a "The End" title card, it instead ends with "The End-est Man" on it's title card.