Welcome Sleaze, Welcome Grindhouse.
grind house
–noun Slang.
1. a burlesque house, esp. one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
2. a movie theater that shows films throughout the day and all or most of the night.
Its here, Now. There are preview reports of GRINDHOUSE doing rounds of film portals as I write this. Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez’s new passion come alive on screen. Their love for 70’s open-hearted, in your face mix of camp and ‘no-holds-barred’ fan boy horror. The film releases tomorrow.
The film is touted to be “a wildly uneven night-out at the movies”, an experience that gives you that roadside meat feeling. The film will showcase bloodier versions of Hunny-Bunny’s and Choppers and Bonnie Situations. There is gonna be blood spattered, flesh removed, and flying bullets and wheels rolling down the greasy streets at 200 miles an hour. It’s as Tarantino as it could get. It’s as neat it gets. It’s as 70’s drive-in geek’s delight as it could get.
When was the last time you saw stuff that you thought was done trashily on purpose? When was the last time you took a film home when you liked the cover not knowing head and tail of its cast and story?
Welcome to Grindhouse!
There are specially made fake trailers (coming from talents like Eli Roth (Hostel), Edgar Wright and the likes.)
The stuff on screen will not be something too hard to imagine. Its fun factor and subsequent cult status will lie in its unpredictability. As Edgar Wright says,
“There’s one shot of everything in it, that’s the joke of it, that’s it’s completely non-sensical. One of those Eurpoean style horror films in the 70’s. You kind of watch the trailer and think “What the hell is that about?” It’s got a haunted house, but it’s got cannibals in it. Kind of like The Legend of Hell House.
I put in as many random elements as I could. And the voice over tells you nothing about the plot. It involves vampires, possession, cannibal men, creepy kids, people with like milk stigmata, and adult baby covered in his own feces. Will Arnett does the voice over. “
Babes in tight shirts, revving engines, blazing guns, senseless explosions, gross out horror and missing reels: the new Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration Grindhouse promises to bring the kiss kiss bang bang fun of sleazy seventies exploitation cinema to the multiplex. Like their previous collaboration From Dusk to Dawn, the film blends Rodriguez’ taste for trashy horror with Tarantino’s ultra-violent crime cool, on top of a retro framing that hasn’t been seen quite like this since Kentucky Fried Movie. Fake trailers and unappetizing advertising for a local taco joint separates two feature films, one by each director. But the double bill is wildly uneven, and you could be excused for cutting the night at the grind house short.
Rodriguez directs Planet Terror, a zombie film in the tradition of Shaun of the Dead.
Rob Zombie directs Werewolf Women of the S.S., featuring Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu.
Tarantino directs Death Proof, a slasher, and Cowgirls in Sweden, a sexploitation faker.
Edgar Wright directs Don’t, a Britsploitation meets Mondo trailer.
Eli Roth directs Thanksgiving, a slasher meets zombie short.
Its dancing time, baby!
Its time to enjoy the futility, the non-sensical world of sleaze, horror, ‘B grade’ school, far far away from any studio niceties, musical extravaganzas, bio-pics, war-sagas, and all the other yawn-friendly instruments. Its time to quit that jazzy playstation and pick up that dusty comic book in your backyard.
So put your worst clothes on and enjoy the show!
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[...] Original post by: Tushar [...]
dying to watch it. hope it releases in india.
April 6 has been marked on my Calendar for almost a year now as the day this movie releases. I am hoping to leave work early tomorrow to see this. Besides Rodriguez+Zombies? Few things can make this girl more excited…
Let’s hope my review does your preview justice!
Rony, i would rather wait than losing the film to the hype n hoopla that happens here, as in the case of 300. also i dont want it to be butchered for the sake of public screening. i heard its already been cut cus of the excessive violence…:(
t!, ya, this is one film that stuck to the timelines. waiting for your views on it, what else can i do sittin here….LOL! you make me jealous!
I think it will be another stupid movie by Tarantino and rodriguez. I don`t understand the hype attached to both of these filmamkers. Take tarantino,
Pulp Fiction- is his only fantastic Film (which is also extremely overrated)
Reservoir Dogs is decent, I didn`t like Jackie Brown, Kill BIll was Garbage. Tarantino is going down, he has nothing to offer except nonsensical fantasies about vampires.
Remember last time Rodriguez and Tarantino Collaborated , anyone remembers the shitty movie the made - “FROM DUSK TILL DAWN”.
Ive not seen rodriguez famous film- El Mariachi so dont know about him much.
tarantino, rodriguez, zombies, hotties, zombie hotties, adrenaline-pumping action, BLOOD, GORE, HORROR, MAYHEM!!!! APRIL 6TH!!! TOMORROW!!! LOVING ITTTTT :d :d/ =p~
@ Amit - I was going to address why Rodriguez is brilliant, and why Tarantino is still worth watching, even after he seems to have blown his creative wad, but I think striker’s comment sums up why this movie is worth watching better than I can.
