Tattered images scratched and torn from the constant grind of projectors in seedy theaters.
April 5, 2007 (Press Release) --
In an age of pristine digital images and violence watered down to the point where 13 year olds can see it without a parent, old pals Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez present a different night out at the movies.
Nauseating gore from a plague of putrid zombies. Savage assaults by a psycho killer in a muscle car. A hot chick with a machine gun attached to the stump of her recently severed leg. Entire reels missing from the films.
"Grindhouse, opening Friday," is a three-hour double feature punctuated by corny old concession ads and fake trailers for violent exploitation movies that look even more rabid and bloody than the real ones Tarantino and Rodriguez directed.
"Pulp Fiction" creator Tarantino and "Sin City" director Rodriguez deliberately inserted scratches and little hiccups where frames of film went missing to simulate the wear-and-tear of celluloid that has seen better days.
A throwback to the twin bills at drive-ins and rundown moviehouses that helped hook the filmmakers on cinema as kids, "Grindhouse" had its start from a visit Rodriguez paid to Tarantino's house and the directors' shared love of Roger Corman's low-budget crime thriller "Rock All Night."
Rodriguez noticed a double-feature poster for that flick and another old B-movie, "Dragstrip Girl." He and told Tarantino that he had the same poster at home. It revived an idea Rodriguez had long had about doing a double-bill movie.
Rodriguez contributed the zombie flick "Planet Terror," whose cast includes Bruce Willis, Freddy Rodriguez, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn and Rose McGowan as the woman who ends up with a machine-gun leg.
Tarantino cast Kurt Russell as the maniac driver in "Death Proof," about an ex-stuntman who uses his beefed-up car to terrorize women, including McGowan, Rosario Dawson, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and stuntwoman Zoe Bell.
Source: http://movies.yahoo.com
Nauseating gore from a plague of putrid zombies. Savage assaults by a psycho killer in a muscle car. A hot chick with a machine gun attached to the stump of her recently severed leg. Entire reels missing from the films.
"Grindhouse, opening Friday," is a three-hour double feature punctuated by corny old concession ads and fake trailers for violent exploitation movies that look even more rabid and bloody than the real ones Tarantino and Rodriguez directed.
"Pulp Fiction" creator Tarantino and "Sin City" director Rodriguez deliberately inserted scratches and little hiccups where frames of film went missing to simulate the wear-and-tear of celluloid that has seen better days.
A throwback to the twin bills at drive-ins and rundown moviehouses that helped hook the filmmakers on cinema as kids, "Grindhouse" had its start from a visit Rodriguez paid to Tarantino's house and the directors' shared love of Roger Corman's low-budget crime thriller "Rock All Night."
Rodriguez noticed a double-feature poster for that flick and another old B-movie, "Dragstrip Girl." He and told Tarantino that he had the same poster at home. It revived an idea Rodriguez had long had about doing a double-bill movie.
Rodriguez contributed the zombie flick "Planet Terror," whose cast includes Bruce Willis, Freddy Rodriguez, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn and Rose McGowan as the woman who ends up with a machine-gun leg.
Tarantino cast Kurt Russell as the maniac driver in "Death Proof," about an ex-stuntman who uses his beefed-up car to terrorize women, including McGowan, Rosario Dawson, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and stuntwoman Zoe Bell.
Source: http://movies.yahoo.com
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