The highlight here is a scene in which those who have survived the virus are rolling down a dark road in a huge tow truck plowing down zombies. It just goes to show that the exploding zombies bit has not yet lost its flavor. Rodriguez’s flair for the dramatic and subtle ability to make even the most disgusting movie moments funny shines through, giving audiences reasons to close their eyes and keep them open all at the same time.
Once you are done with film number one, you get to relax right? Not in the least. This, in fact is what I would easily call the best part of the entire experience - and I do consider this film an experience, one that must be had in the company of other die-hard fanboys and fangirls.
Tarantino and Rodriguez enlisted a few of their friends to make some fake trailers to match play during the intermission. Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects) is first up with a trailer for Werewolf Women of the S.S.. It is about, well, werewolf women created by the Nazis. While fun, it doesn’t hold a flame to the next two trailers, the first of which is for a movie called Don’t Scream directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead). Once you see the trailer you will not only know not to scream, but you also will have a clear understanding of what else you should not do.
The final trailer is from Eli Roth (Hostel). Eli delivers the ultimate trump card of a trailer with Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is about as depraved and absurd as a horror trailer could possibly get, and it just works so well.
The final segment is Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, which stars Kurt Russell as a former stuntman turned psycho pervert who stalks hot girls and kills them with his car. While Kurt Russell is every bit of a badass that he was as Snake Plisskin back in the day and the car chase scenes are intensely satisfying, it does seem that Mr. Tarantino gets in his own way a bit.
Article comments
1 - Kaonashi
Since Planet Terror has zombies, are we to expect typical zombie gore, like them disembowling people and stuff like that? Or is it more along the lines of them chewing on people's body parts and such?
I'd really like to see Grindhouse but have trouble handling horror gore. Strangely enough, I can handle violence that comes with wars and fighting very well. I can easily handle "300", but not "Hostel".
Let me put it this way. I watched the Thanksgiving trailer, and I felt nauseated for a good deal of the day. Is most of the gore in Grindhouse the same?
2 - matt
it's not a shotgun on her leg you retard
3 - Mathew
Planet Terror is the greatest zombie movie ever.
Death Proof is technically my favourite movie of the year, and probably one of my personel favouries ever. The mauling that alot of critics have given it is sickening. But the movie is death proof and none of you could ever touch it. btw Do you think I enjoy bitchtalk? It happens alot in the movie and they are "Stuntman Mike's" targets. DeathProof is like an underground rap classic; alot of soft mainstream fluff wont get turned on by it.