Nova Scotians Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill's Hobo with a Shotgun took dead aim at low-rent Exterminator -style revenge thrillers. The teasers were sly, dead-on spoofs of the outrageous, badly dubbed, half-assed, sucker-born-every-minute skin, gore and action movies that were once so much a part of the refreshingly seedy underbelly of American popular culture.
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Deathproof and Planet Terror were both enormously entertaining, however Deathproof was arguably superior because of Zoe Bell's heart-stopping stunt work on the hood of a racing 1970 Dodge Challenger, which was one of the most terrifying things ever captured on film.Īside from Bell, the most inspired feature of Grindhouse was the inclusion of a handful of faux movie trailers for nonexistent 70s-style horror and exploitation films. Though Grindhouse was a commercial disappointment, critics and moviegoers who saw the film lauded it as a viable reboot of a once-dormant genre.
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Critics also made much of the film's 3-hour plus running time, which may have seemed a tad daunting even for die-hard Tarantino and Rodriguez fans. Movies with titles like Tw o Thousand Maniacs Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Night of the Bloody Apes -the sort of breathlessly transgressive fare that teenage boys live for.ĭespite the great Dragstrip Girl -style promotional artwork, Grindhouse was ultimately let down by a publicity campaign that oddly failed to find its audience. It was called Grindhouse ( Dimension Films, 2007), and consisted of two original films, Deathproof and Planet Terror, which were intended as an homage to the schlocky, violent, over-the-top sorts of movies that tended to play at shabby downtown grindhouses and rural drive-in theaters in the 60s and 70s. What makes Machete unique, apart from the reportedly spectacular level of graphic, Scarface -style violence, is that it may be the first theatrical film ever produced after the trailer was made.Ī few years ago, Rodriguez and pal Quentin Tarantino were inspired to direct the first authentic, intentional B-movie double feature of the post-drive-in era. They're all about guns, girls, tough guys, psychos, and massive, waste-laying paybacks on a thermonuclear scale. We needn't expect much in the way of character development from Machete, but that's not the point of Rodriguez's high octane shoot-em-ups. 1, at a midnight screening in the 1,100-seat Sala Grande theater at the famous Palazzo del Cinema theater complex on the Lido. Rodriguez's blood-soaked, star-studded actioner will not be competing in the festival, however the witching-hour screening will be heavily attended by the international press, which will likely fuel the growing buzz in the runup to the film's U.S. The 67th annual Venice Film Festival kicks off with a bang and a body count this year as Robert Rodriguez's keenly anticipated revenge thriller Machete premieres on opening night, Sept.