Grindhouse is Tarantino and Rodriguez’s homage to a long gone era of rat infested theaters, damaged projectors, scratchy prints, and exploitation films that existed before the popularity of home video.
The local grindhouse was the place you went to see movies you couldn’t see anywhere else, most of the time because they were so bad no one else wanted to play them, but also because they existed on the fringes of respectable society by showcasing extreme violence, sex, nudity, and berserk, experimental ideas and themes.
Grindhouse attempts to capture the essence of that experience and resurrect it in one big event with two movies, one from each acclaimed director, shown back to back. This is an event, not just a movie, so Grindhouse comes complete with appropriately over-the-top fake trailers and cheesy, old fashioned bumpers before each film.
It begins with a trailer for a non-existent movie called Machete, in which a Mexican day laborer is picked up off the street and hired to assassinate a political figure. The trailer is a piece of wonderfully violent lunacy, and it’s the ideal way to set the stage for the first half of Grindhouse, the Robert Rodriguez directed zombie movie Planet Terror.
Full Grindhouse review by Josh Tyler at CinemaBlend
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