
Acting
Jan 26, 1953
Dallas, Texas, USA
John Bloom
Acting
Biography
John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is an American syndicated film critic, writer, actor, and comic performer. He is known for having hosted the TNT television series MonsterVision from 1996 to 2000, and The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder from 2018–present. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Bloom, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (50)

The last stand of the American exploitation film. In a post video store era, media consolidation has led to the censorship and near death of the independent and exploitation film industry. Joe Bob Briggs (Last Drive-in), Debbie Rochon (Toxic Avenger IV), Lloyd Kaufman and James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) take us on an adventure that leads from the last Blockbuster video store in Bend Oregon to Troma Entertainment in New York, all in an effort to examine how history keeps repeating itself from the video store era to the modern streaming.
VHS Massacre Too

The Halloween ban is now lifted in Helen's Valley, and the sorority girls of Gamma Tau Psi place Michelle in charge of their annual haunted house. Unfortunately for Michelle some uninvited trick or treaters from her past come knocking.
The Barn Part II

Jenny and her husband Eric sit at a diner eating a cheap meal of burgers, fries and chocolate cake. Through their ever-increasing arguments and Jenny's constant visits to the ladies room, the audience will start to learn how close to losing her sanity Jenny really is, and how oblivious Eric is when it comes to Jenny's disorder.
Wretched

Following the events of the original with the survivors attending the funeral of “Rad Chad” Buckley, which quickly devolves into an elaborate series of death traps centered around Chad’s favorite films, forcing the guests to band together and use the rules of horror to survive the bloody game.
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge

The movie covers the careers of five up-and-coming horror-movie loving directors – Mark Borchardt ('Coven'), Ron Atkins ('Necromaniac'), Dave Stagnari ('Catharsis'), John Gora ('Chirpy'), and Brian Singleton.
Horror Business

Hip-hop meets horror in this twisted tale directed by Kamal Ahmed (The Jerky Boys). Binging on hard drugs, white rapper Rapturious spins into murderous hallucinations - or is he really committing these blood-splattering crimes?
Rapturious

Reformed cannibal, Bernie Grisso re-discovers his appetite after being used as a pawn in a malicious game started by his neighbor Ashley, her rotten group of friends and two sadistic cops. Armed with his legendary family's sword and a ravenous midget guardian, Grisso sets out to teach his tormentors a lesson they won't live to forget.
Evil Ever After

The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that populated the bottom shelves at the video rental store. Imaginative, gory, experimental—but always entertaining—these hidden gems are ripe for rediscovery.
In Search of Darkness: Part III

An unemployed young man takes credit for his grandmother's scripts to impress a beautiful Hollywood agent. As his reputation grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep up the pretence.
The Storytellers

Lucy has a social media channel where she hunts evidence of actual monsters, but it’s not doing great, with just a few viewers following her disappointing posts. Everything changes on Christmas Eve when her camera witnesses Santa getting bitten by a werewolf before he turns lycanthrope himself! As Werewolf Santa starts wreaking bloody havoc in their seaside town, Lucy and her bickering family set off on a madcap adventure armed with a rusty skate and a vague understanding of how to kill werewolves gained from her collection of horror comics. The Beast must die to save Christmas!
Werewolf Santa

Cast and crew, as well as some famous fans, recall the insanity of making of the ultimate experience of grueling terror that is The Evil Dead.
One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead
Television & Series (46)

MonsterVision is an American variety series that aired on TNT from March 1, 1993 to September 2000. The series was hosted by Joe Bob Briggs from 1995 to 2000, and featured classic B and cult films from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Penn and Teller guest-hosted MonsterVision marathons before Briggs came on board as the full-time host. Late in its run, the show changed formats, discarded "Last Call," and became Joe Bob's Hollywood Saturday Night and Monstervision.
MonsterVision

Joe Bob and Darcy return to THE LAST DRIVE-IN to celebrate the holy month of October in style: with a triple-feature so on-brand for the season that it'll turn your hair (and your Captain Kirk mask) white.
Joe Bob's Halloween Hootenanny

Joe Bob, Darcy, and the whole Drive-In crew gather around the yule log for some reindeer games and a triple feature of classic holiday horror films and deep-dive trivia.
Joe Bob's Red Christmas

Proving once again that “the drive-in will never die,” iconic horror host and exploitation movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs is back with an all-new Shudder Original series, hosting weekly Friday night double features streaming live exclusively on Shudder. Every week, The Last Drive-In series offers an eclectic pairing of films, with selections ranging across five decades and running the gamut from horror classics to obscurities and foreign cult favorites. And from time to time, special surprise guests will drop in on Joe Bob and Darcy the Mail Girl.









