"This car is 100% death proof. Only to get the benefit of it, honey, you REALLY need to be sitting in my seat."

There is rarely a time, when Quentin Tarantino makes a  bad film, unless you count Kill Bill. Then when you include other good directors like Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie, nothing bad can come from it. All of these directors brought us the extravaganza Grindhouse. This movie includes two movies in one, Planet Terror and Death Proof.
Planet Terror is about a lethal chemical that gets released into the air and turns people into zombies. El Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), a truck driver and outlaw, runs into his ex-girlfriend Cherry (Rose McGowan) and the two are attacked by zombies. Cherry gets her leg ripped off and El Wray brings her to the hospital, where there are tons of patients coming in with bites and infections. El Wray runs into Sheriff Hague (Michael Biehn), who's been looking for Wray. He's about to take Wray away, when all hell breaks loose. Wray saves Cherry and they and the police, all meet at Hague's brother J.T.'s (Jeff Fahey) restaurant. With a lot of people working together, they try and fend off the zombies. Wray makes a Cherry a new leg, which turns out to be a machine gun. As the group is escaping they are captured by the army. What El Wray and the others don't know is that the soldiers are infected too. They must all work together to infected army and the swarms of zombies.
This the perfect horror/action movie for a Saturday night or any night. The gore and effects on the zombies and infected people looks gross, but great. This movie is also filled with tons of cameos, including: Bruce Willis, Tom Savini, Josh Brolin, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt and Marley Shelton. This movie is super-fun to watch and has that kind of cheese, that is the best kind of cheesy.
The second film is Death Proof. The story is about a stuntman named Stuntman Mike, who kills five women after meeting them all at a bar. He does his killing with his "death proof" stunt car. Soon after his injuries heal, he is out stalking his next victims. They turn out to be three girls working on a film in town and their good friend professional stunt woman Zoe Bell. The girls: Abernathy (Rosario Dawson), Kim (Tracie Thoms), Lee (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Zoe, go looking for a 1970 Dodge Challenger, which is exactly like the one from the movie "Vanishing Point". When they get to the farm that has one, they leave Lee with the owner and take it for a test run. Zoe wants to play a stunt game called "Ship's Mast" and convinces Kim to do it. While driving down the back-roads with Zoe on the hood, Stuntman Mike and his Death Proof car come out of nowhere. He starts playing and scaring the girls, by smashing his car into them and nearly knocking Zoe off the hood. Mike thinks it's all fun and games, until the girls hit back. Soon enough it turns into Stuntman Mike being the hunted and he's scared, just as the girls were. It all ends in a big crash and the girls get their revenge.
This movie is my favourite of the two. Its car chases are amazing, they just don't make them like they used to, but this movie stays true to the old style. The final, long chase scene has no CGI used, just stunt-drivers. It looks so perfect, compared to watching something that has used CGI to enhance the chase. This movie has everything else a great movie needs. The perfect amount of comedy, sexy girls and great writing, which Tarantino, is always good for. This movie has the feel of all those 60's and 70's car movies and makes you brain have an overdose of nostalgia. Kurt Russell was definitely the right pick for the role of Stuntman Mike. He's got that half nice guy and half evil killer, down packed.
Other than the two films, this Dvd also has the fake trailers that were shown, during it's theatrical release. Those being; "Don't", directed by Edgar Wright, "Thanksgiving", directed by Eli Roth, "Werewolf Women of the S.S.", directed by Rob Zombie and "Machete", also directed by Robert Rodriguez. These are all hilarious and well made, for movies that weren't even real. The trailer for "Hobo with a Shotgun", that was shown in theatres, is not on the Dvd for some reason. Since Grindhouse was released, two of the trailers have been made into great films. Those being, Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun. This special edition is a treat to own for any Dvd collector.
Grindhouse was released in 2007 and directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Released by Alliance Films, Dimension Films and Troublemaker Studios.

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Grindhouse: #407