Some good examples of good "grind-house" films were the Sonny Chiba "Streetfighter" series and a few of the Blaxploitation films. While x-rated and super-violent, the stories were exciting and the action top-notch--and they have an artistic value not generally assumed to be possible in these style films. However, as I said, I think the idea is fatally flawed for two main reasons.
I simply think life is too short to watch sleazy crap prime example--the attempted rape scene--UGGH!! Second, there was a certain campiness in some of the films that was, at times, charming and a real product of the times. However, 30 years later, the times have changed and no matter how hard you try, you can't recreate the genre. Instead of cheap and funny, newer incarnations are different--mostly due to much higher budgets and an inability to capture the exact spirit and style.
I can see that the director TRIED especially by making the prints deliberately scratchy and including ultra-sleazy promos for fake coming attractions , but it isn't the same. Plus, I really DON'T find myself hoping that they'll make more of these films or want a steady diet of these nihilistic films. As for me, after about the 30th or 40th zombie corpse being shot to pieces or exploding when getting hit by a truck, I just felt incredibly bored by the whole thing.
Rodriquez managed to make carnage and bloodshed dull. I also noticed my IQ drop the longer I watched this movie. For the love of God, if you actually like this sort of film, don't let your kids see it! They won't be right afterwards and you'll be responsible for creating a sociopath!! Was this review helpful?
Sign in to vote. Having seen many of the original exploitation films in question, I'm pleased to say that director Robert Rodriguez gets it spot on and the look and feel of this film is just right. Things kick off on a high note with Rose McGowan go-go dancing. I've never been a fan of this actress, but that's changed right here with the role she has.
She's perfectly cast as the tough yet vulnerable dancer who loses a limb but gains a weapon in the zombie attack, and it helps that she's as hot as hell. The one thing I loved straight away was the soundtrack, especially the main theme with the saxophone playing — great stuff that had me humming along.
Anyway, the film that follows is a simple story of a zombie attack, starting off isolated incidents and building into an all-out zombie rampage. The usual scenarios are present, from the survivors holed up in a deserted diner to the killer soldiers involved in a cover-up. The biggest treat, though, lies in this film's casting; Rodriguez seems to have assembled a bunch of stars, old and new, A-list and B-list, and they come together nicely. I won't go through the bother of listing them all - the cast list is available right here on IMDb - only to say that Michael Biehn and Jeff Fahey really stand out as the kooky brothers, the latter particularly fine after years of being stuck in B-movie limbo.
The gooey gore comes thick and fast and only a few scenes descend into inanity; the Tarantino cameo is a bit of a disappointment but the rest works gloriously well. SnoopyStyle 1 January Cherry Darling Rose McGowan quits her go-go dancing job. Jeff Fahey. Ruthless gang leader Abby Naveen Andrews has some experimental gas. Muldoon Bruce Willis double-crosses him.
He shoots the canisters releasing the gas. The gas descends on the neighboring town turning people into crazed killers. William Block Josh Brolin and his wife Dr. Dakota Block Marley Shelton treat a patient with strange ailments. Sheriff Hague Michael Biehn leads the ragtag group of survivors against the rampaging mob. I like the start with McGowan and Abby's love of testicles. As the movie moves on, I feel like it is trying to follow too many lead characters.
Robert Rodriguez has a very well-made B-movie with a veneer of Grindhouse effects. It's a lot of guts, gore, explosions and destruction. The middle is a little over-extended but it is good fun. In Texas, the gang leaded by the black market dealer Abby Naveen Andrews faces a group of renegade militaries leaded by Captain Muldoon Bruce Willis in an abandoned military base.
During their shootout, Abby shoots a recipient of biological weapon, releasing an experimental highly-contagious gas that turns humans to flesh-eating zombies.
Meanwhile, in the local hospital, Dr. Block Josh Brolin sees an epidemic with many patients with the same nasty symptoms. Dakota Marley Shelton fight to survive and become the last hope to save the world.
The stylish, gore and hilarious "Planet Terror" has a great potential of cult-movie, with an immediate association with "Braindead" and "Night of the Living Dead". Robert Rodriguez basically updated the storyline of George Romero's trilogy; cast a great group of actors and actresses and added lots and lots of blood and top notch special effects.
