Now that we can tivo, download, or youTube restored releases on our cell phones, we've left behind the smells and thrills of the crumbly stickymovie palaces of yesteryear. Or have we? This double bill of non-stop slasher thrillers from cult geniuses Robert Rodriguez and QuentinTarantino resurrects the seamy pleasures of the Grindhouse movieviewing experience. Get your fill of exploitative gratuitous nudity and frantic, gas-fueled chase sequences in Tarantino's Death Proof, the story of psychotic murderer Stuntman Mike, who stalks leggy chicks and runs them over with his car. Revel in the undead side-effects of nuclear waste and the firing range of prosthetic automatic weapons in Rodriguez's Planet Terror, where an army of flesh eating zombies is battled by a martial artist and his busty, gun-legged girlfriend. The bloodsplattering, brain crunching, ax wielding action is tied together with aseries of faux trailers by horror auteurs Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, and Eli Roth. more at grindhousemovie.net 35mm Cinemascope
2007, color, 3 hours 5 minutes, USA