PREMISE: The Grindhouse in a town was the low budget movie theater that showed exploitation movies and you could stay in all day. Two of our finest directors visit this genre, and there are (fake) trailers for more Grindhouse films coming soon.

PLANET TERROR Cherry (Rose McGowan) and partner try to stop the Terror of the Zombies

DEATH PROOF Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) preys on women from his car.

DIRECTORS::
Quentin Tarantino "Death Proof"
Robert Rodriguez "Planet Terror"

SCREENPLAY::
Quentin Tarantino "Death Proof"
Robert Rodriguez "Planet Terror"

DIRECTORS OF FAKE TRAILERS:
Rob Zombie "Werewolf Women of the S.S."
Edgar Wright "Don't Scream"
Eli Roth "Thanksgiving"
Robert Rodriguez "Machete"

Stuntman Mike	Cheerleader	Doctor Block

KEVIN'S REVIEW (opening night): This is the most fun I've had at the movies since the new Bond movie. And boy do they give you your money's worth. Two movies and some fake trailers inbetween. We all know the premise here: make it like the Seventies and those grindhouse movies. It's actually like being transported back to those days and watching the cheezy trailers, the commercial for the place two doors down. And the movies themselves. Gross, outrageous, funny as hell, taking no prisoners. Subject matter like festering zombies with enormous blisters and pus, plus women not afraid to be women. Which movie is better? I don't care. Both were great. The better question is what do they share--a love of the grindhouse genre. Lots of action, some quick exposition dialogue, some urgency and some babes to look at. Heads sliced off, gross-out action, obviously slimey double dealers and beheadings. Did I leave anything out? Or yes, a stuntwoman on a priceless classic car being smashed up.

PLANET TERROR follows a stripper (Rose McGowan) who wants to be a stand-up comedian. Her boyfriend wants his jacket back now they bust up. From the bust up she looks great, but chaos seems to break loose at the Army base nearby when some chemical turns people into Zombies and the flesh starts a popping. The local hospital is quickly overworked. In the second movie DEATH PROOF, Stuntman Mike is a serial killer using his safe stunt car to kill women on the road he encounters. It's like RESERVOIR DOGS for women. There's some nice writing flourishes like the nurse who wants to leave his husband is the same nurse in the second film when Stuntman Mike is hurt. And the actress Rose McGowan is seen brunette in one movie and bleached blonde in the other. The pacing and tone of both films is totally different. One is about a singular person screwing with death, and the other about a careless Government playing with death. One is intentional, the other unintentional, but it makes no difference. Death is death. Both movies are very funny in how they work this grindhouse genre mentality. The grossness is lookaway gross, yet laugh out loud funny and squirm to in a large audience on Friday night is really the movies IS ALL ABOUT.