Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Michael_Elliott Ghosts of Dragstrip Hollow (1959) ** (out of 4) A drag-racing club are facing hard times when their hand out is being taken away from them. With no where to go they learn about one spot out on a creepy road but they're warned not to go there because of it being haunted. Of course, they head out there anyways.GHOSTS OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW is a very, very stupid little movie but at the same time it's just so darn addicting because of how stupid it is. The film tries to be both a hotrod picture as well as a horror film and I'm really not sure it does either of them right. The film runs a very quick sixty-five minutes and features enough laughs to make it worth watching.The best thing going for the film is its wannabe "hip" dialogue, which has the teenagers saying all sorts of phrases and of course the dimwitted parents here don't know what they're saying. I'm going to guess that this film did a very good job at capturing how teens spoke at the time and I must admit that I'm very happy I wasn't a part of this crowd or its language.The horror elements really don't start until the final ten minutes and what's cool is that they wink at other AIP monster films from this era. Movies like DAY THE WORLD ENDED, THE SHE-CREATURE and INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN have their monsters show up in this film and that certainly adds to the charm.

zetes Any person who spouts the hoary maxim "they don't make them like they used to" has never bothered to delve into the really bad movies of the past. Yet a movie so silly is hard to hate. I mean, this was basically made to show in drive-ins. The teenagers in the audience probably weren't going there for the movie anyway. Actually a sequel to a movie called Hot Rod Gang, the movie attempted to appeal to kids with the promise of drag racing and ghosts. It delivers very little on those promises. There's a race right at the beginning. Another occurs near the end - off screen. The ghost is a Scoobie-Doo like guy who wants to scare the teenage protagonists away from their new gearhead clubhouse (the plot makes no sense whatsoever). The teens are the squarest imaginable. They don't want to break the law by drag racing - it happens sometimes, though. There's a lot of bopping to sub-par rock and roll. The chicks are cute - especially the really tall, nerdy one with glasses (dating the nerd, of course). They dance around in their nighties at one point. There is also a talking parrot, a talking car and a goofy spinster aunt. This is actually pretty high up on the list of the worst movies I've ever seen, but, like I said, it's so embarrassing that I can't help but have a bit of affection toward it.

bensonmum2 It looks like bad news for the kids of the local hot rod club. They're about to be thrown out of the building they've used as their clubhouse. And with no place to go, that will mean an end to their club. Just when things look their bleakest, an aunt of one of the club's members offers the kids the use of a house she owns in the appropriately named Dragstrip Hollow. The only catch is that the house is supposed to be haunted.Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow has proved to be a difficult movie for me to get my hands around. To begin with, this has to be the strangest hot rod club I've run across in a movie. These are some of the most clean-cut, white-bread kids imaginable. In comparison, they make Wally and the Bev look like delinquents. They're respectful of others, they wear suits and dresses to parties, they don't rumble, and, most shocking of all, they don't race. Huh? A hot rod club that has a bylaw prohibiting its members from racing? Weird! The rival hot rod club is no better. When the rival gang decides to crash a party, they do so dressed to the nines - suits, ties, and party dresses. And while I found a lot to enjoy, there are too many big problems with the movie to call it good. On the positive side, I enjoyed the incredibly catchy music, the energy of the cast, and the lighthearted fun of it all. On the negative side there's the lack of any real plot, the hokey haunted house and its "resolution", and some really poor acting. In the end, however, the pendulum ends up on the negative side because of two things I found in Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow that are so egregious they're unforgivable – the ridiculously annoying talking bird and the even more ridiculously annoying talking car. Ugh!Edit: Despite the problems with Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow, I've found myself oddly drawn back to it. I've now seen the movie three times in the past couple of days. There seems to be more here than I first gave it credit for. Even the bird and car aren't bothering me as much. I think a change in my rating to a 6/10 is in order.

incorrigableaz I thought the movie was fun. I would like to see it again. I would think about buying it if I knew where to get it. Thats how much I enjoyed it. ENJOYED IT. My Sister and I have brought it up a lot over the years. We would often say Polly want a cracker and just laugh. We would then have to explain where that came from. At that time for our age, it scared us in some spots and made us laugh in others. The bird was a riot. Some of our friends also have fond memories of this movie. I remember we woke our Mother up with our antics while watching it. She was not please as she had to work the next day. I have told my children about it and they would like to see it to.