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Grindhouse

  • 2007
  • 12
  • 3h 11m
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Grindhouse (2007)
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Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them... Read allQuentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.

  • Directors
    • Robert Rodriguez
    • Eli Roth
    • Quentin Tarantino
  • Writers
    • Robert Rodriguez
    • Rob Zombie
    • Edgar Wright
  • Stars
    • Kurt Russell
    • Rose McGowan
    • Danny Trejo
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    195K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,027
    82
    • Directors
      • Robert Rodriguez
      • Eli Roth
      • Quentin Tarantino
    • Writers
      • Robert Rodriguez
      • Rob Zombie
      • Edgar Wright
    • Stars
      • Kurt Russell
      • Rose McGowan
      • Danny Trejo
    • 544User reviews
    • 243Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 22 nominations total

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    Kurt Russell
    Kurt Russell
    • Stuntman Mike (segment "Death Proof")
    Rose McGowan
    Rose McGowan
    • Pam (segment "Death Proof")…
    Danny Trejo
    Danny Trejo
    • Machete (segment "Planet Terror")
    Zoë Bell
    Zoë Bell
    • Zoë Bell (segment "Death Proof")
    • (as Zoe Bell)
    Rosario Dawson
    Rosario Dawson
    • Abernathy (segment "Death Proof")
    Vanessa Ferlito
    Vanessa Ferlito
    • Butterfly (segment "Death Proof")
    Sydney Tamiia Poitier
    Sydney Tamiia Poitier
    • Jungle Julia (segment "Death Proof")
    Tracie Thoms
    Tracie Thoms
    • Kim (segment "Death Proof")
    Jordan Ladd
    Jordan Ladd
    • Shanna (segment "Death Proof")…
    Mary Elizabeth Winstead
    Mary Elizabeth Winstead
    • Lee (segment "Death Proof")
    Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino
    • Warren (segment "Death Proof")…
    Marcy Harriell
    Marcy Harriell
    • Marcy (segment "Death Proof")
    Eli Roth
    Eli Roth
    • Dov (segment "Death Proof")…
    Omar Doom
    Omar Doom
    • Nate (segment "Death Proof")
    Michael Bacall
    Michael Bacall
    • Omar (segment "Death Proof")
    Monica Staggs
    Monica Staggs
    • Lanna Frank (segment "Death Proof")
    Jonathan Loughran
    Jonathan Loughran
    • Jasper (segment "Death Proof")
    Marta Mendoza
    • Punky Bruiser (segment "Death Proof")
    • Directors
      • Robert Rodriguez
      • Eli Roth
      • Quentin Tarantino
    • Writers
      • Robert Rodriguez
      • Rob Zombie
      • Edgar Wright
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    7CrassActionHero

    A Tale of Two Movies

    Grindhouse(2007)

    Review 1: Planet Terror(2007) Welcome to the Grindhouse. We start off with an excellent and extremely funny "trailer". This is brilliant stuff. "Machete." You will laugh, you will enjoy the B-movie magic. This is filled to the top with cheese and including the silly voice-over to go. It's a hoot.

    Planet Terror is on. We see retro movie intros with the misspelled words and low budget sound. It's all so well done. Anyway, Planet Terror is the next wave of zombie horror. This movie delivers all the goods and then some. We get all kinds of extreme violence and B-movie humor. This movie takes it all the way with the violence! We also have a terrific cast. The story is actually pretty good.

    Michael Biehn is great as the Sheriff Hague. We also get Rose McGowan as a former stripper. The scenes at the hospital are incredible. When Quentin Tarantino shows up, this can be the most original zombie scene ever! It's grotesque, but you will be in total shock! The movie has an age feel to it and is treated well. We have the old looking film reel to the burnouts and missing scenes too.

    Planet Terror is an amazing tribute. This is one of the BEST zombie movies I have ever seen! Now for a treat. We get a few more rather hilarious and twisted movie trailers. Let me just say is that Eli Roth is twisted. These trailers are a hoot. Damn they are funny. Shlock value guaranteed. Be sure to look out for a surprise appearance that NOBODY will see coming! Now for the Tarantino.

    Death Proof(2007)

    Review 2: After an amazing first half we get a rather lackluster second. Hear me out, Kurt Russel is Stuntman Mike. He is homicidal and bad to the core. I found him to be one of the most likable villains ever. That's a plus. Also Death Proof has some unique kill sequences by Stuntman Mike that are well done and are satisfying. Russel is fantastic as the devil behind the wheel.

