Last Friday night I was looking for something to do and ended up inviting a couple people over for an impromptu movie night. Upon arrival, the guests did not really know what we'd be watching. I had my top choice ready, but presented a few options to them. We ended up going with my top choice...Grindhouse. Back in 2007, an awesome idea became a reality. Two directors, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, decided to work on a collaboration. These two men decided to try to bring back the grindhouse movie-going experience that was popular in the 1970's. A grindhouse was a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. Exploitation films were non-mainstream movies that often depicted offensive material (to the common movie-goer) and were usually of low budget quality. Examples of themes used in exploitation films include bikers/cars, blaxploitation, cannibals, nazis, women in prisons, eco-terrorism, sexploitation, slashers and spaghetti westerns. It was in honor of this experience that Rodriguez and Tarantino created Grindhouse.
Tarantino's film is Death Proof, a movie which combines the grindhouse themes of cars and slashers. The car theme is based on the carsploitation films of the 70's, such as Vanishing Point, Death Race 2000 and Cannonball. These films are car-heavy, usually including muscle cars and car chases or races. Death Proof is about a stunt driver aptly named Stuntman
Oh, and check out all of the awesome movie posters...