Hear ye movie geeks. Tarantino & Rodriguez tag team up for a cinematic ode to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of...
Hear ye movie geeks. Tarantino & Rodriguez tag team up for a cinematic ode to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of the 70s/80s - in the form of a double feature, two 60 minute features.
Rodriguez directs Planet Terror, chronicles the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombies who taken over, and the remaining survivors who refuse to succumb. Tarantino directs Death Proof, with Kurt Russell as an engine-revving psychopath who has a penchant for hit and runs.
The name 'Grindhouse' comes from a term to describe inner city cinemas in the 70s that showed low-budget independent films which, more often than not, was packed full of nudity & violence to offer something different from Hollywood fare. The influence of such a culture is obvious on the filmmakers and this, it seems, is their unashamed tribute.
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84 %195 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
87 %330,482 reviewsAudience score rating
"This monumentally pointless movie is best summarized by a line from Planet Terror: "At some point in your life, you find a use for every useless talent you have." Rodriguez, Tarantino, and Co. aim for nothing more noble than to freak the funk, and it's about godd--- time. Go wasted, go stoned, go without your parents' permission. In paying homage to an obsolete form of movie culture, Grindhouse delivers a dropkick to ours..."
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Village Voice
Village Voice"Planet Terror delivers only momentary kicks...while Tarantino's Death Proof is a juicy, delicious treat, its pleasures stem much less from the play with genre conventions than from great dialogue and electric performances..."
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Variety
Variety"If you were keeping score, it would be Quentin Tarantino 1, Robert Rodriguez 0..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"By stooping low without selling out, this babes-and-bullets tour de force gets you high on movies again..."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage...."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"The only criticism that seems to merit any real discussion is whether directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino actually did make real grindhouse-style fare. To whit, I can easily say: yes, they not only made two on-point grindhouse films, they did them to painful perfection..."
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Film Threat
Film ThreatGrindhouse | Details
- Runtime
- 191
- Genre
- Action, Comedy, Horror
- Country of origin
- USA