    However, Death Proof has many weaknesses. First is the inane and annoying girl-chat that goes on for what seems like an eternity. Worse yet, this has almost NOTHING to do with the movie! Second, the film does not have the old feel of the previous movie. Third, the heroines of the movie are just plain annoying. I, for the life of me got bored and frustrated with the girl chat and could not root for these girls. The second batch of girls were incredibly annoying.

    This is too bad as Death Proof has some really well done stunt work and a nice car chase scene. The revenge chase was lame though, due to the driver constantly cursing trying to be a bad ass at every conceivable moment to the point of hideous. Tarantino should have given Russel A lot more screen time as Stuntman Mike and less to the ladies. I found myself rooting for Stuntman Mike. I felt the ending was well.....unsatisfying is an overstatement. I felt ripped off.

    So, we got a tale of two movies. One a success and the other a massive letdown, despite a few cool scenes. This is a fitting tribute to the days long past, but Tarantino just did not deliver.

    The Last Word: Stay for Planet Terror and the trailers. Death Proof start off right, but hits a crash landing. Watching Death Proof is for the VERY patient. Trust me.
    8perica-43151

    Great trashy&campy fun

    The idea of the movie is to make a homage/parody of B movies and recreate a distilled grind-house experience, with an oversized budget, A-list star cast and by two top directors, resources that none of the trashy genre movies had. It is a work of love and a guilty pleasure to watch, though the first part, Planet Terror, is much more successful and would rate 9+, while the Tarantino entry is somewhat of a miss. The fake trailers, the first of which resulted in an eventual feature - Machete, are great.

    Planet Terror is the very definition of camp, and its only (slight) flaw is how obvious and in-your-face that campiness actually is. This part is action filled, and works perfectly as great, over-the-top, always hilariously fun, gory cheesecake. The second part is slower and somewhat different in tone, and is perhaps better viewed separately, it has its moments but Planet Terror is the superior part.
    10jay_hovah703

    Best "experience" in years

    I won tickets to the world premiere of Grindhouse in LA this past week and it was the best 3 hours of my life in recent history. The stories of the two movies combined with the detail and inventiveness of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez brought together 3 hours of action packed fun. The two directors updated the sleazy grindhouse movie experience from the 70's and commercialized it so that we can all enjoy it. You won't find some greasy guy with his pants around his ankles sitting next to you, but you are probably going to be able to sit through all 3 hours of these movies.

    I want to compliment the directors for having a unique cinematic vision (and the Weinsteins for funding that vision). I don't always agree with the choices made with either of the filmmakers, but I think they are two of the hardest working most innovative people in Hollywood today. I add this because most film studies students love to hate both of these people and in most conversations suggest that they would be able to do a much better job than either. I disagree.

    Planet terror is a gross out flick that has appropriate amounts of gore and guts. If you like Rodriguez, then this movie fits in with all of his previous works. No real surprises here, but fun fun fun!

    Tarantino surprised me. I liked the first movies from Tarantino because his movies were set in realities not far from our own. I doubt that it would happen in a weekend, but Pulp Fiction is a semi-believable good story in Los Angeles with unbelievable dialog. Same with Reservoir Dogs. (Jackie Brown is too believable and therefore, uninteresting) As he has progressed, his movies became fantasy, e.g., From Dusk til Dawn and Kill Bill 1 & 2 and WAY too over the top for a "Tarantino" flick.

    Death Proof brings it all home! I don't want to spoil any of the movie, so just go see it! It's a simple plot with unbelievable suspense and decent dialog. I have never been so nervous in a film in as long as I can remember. Its no secret that the movie involves a car -- but Tarantino has taken a "classic" car scenario using a classic car and updated it for the new millennium. One only has suspend belief "just enough" for this mix of reality and fantasy to suck them in. It was Tarantino at his best.

    Both movies were well executed, well scored, well written, and well played. The extra's and cameos are icing on the cake. No Oscars for either director, but that isn't why you went to see these movies in the first place, now is it?
    9ZMannon

    Good, bloody fun!

