Grindhouse (2007)
A double feature that'll tear you in two!
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino · Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.
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Director
Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino
Cast
Kurt Russell
Stuntman Mike (segment "Death Proof") 
Rose McGowan
Pam (segment "Death Proof") / Cherry (segment "Planet Terror") 
Zoë Bell
Herself (segment "Death Proof") 
Freddy Rodríguez
Wray (segment "Planet Terror") 
Rosario Dawson
Abernathy (segment "Death Proof") 
Marley Shelton
Dr. Dakota Block (McGraw) (segment "Death Proof") / Dakota (segment "Planet Terror") 
Vanessa Ferlito
Butterfly (segment "Death Proof") 
Josh Brolin
Block (segment "Planet Terror") 
Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Jungle Julia (segment "Death Proof") 
Jeff Fahey
JT (segment "Planet Terror") 
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Lee Montgomery (segment "Death Proof") 
Michael Biehn
Sheriff Hague (segment "Planet Terror") User Reviews (2)
***Zombies, dancing skanks, rednecks and killer stunt cars*** “Grindhouse” (2007) features two separate movies: “Planet Terror” by Robert Rodriguez and “Death Proof” by Quentin Tarantino. Together, they’re called “Grindhouse” because they’re a deliberate attempt to recreate the experience of a double feature at a B movie house in the mid/late 60s-70s with the prints intentionally marred by scratches and blemishes or, in one case, a whole reel supposedly missing. Trailers for fake movies, like “Machete,” are also part of the package. “Planet Terror” involves a biochemical outbreak in central Texas that (big surprise) turns people into zombies and the ragtag group that teams-up to fight ’em, led by Freddy Rodríguez and Michael Biehn, the latter a sheriff. Hotties Rose McGowan and Marley Shelton are on hand, the former acquiring a machine gun implant in …
Grindhouse exploits its modern B-movie experience through a bloody expressionistic tribute. Two feature films. Four fictional trailers (five if you’re lucky...). And an authentic conceptual presentation of the 70s exploitation genre, missing reels and all. Rodriguez/Tarantino’s admiration for cinema in general is tangible. Both a credible experiment in genre resurrection and a fetish for babes, blood and bolted machine gun legs. It is, at its core, a retrospective piece of entertainment. But does the double feature presentation, trailers included, work as a solid film in itself? Yes. Just about. Two of the four fictitious trailers worked. Wright’s ‘Don’t’ replicated the essence of Hammer Film Productions perfectly with a quintessential amount of British campiness to illustrate the ghoulish plot. Not to mention the laugh out loud vagueness of the title. Roth’s (yes, this …
