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Grindhouse
I just read a bit about this movie and it sounds pretty cool. Anyone else psyched for it?
Plot summary:
An homage to exploitation B-movie thrillers that combines two feature-length segments into one double-bill designed to replicate the grind house
theatergoing experience of the 70s and 80s. In "Death Proof," a psycho named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) stalks and kills beautiful women with his
car. In "Planet Terror," a small-town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." A gun-legged
woman named Cherry (Rose McGowan) and her martial arts-wielding partner (Freddy Rodriguez) take on the zombie army. The two films will be fused
together by fake movie trailers.
TRIVIA:
Both directors 'aged' the films, adding scratches, dirt, and dust, to simulate the feel of the real grindhouse films.
As with the real grindhouse films, the directors intentionally added 'missing reels' in their movies.
F.A.Q.:
What is a "Grindhouse"?
A "Grindhouse" was a type of inner city theatre that would play all night marathons of low budget exploitation films in the 60s, 70s and early 80s.
These down n dirty theatres would often show offbeat ultraviolent and sexually charged films under the categories of Kung Fu (Shaw Brothers films),
Hixploitation (White Lightning, Gator Bait), Blaxploitation (Shaft, Coffy, Superfly, Dolemite, The Mack), Sexploitation (Supervixens, The Swinging
Cheerleaders), Zombie and Cannibal films (Dawn of the Dead, Zombi 2, Cannibal Holocaust) Biker films (The Wild Angels, The Glory Stompers, The Savage
Seven, The Losers) among hundreds of other subgenres.
In the suburbs during the 60s and 70s, Drive-ins were the equivalent to the inner city Grindhouses. You could see many of the same kinds of films but
in more safer outdoor settings. The title of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's first collaboration "From Dusk Til Dawn" (1996) was named after
the catch phrase for the all night Drive-in movie marathons.
Both Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino grew up watching these kinds of films in Grindhouse theatres & drive-ins in the 70s-early 80s. When they
became friends in the early 90s they often held Exploitation film double features in their own home theaters (and also at QTs Film Fests in Austin,
Texas). Flash forward to 2006, the two moviemaking pals decided to recreate these wild nights for movie audiences around the world by making their own
traditional Grindhouse-Drive-In double feature extravaganza complete with two raunchy horror films, fake Exploitation film trailers, ads and other
cool treats.
Who is directing what?
First: Robert Rodriguez brings us "Planet Terror" in which a town is overrun by disease infected sickos. Then comes Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof",
in which a serial killer named Stuntman Mike murders people by the use of his stuntcar instead of a knife or machete.
"Robert's film is Horror, it couldnt happen, but mine is Terror because it could." - Quentin Tarantino
Before and/or in between the movies, there will be a series of fake movie trailers (as it was customary in old grindhouse theatres to show coming
attractions in the double features). Robert Rodriguez presents a Mexicano themed Action film trailer starring the hard boiled actor Danny Trejo in the
title role of "Machete". Edgar Wright (director of Shaun of the Dead) will be delivering a trailer for "DON'T", a "70s style British horror film". Rob
Zombie will be directing a trailer for the Nazisploitation-sci fi-horror flick "Werewolf Women of the S.S." starring Sherri Moon Zombie, Sybill
Danning, Udo Kier, Bill Mosely and Nicolas Cage as the legendary Asian mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu. Eli Roth's (Hostel) fake trailer will be an
ultraviolent homage to 80s holiday themed slasher films called "Thanksgiving". Tarantino was said to be doing a sexploitation trailer, titled
"Cowgirls in Sweden." Although, theres been no word on if this trailer is being added or not.
Which film is shown first?
Reportedly, the film will start with a fake trailer or two, then go right into Rodriguez' Planet Terror. A few more trailers will then be shown, and
Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof will be the finale.
How long will Grindhouse be?
In the official theatrical trailer, Grindhouse is described as being 2 1/2 hours long. So, Planet Terror may be only 60 minutes and then Death Proof
may be longer at 90 min.
What? Missing Reels?
Contrary to the GRINDHOUSE TRIVIA section, the missing reels idea in Death Proof and Planet Terror were NOT true staples of Grindhouse moviegoing.
While many Grindhouse films would be missing frames, they were never missing entire 20-30 minute reels. The concept for this came from a film Quentin
owns ("The Sell Out" starring Oliver Reed) which had a missing reel. He found he enjoyed watching the film with a chunk of the film's plot missing
because it created an interesting mystery about what actually happened in that part of the film. This idea was then transferred to the two Grindhouse
features.
What's all this about the movie being split up?
There's been some recent controversy in the distribution overseas for Grindhouse. Because most non-English speaking territories might not understand
the tradition behind a double feature, the underlying concept might be lost. Hence, as April 6th comes closer for the US release date of both films,
there are decisions being made as to which countries will get Grindhouse, and which will get "Grindhouse: Planet Terror" and "Grindhouse: Death Proof"
So far, aside from the US, the U.K., Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand will all be getting the film as one double
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I really want to see this.
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I saw a poster at the theater the other day when I went to see Zodiac. I'm really interested in this and I definitely appreciate the info. By the way,
Zodiac was fucking great. It's almost three hours long, but well worth it for the story. For those who don't know, it's basically the story of a guy
who worked for one of the newspapers that the Zodiac killer sent his letters to when he was announcing his murders in the 60's and 70's. I love the
fucked up crime stuff and this is one of those more or less unsolved cases that has always been a crazy story, so I'm glad they made a movie about it.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Discipline
I really want to see this. |
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i saw a trailer Danny NSK posted up on myspace a while back.
looks cool as hell
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I've been patiently waiting for this for about a year and a half now. I will be going opening day first showing, cause I'm a goober like that. You
know me and my horror flicks, gotta have it!
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At first I really wasn't interested, but everytime I see the trailer, it looks more and more interesting. I guess I'm going to have to check out
Zodiac too, I heard that it sucked but this was coming from a group of people with no attention span at all.
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Wanting to see this for a while.
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I saw the commercial with the bitch using a prosthethic machine gun leg. I was like this shit is going to be outrageous.
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yeah,I've been waiting awhile for this one ...looks badass.
I want to see that Zodiac movie as well
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Yeah, I saw Rose McGowan get that rifle attached to her leg in the trailer and was like "i'll be hitting this up at some point" Ironically, as I was
typing the trailer was playing on the tube again.
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McGowan is one of the hottest chicks around these days.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by clevohardcore
McGowan is one of the hottest chicks around these days. |
Check out DOOM GENERATION if you havent already. Good nudie scenes of Rose!
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HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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Saw that awhile back... note to all... some dude jerks off at some point in that flick while watching Rose in the tub or something and licks his nut
off his hand. BLECH.
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Looks pretty good, I'll check it out
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