Fans of America cinema fondly remember the downtown theaters and drive-ins of the 1960s and 70s that would show thrilling, action-packed, scary, and sexy double feature films in the horror, monster, biker, kung fu and exploitation genres. An homage to these classic movies, Grindhouse is a twin-bill from Quentin Tarantino, the Academy Award-winning writer and director of such classics as Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction; and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez.
In Death Proof, Tarantino gives us the badass goddess Jungle Julia, Austin’s hottest DJ. Jungle Julia and her two foxy friends cruise the streets and turn heads at the roughneck blues bars of Austin until they settle into the hottest dive around. There they meet Stuntman Mike, an aging rebel with a badass muscle car, a silver jacket, and a long scar on his face. The girls drink and dance the night away as Mike sits at the bar and watches. But Stuntman Mike is no innocent drifter. He has a secret weapon—and it’s parked outside.
Grindhouse cannot fail to be anything other than rip-roarin’ awesome.”
Grindhouse is a gift to moviegoers who miss, or missed, the experience of watching b-grade genre pictures of the sort that in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s sold what the big studios wouldn’t: usually sex and gore.”
