Not so much an authoritative study as an avid fan’s mash-up, “American Grindhouse” is a sprawling but amusing CliffsNotes-like history of various disreputable subgenres — everything from nudie cuties ...
Ever since Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez joined forces to make their double feature film “Grindhouse,” there’s been a resurgence of interest in the classic exploitation film. Exploitation ...
It would have been easy for this doc exploring the grindhouse-exploitation genre to just throw a bunch of outrageous clips together and call it a day—but instead it’s an informative, entertaining ...
Gravitas Ventures has inked a two-picture deal with Lux Digital Pictures Inc. to bring two documentaries to North American audiences via VOD (Video on Demand). One of the docs, Elijah Drenner’s ...
They never stood a chance of getting respect from arbiters of high culture, but "Two Thousand Maniacs!," "Color Me Blood Red," "She-Devils on Wheels," "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" and several dozen ...
If you're not familiar with the 2010 documentary "American Grindhouse," you can check out the trailer here (it won't let me embed). The husband and I watched it this weekend (on Netflix, surprise!) ...
A grindhouse is the kind of movie theater where they don't stop the movie -- don't raise the house lights, even -- when an audience member is killed, and where (if you're director Joe Dante, whose ...
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"They had no idea what the fuck they were watching," Tarantino says about his 2007 double feature with Robert Rodriguez. “Well, in America they got ‘Grindhouse.’ In the UK you got ‘Death Proof.’ With ...