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  • Actors: Rose McGowan, Kurt Russell
  • Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie
  • Writers: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Classification: 18
  • Run Time: 191 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005JPNH
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 554,295 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Loud, fast, and proudly out of control, Grindhouse is a tribute to the low-budget exploitation movies that lurked at drive-ins and inner city cinemas in the '60s and early '70s. Writers/directors Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) cooked up this three-hour double feature as a way to pay homage to these films, and the end result manages to evoke the down-and-dirty vibe of the original films for an audience that may be too young to remember them. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a rollicking horror/sci-fi/action piece about a plague outbreak that turns citizens into cannibalistic murderers; it's heavy on the gore and explosions but also features a terrific cast of A players (Freddy Rodriguez, Naveen Andrews, Marley Shelton) and B-movie vets (Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Tom Savini) and the indelible image of Rose McGowan as a stripper whose torn-off leg is replaced by a high-powered machine gun.

Tarantino's Death Proof is the mellower of the two, relatively speaking; it's wordier (as to be expected) and rife with pulp/comic book posturing and eminently quotable dialogue. It also features a terrific lead performance by Kurt Russell as a homicidal stunt man whose weapon of choice is a souped-up Dodge Challenger. Tarantino's affection for his own dialogue slows down the action at times, but he does provide showy roles for a host of likable actresses, including Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, McGowan (again), Sydney Poitier, and newcomer Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill. Detractors may decry the rampant violence and latch onto a sexist undertone in Tarantino's feature, but for those viewers who grew up watching these types of films in either cinemas or on VHS, such elements will be probably be more of a virtue than a detrimental factor. And the overall vibe of absurdist hype--which is elevated to hilarious levels by a quartet of mock trailers by Rodriguez (the "Mexploitation" action pic Machete, starring Danny Trejo as a badass version of his Spy Kids character), Eli Roth (the faux holiday slasher Thanksgiving), Rob Zombie (the delirious Werewolf Women of the S.S. with Sybil Danning and Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu!) and Edgar (Shaun of the Dead) Wright (a hilarious Hammer send-up whose title is its funniest gag)--goes a long way towards making Grindhouse one of the most blissful guilty pleasure nights at the movies in a long time. --Paul Gaita

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Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez team up again to create a proper ode to exploitation films of yesteryear. Grindhouse as a whole is presented as if you've gone back in time and entered a cinema in the 1970s for a cheap double feature. In that respect, it's complete with faux movie trailers and other fillers to simulate this experience. There are four faux movie trailers (one at the beginning and three in the middle) and two feature length films, creating in all three hours and eleven minutes of movie, and beware because long movie = long movie review. Its length no doubt plays a major part in its disappointing box office take but don't let that fool you, this is a very exciting and unique film, and without question worth seeing in the theater.

The first feature length film is entitled Planet Terror and is directed by Robert Rodriguez. One thing Rodriguez does here that he unquestionably learned from Tarantino is use his ability to trigger the audience's sense of nostalgia, which is of course particularly important given the overall theme of Grindhouse. Rodriguez's intent is to create a celebration of the splatter, zombie and cannibal films of the 60s and 70s (from Blood Feast to Dawn of the Dead). He does so remarkably well.

Planet Terror is a zombie movie, so there really isn't much to say in terms of plot. In case you don't know already, zombies run around and eat people (specifically and more often than not, it's our brains they fancy). This sets the stage of course for some great action and gory shenanigans.
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I personally preferred Rodriguez's Planet Terror to Deathproof - probably because it was so much more far fetched that I was more able to laugh at it than Deathproof, which combines Vanishing Point with Kronenberg's Crash.... Death Proof is a bit like a lot of Tarantino offerings - particularly Jackie Brown, in that it favours very long stylised monologues which can sometimes be unbelievable in their range of language, and also their duration. It's also a lot less easy to laugh about car crashes than it is to laugh about a former go-go dancer, who, having been ravaged by zombies in Texas first and has had half her leg eaten off, first to have it replaced by a piece of 4x2 stripped out from the hospital wall, then, with peg-leg stuck into her stump, made to dance for a nasty guard (played by Tarantino), before being rescued by her boyfriend and having her DIY prosthetic replaced with a M-16 assault rifle with underslung rocket launcher with which to despatch countless numbers of the living dead.... seriously - does it get better than that? Planet Terror is a glorious gore fest with its tongue firmly in its mouth. It's creative, humorous and well-shot - I'm looking forward to the DVD release to see the "missing reels" alone.

Despite my preference for Planet Terror, both films are excellent and it beggars belief that the UK release has been put back to September and the films will be split. Just because US audiences didn't appreciate the movies doesn't make them bad - Reservoir Dogs was badly received at its US launch, it was only in Europe that it was reappraised. Splitting the films means that the spoof trailers have to be divided out, plus there is overlap in location and characters between Planet Terror and Death Proof, so this will be lost. OK, its only subtle and it won't ruin the viewing of either, but it is there for a reason. My advice would be to seek out the region 1 version of this DVD as its likely to be available before the UK cinema release....
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Planet Terror superb ...death proof needs to be skipped to 45 minutes, there is nothing, repeat NOTHING worth wasting your time watching before - just shows how inferior Tarantino is to Rodriguez, the difference in quality between the two movies on this disk is embarrassing !
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