    I went into this film with expectations for an extreme amount of campy senseless gore and violence - and it was delivered as promised! A WARNING: Know what to expect when you go see this movie, or you might be surprised/disappointed. There is no moral, no good sense or life lesson to be taken from the story lines or characters. Sometimes things don't make sense and this is all done on purpose in homage to original exploitation films Warnings aside, Grindhouse is a lot of fun, there were as many "ooh" and "ahh" moments as there were "oh my god why did they show that?" moments. All of the actors' performances were right on and the action directing was excellent. My only negative comment is that Tarintino's film dragged a bit in the middle, but he more than made up for it. I couldn't help but raise my fist in the air and shout out "yeah!" at the end of his flick.

    You will be surprise, you will be disgusted and you'll enjoy the hell out of it.

    A unique cinema experience indeed.
    8canada_rules_74

    The first classic of the new century

    Grindhouse is all about excess. Excess blood, gore, puss, explosions, near non-stop laughter and violence. The only thing you will find little of in it is nudity. It's typical Tarantino-paranoid-about-nudity and what we get are two distinct halves to one great film.

    If you loved Tarantino's "Jackie Brown", then you'll love "Death Proof". D.P. is basically Jackie Brown on wheels. He rambles on and on and on about completely un-funny and pointless things for nearly 50 minutes with little else happening. I am quite disappointed with QT, as he is my favourite director/writer but I think he is stretching his limit a bit too far. He has fallen into a self-indulgent groove of non-stop banter or over-the-top violence. The end is capped off with probably one THE BEST car chases in history that lasts for about 20 amazing minutes that will undoubtedly give you a heart attack it's so well made. Also, Kurt Russell is NOT the main star of it as many people believe and I'll leave it at that.

    Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" on the other hand is a completely off the wall, no holds barred shmorgassboard of absolute cinematic enjoyment. People blow up when shot with revolvers, gore is splattered at least every couple minutes once it gets past the first two minutes and it will have you laughing harder than any Tarantino film ever has. It is so freakin' good that I think my eyes fell out and had an orga*m due to the cinematic bliss that is "Planet Terror".

    Rose McGowan will undoubtedly become the new pin-up girl and sex symbol due to her role of Cherry Darling; a Go-Go dancer (unfortunately not a stripper) that eventually gets an assault rifle for a leg. Who knew that an assault rifle for a leg could ever be THAT hot?

    There are no words in the history of mankind that can help me explain to anyone the awesomeness that is displayed in "Grindhouse". "Death Proof" may drag it down a bit, but is nonetheless essential for the film as a whole. This is exactly the movie that Hollywood needed to have kicked up it's butt. Hopefully this will pave the way for more "extreme" films or higher rated films in general; although I'm still unsure if it would be a good idea to go to the extremes that French cinema is experiencing at the moment, but would nonetheless be welcome.

    IMO, "Grindhouse" is THE BEST FILM since "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in 1966 for pure filmic enjoyment. Sit back, relax, and prepare to have your head explode! Go see it now or you'll regret it!

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    • Trivia
      Nicolas Cage agreed to play Fu Manchu in the Werewolf Women of the SS trailer, for free, as a favor to his friend Rob Zombie.
    • Goofs
      Because Grindhouse is an homage to the old low budget films of the 70s and 80s, there are many deliberate errors by the filmmakers to give an authentic grindhouse feel.
    • Quotes

      Stuntman Mike: Do I frighten you?

      [Arlene nods]

      Stuntman Mike: Is it my scar?

      Arlene: It's your car.

      Stuntman Mike: Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. It's my mom's car.

    • Crazy credits
      Just below the listing for Quentin's personal chef is the following credit: "Personal Chef for Mr. Rodriguez - Robert Rodriguez"
    • Alternate versions
      Tarantino's segment, Death Proof, was lengthened for showing at the Cannes Movie Festival. Most of the film's scratches (used in Grindhouse) were also cut out.
    • Connections
      Edited into Planète terreur (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Grindhouse (Main Title)
      Written by Robert Rodriguez

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    • Release date
      • August 14, 2007 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Grind House
    • Filming locations
      • Texas Chili Parlor - 1409 Lavaca St, Austin, Texas, USA(bar scenes)
    • Production companies
      • Dimension Films
      • Big Talk Productions
      • Dartmouth International
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    • Budget
      • $67,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $25,037,897
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $11,596,613
      • Apr 8, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $25,422,088
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    • Runtime
      • 3h 11m(191 min)
    • Color
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    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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