Grindhouse
Synopsis
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 before each segment.
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Cast
- Kurt RussellStuntman Mike (segment "Death Proof")
- Zoë BellHerself (segment "Death Proof")
- Rosario DawsonAbernathy (segment "Death Proof")
- Vanessa FerlitoButterfly (segment "Death Proof")
- Sydney Tamiia PoitierJungle Julia (segment "Death Proof")
- Tracie ThomsKim (segment "Death Proof")
- Rose McGowanPam (segment "Death Proof") / Cherry (segment "Planet Terror")
- Jordan LaddShanna (segment "Death Proof") / Judy (segment "Thanksgiving")
- Mary Elizabeth WinsteadLee Montgomery (segment "Death Proof")
- Quentin TarantinoWarren (segment "Death Proof") / Rapist #1 (segment "Planet Terror")
Recommendations
- 100
Village Voice
This monumentally pointless movie is best summarized by a line from Planet Terror: "At some point in your life, you find a use for every useless talent you have." Rodriguez, Tarantino, and Co. aim for nothing more noble than to freak the funk, and it's about godd--- time. Go wasted, go stoned, go without your parents' permission. In paying homage to an obsolete form of movie culture, Grindhouse delivers a dropkick to ours. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Grindhouse, like "Ed Wood" and "Boogie Nights," celebrates how certain low-grade entertainment, viewed in hindsight, looks different now than it did then, since we can see the ''innocence'' of its creation -- the handmade quality of it -- in a world not yet ruled by corporate technology. - 100
L.A. Weekly
I suspect that Death Proof will throw some of its director's admirers for a loop, though it may be the most revealing thing Tarantino has yet done -- a full-throttle expression of a singular artistic temperament disguised, like so many gems of grindhouses yore, as a glittering hunk of trash. - 88
Rolling Stone
By stooping low without selling out, this babes-and-bullets tour de force gets you high on movies again. - 88
Premiere
As much as I enjoyed much of it, I hope Grindhouse doesn't start any trends. Exploitation cinema is combustible stuff that only highly trained professionals should be permitted to play with. - 88
New York Daily News
Critics are already comparing the two movies and largely agreeing that Tarantino?s story about a psychopathic stuntman who targets women for highway carnage is the best. I disagree. - 80
Variety
Planet Terror delivers only momentary kicks...while Tarantino's Death Proof is a juicy, delicious treat, its pleasures stem much less from the play with genre conventions than from great dialogue and electric performances. - 75
New York Post
To get to the best part first, Tarantino's adrenaline-pumping "Death Proof" is actually a good movie that - unlike Rodriguez's "Planet Terror," - rethinks its genre in ways that say something to contemporary audiences. And it's got some of Tarantino's best dialogue since "Pulp Fiction."
