Gemini Drive-In Dallas Memories

06/03/2025

"With car windows rolled down and popcorn in hand, moviegoers flocked to the big screens for a feature under the Texas stars, where the show was as much about the community as it was about the film." The Dallas Morning News

The question about movies showing at the Gemini Drive-In in December 1972 is part of Curious Texas, a project from The Dallas Morning News that invites...

10/31/2020

As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder, It will be the first full moon on All Hallows' Eve since 1944, and Carbaret Drive-In is screening the cult horror classic Night of the Demons (1988) TONIGHT/Halloween with the star of the film, writer, dancer and renowned animal communicator, 🌕

10/03/2020

Night of the Living Dead will be presented at Carbaret Drive-In tonight in remastered 4K, 52 years after it debuted at the Gemini in 1968.

08/15/2020

Who saw Fast Times at the Gemini in 1982?

Carbaret Drive-In "Back to School Special" presents Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High tonight.

08/06/2020

"The Last Starfighter was one of the first movies to use extensive CGI. Digital Productions created 27 minutes for the film, an enormous amount of CGI at the time." -Dread Central
Enjoy this groundbreaking bit of 80's cinema this Saturday night at Carbaret Drive-In. 🚀👽🚀

07/18/2020

Tonight July 18th: There are only have a few spots left for the Carbaret Drive-in screening of the Yellow Submarine Sing-a-Long, complete with bouncing ball lyrics + an opening Beatles inspired set by the Charming Gardeners + KERA Telespotting introducing, and prizes & tea samples from the The British Emporium.
"Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies."

06/03/2020

The Gemini Drive-In returns this Friday and Saturday night for very special Gemini Twin Reunion at the Carbaret pop-up Drive-In experience at Brizo in Richardson, just two miles from the original theater. Enjoy music, dj, twin go go dancers, and a double feature screening of Gordon McClendon's 1959 drive-in cult classics — The Killer Swrews & The Giant Gila Monster — from the socially distanced comfort of your own vehicle. The entire show is broadcast over the FM dial straight to your car or transistor radio on 93.5 FM, just like KNUS in 1965.
Details in the comments below...

05/23/2020

Carbaret, a pop-up drive-in just 2 miles from the Gemini, was just featured on National Public Radio's KERA and Art&Seek This post pandemic drive-in is a total blast! 📽📻🍿

It's a Saturday night at the drive-in. People in cars are watch coming-attraction trailers for horror movies. Car hops wearing face masks deliver food to your rolled-down window. The moon glows in the clear night sky. And then come the live dancers dressed as ghosts! Hoofing it to a spooky old jazz....

05/21/2020

Carbaret is the first pop-up "pandemic drive-in experience", and just a few miles from the original Gemini Drive‐In, which it was partly inspired by. This Friday and Saturday night!

03/21/2020

We're back!

Since the coronavirus pandemic shut down movie theaters, drive-ins have been seeing an uptick in guests.

05/10/2019

It's alive! Join us for a very rare and a very special 40th anniversary showing of Ron Howard's Cotton Candy with Clint Howard LIVE — filmed at Dallas' Lake Highlands High and Town East Mall.

Join us for a very rare and a very special 40th anniversary showing of the film at Alamo Drafthouse Lake Highlands featuring star…

04/19/2019

"The Gemini Drive-In became Dallas’ first multiscreen drive-in theater when it opened in 1965... Frankie Avalon and Deborah Waley hosted an autograph party at Gemini before the screening of their film Beach Blanket Bingo during the theater’s grand opening." -The Dallas Morning News

North Texans looking to enjoy a movie on the big screen alfresco will have to look outside of Dallas’ city limits. Big D is home to many movie...