DRIVE-IN CLASSICS

ROB SALEM



"Drive_in Classics" was a Canadian hosted B-grade movie show; with host Bob Salem.

In 2001, Chum Television launched a truly incredible digital channel called Drive-In Classics that specialized in all manner of celluloid sleaze. The series ran until about 2008.


"Drive-in Classics" was a heady mix of horror, science fiction, kung-fu, biker, sexploitation and monster movies; and was really held together by a series called Salem's Lot, fronted by the great Toronto Star entertainment reporter and B-movie nut Rob Salem.



From IMDB:
Rob Salem was born on 17 June 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. After almost four decades as an entertainment critic, columnist and editor at the Toronto Star, Rob Salem is now a professor of Television History at Humber College, and an occasional actor, broadcaster and pop-culture pundit. He has hosted shows on radio and television, including a six-year run on the Drive-In Classics channel. He is a published author and was the founding artistic director of the Toronto B Festival and the Cult Film & Video Festival. Rob Salem has written and has had several public readings of a stage musical based on the '60s cult film, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die".


Below is a clip from Salem's Lot - a segment on "Drive-In Classics":

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Internet Movie Data Base
"Drive-in Classics"

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"Rob Salem"


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