“Grindhouse”

“Grindhouse”

Starring: Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, Michael Parks, Josh Brolin, Michael Biehn, Marley Shelton, Jordan Ladd, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Vanessa Ferlito, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Directors: Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez

Story: Rodriguez and Tarantino bring back the golden age of exploitation flicks with this pair of films. Rodriguez directs “Planet Terror,” which stars Brolin and Shelton as a pair of doctors who treat people with some fairly strange infections and sores. It’s up to a go-go dancer (McGowan), who has a machine gun for an artificial leg, and her martial arts wiz boyfriend (Rodriguez) to defeat the zombie army. Tarantino directs “Death Proof,” which tells the story of a group of women on a movie set (Dawson, Winstead, Bell) who are being stalked by a stunt man (Russell), who uses his “death proof” cars as the ultimate weapon.

Buzz: Remember those old movies that used to play after midnight on TV in the pre-cable days? Well, this is a throwback to that kind of fun. The directors have packaged the two films together and have even included some fake trailers for movies called, “They Call Him Machete,” “Werewolf Women of the S.S” (this trailer is directed by Rob Zombie), “Thanksgiving” (trailer by Eli Roth) and a yet unnamed trailer by “Shaun of the Dead” director Edgar Wright. These movies are popcorn films through and through — just two filmmakers who love movies having a great old time.



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