The result is one of the funniest movies I have recently seen. My vote is eight. And I still kinda loved it despite of that fact I can't tell you, but I can tell you that viewers discretion is advised! You haven't seen anything yet, I'd say! But as in FDTD, this is all shown in a hilarious silly way, so it can't be taken seriously being a Grindhouse homage, one could expect that , because it's just so over the top The story is nice for a b-movie, but it does seem to have a lot of breaks.
At least that's what I thought. The pace is not really helping that either. And although this too, is something that was an ingredient to Grindhouse movies, I did hope that it wouldn't be an issue as it unfortunately is With 90 minutes and a reel missing , it still feels too long Nevertheless, I had my fun watching it! Terrorists and the military square off in a small town for a chemical that chemically alters humanity into A chemical somehow connected to Osama bin Laden.
Getting caught up in this are the local police, a wrecker, a go-go dancer turned comedienne and a local cook with a very special barbecue recipe.
Oh my, what will become of them? In the theater, this film was the first half of "Grindhouse", and by far the more action-packed one "Death Proof" being the other half.
And there's a drastic difference -- "Death Proof" has the dialogue and the superior music, but "Planet Terror" has the action, the blood, the humor and the pure campiness people were coming to see. The cast makes this film. His right-hand woman or, more accurately, his right-legged woman is Rose McGowan playing Cherry Darling. While McGowan was alright in "Death Proof", she shines here -- more action, a better, sexier appearance.
She is awesome with her stunt leg first a wooden peg and later a machine gun. I understand this was edited in later with computers, but it looks good and she was crucial to everything lining up right. Marley Shelton is Dr. Her husband is the deranged Dr. Doc Block was a great addition to the story - -a subplot that didn't need to even be here but added something important Jeff Fahey J. Bruce Willis Lt.
Muldoon as Lt. Naveen Andrews Abby as Abby. Julio Oscar Mechoso Romy as Romy. Fergie Tammy as Tammy as Stacy Ferguson. Nicky Katt Joe as Joe. Hung Nguyen Dr.
Crane as Dr. Skip Reissig Skip as Skip. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.
An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called "sickos" threaten to take over the whole town and the world.
Fully Loaded. Did you know Edit. Trivia The appearance of Bruce Willis in a minor role is a subtle nod to an old marketing trick often employed by Grindhouse makers. They would contract a big-name movie star to appear in their movie for one day, for a few frontal shots only, while the rest of the scenes were done with a double filmed from the back.
The infected tore off and took her right leg along the roadside, the leather boot was still on it. At the end, when Cherry shoots the last infected in Mexico, the close-up shows she shot its head off down to the brain stem.
But a split second later, when they show it fall to the ground, the head is mostly intact. When Tammy's Volvo breaks down, she parks it just in front of the sign that says ' Military base '.
In further shots, the car is quite far from it. When El Wray is going to Cherry's hospital room after the outbreak, the fire on the walls are all fire-bars emitting the flames on the bottom.
During the opening scene where Cherry is dancing there is a mirror in the background, in which, you can see the crew filming. At the last gun fight scene in the movie, Cherry fires more than 3 grenade rounds without having to reload.
In fact, the M grenade launchers only have a 1 grenade capacity. Fully Loaded You might feel a little prick. Instead it went to Freddy Rodriguez. The original title for Planet Terror was "Project Terror". Robert Rodriguez specifically wrote the part of Dakota for Marley Shelton after working with her on Sin City Robert Rodriguez wrote the first 30 pages of the script for Planet Terror back in The scene where Wray and Cherry burst out on the motorcycle and Cherry fires the gun was filmed first and then redone with CGI.
The scene where Dakota jumps out of the window and lands on top of the trash cans was filmed twice, the first shot had a stunt double falling onto a crash mat from the original height and the second had her falling onto the trash cans from a scaffolding at a lower height. A car driving by was put in to disguise the switch. A box of Great White Bites cereal can be seen in Dr.
Block's kitchen. This fictional cereal can also be seen in Rodriguez' kids film, Shorts. In the scene at the beginning of the movie in the go-go club , Cherry is zipping up the boot of her right leg when she says "I need a dramatic change in my life".
Her right leg is also the same leg which is later amputated. Total body count of Planet Terror segment is In Mexico this film was exhibited in its original unrated version in cinemas.
Felix Sabates, who plays Dr. Felix , is in fact a real doctor and is actually director Robert Rodriguez's personal physician. Categories Movie. Dakota Block. Choose to download from Rapidshare,Megaupload or Pointupload.
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