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The Drive-in Banshees  [E]
Children of a Marine wouldn't be afraid of a Horror Movie at the Drive-in, would they?
by foxtale
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Hello, foxtale . This is a review of "The Drive-in Banshees"  by invitation from "WdC SuperPower Reviewers Group" ! *Smile* I have the following comments to offer.

*Quill*Reader Experience

Ben a veteran Marine pilot from WW2 and Korea settles down in Surburbia after the war to raise a family with his wife Betty. They have seven boys whom he heroically drives to a drive-in cinema for a horror movie on Saturday night...


*Quill*Commentary

It is so important to remember the characters we loved and who formed us. As you wrote in your introduction the pace of change is accelerating and the places and memories we have are being overwritten. Orchards are replaced by subdivisions and drive-in movie theaters with shopping malls. But in stories like this, those precious moments that helped define us can live on.

You built the scene very well and I could imagine driving into the theater. You even mentioned the bullies and mosquitoes, important details that defined a climate, context, and culture.

After the excitement of war and important missions to save the world from tyranny, life in suburbia could have seemed restful or a little boring to many. In this story, a man who has seen and indeed inflicted horror in war is presented with make-believe fears in a movie. I doubt very much that it would have been that terrifying to him. Instead, we get a glimpse of the kind of playful resilience and humor that would have gotten him through years of war. Hooting the horn at precisely the right moment would cost no lives, but have the Banshees running for their lives from the terror. I could imagine a man laughing at that and then wondering how he was going to explain his actions to his wife and sons let alone all the drivers parked behind him.

These days the seven sons would be on Netflix on separate mobiles watching different kinds of movies and it just would not be the same nor indeed ever produce the effect of having them all run in the same direction

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And the only operational logistics they now faced were the competing demands on their time by from Little League, swim meets, Scouts, and neighborhood barbecues

transferred into to the U.S. Marines.

Subsequently he was called back into service, piloting a Corsair, providing close air support in the Korean War. - comma after Subsequently

Edgar Allen Poe's “Fall of the House of Usher” starring Vincent Price,
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wheel hub...... - convention is three dots


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