From Dusk till Dawn is great fun. So was Four Rooms. I love it when they work together. Neither director may make “GREAT CINEMA” in the minds of most serious cinema lovers (although I will disagree), but they make extremely likeable and watchable films, and when the guns are pumping, as well as the jokes and the music, then a Friday night at the movies watching any movie they make is money well spent!!!
@striker, cheers! :d/
@t!, no explanations needed where we hear these names! why i like tarantino? why rodriguez is good? no answers….
and i can stand and justify their cinema in any ‘great cinema’ discussion, but wouldnt do that.it wont be justice to their films.
who needs answers when you got GRINDHOUSE!
:d
eggjjacktly.. answers, explanations and analyses be DAMNED when just a trailer has the ability to pump you up!!
hey Striker, check these 11 short clips from the film:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/media/player.php?id=4424
tushar, thanks for that! i just saw the pocket bike clip… and was smilin throughout at the zombies getting run over
i’m not going to watch anymore.. i wanna enjoy the rest in the theater!!
LOL! i can understand that man!
i loved the one called “ava gardner” feat the man himself….”its simplicity itself”
this man is ENTERTAINMENT even while he doesnt give a rat’s a** about it. i thought our very own RGV will become like him some day, but guess too much to expect. you cant have another Tarantino!
check out this cool interview where he is funny and open about everything ranging from the NBK rift to the Secret inside the Suitcase mystery in PF to Inglorious Bastards to Vega Brothers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLyWnfR_xc
Trantino and Rodriguez rock. “Sin city” was awesome. I will try to sneak out for couple of hours when my kid is sleeping sometime this weekend
Amit Singhji…
Aapko Tarantinoji/Rodriguezji pasand nahi hai? Yeh toh bade dukh ki baat hai. Ham sabki duayee aapke saath hai. Bhagwan aapko jaldi theek kare is bimari se. Aisi bimari mere dushman ko bhi na lage!
Translation
Your Highness Amit Singh
You dont like T/R?That is so sad. Our wishes & sympathies are with you my brother. May God cure you of this illness very soon. I wouldn’t want my enemies to have this problem!
lol@@#@#@%!##%^#@*&!lol
I won’t go as far as saying that Tarantino is over-rated… And I’ve loved some of Rogriguez’s earlier films… but its just that “Grindhouse” is not my kind of cinema… was never really into the “Night of the Living Dead” or “Friday the 13th” style zombie/slasher thrillers of the 80’s either so overall not really excited about Grindhouse…
I loved “Resovior Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” and, to an extent, Four Rooms. But that was the early 90’s and I haven’t liked a thing he’s done since (though I haven’t watched the CSI episode he directed…).
Nope, not even the Kill Bill series.
As for Rogriguez… This guys got range… from “Desperado” and “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (just awesome films!) to Spy Kids (kiddy-crap, but I suppose there’s an audience for that considering the sequels).
I hate to say it but Sin City just made me sick… I understand it was meant to be dark, violent and disturbing… I just didn’t enjoy being so damn disturbed…
What I would love to see is Tarantino/Rogriguez collaborate on something like what we saw in “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” meets “Pulp Fiction”… an edgy thriller with an uncanny narrative style… that would be unreal.
I posted a few words on another site after watching the film - I had no clue bout the film’s hype or making, since I have been offline for a long time and last heard of the film on release, so here was my two cents worth..
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Saw Grindhouse. Will post details later but liked Tarantino’s fit of pure mad scientist eccentric whim in the name of a film section more than Rodriquez’ zombie flick. Folks expecting a film film avoid this - this is just for fanboys. Tarantino’s film is just two hardcore chapters for film students on how to do the best car chase n stunts scene without any fuckin cgi, and of course the mindblowing head on collision scene before.
Our friend Rodriquez sticks to his zombie flicks roots mostly and delivers something right out of the Dawn of the Dead era - not quite my cup of tea, but the genius quite shows through for fans of the genre (maybe) and Rodriquez. I for one have never liked him much, except for Sin City in parts, and of course the uber cool From Dusk Till Dawn.
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Someone came back asking some questions so I added some more :
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Trailers are fun - there are just 3, as opposed to the many planned when Tarantino announced the film - i hadnt been following the making till the film hit the world. For fans of the b grade slasher zombie flicks am sure the trailers and rodriquez’ film are pretty good - i don’t like that stuff so just sat through it to wait for tarantino’s flick. Like said his flick is not a film really - it’s just him having fun on his own. I guess he’s proved enough of what he can do with scriptwriting, screenplays, direction, dialogues - he’s done it all - here he just has fun - just that. Two rocking sub parts - the first one’s a bit draggy but it’s worth sitting through to see the mindblowing finale headon car collision, the second part’s full on adrenaline car chase/ stunts with no cgi - i personally loved it - i suspect most people will not like tarantino’s part much. Have fun.
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