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Robert Rodriguez & Eli Roth Status: Completed From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. "Grindhouse" (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino's film, "Death Proof," is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in "Planet Terror." The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the '50s exploitation drive-in classics Casts Melissa Arcaro ... Venus Envy (segment "Death Proof") Electra Isabel Avellan ... Babysitter Twin #1 (segments "Death Proof"/"Planet Terror") (as Electra Avellan) Elise Avellan ... Babysitter Twin #2 (segment: "Death Proof")/Babysitter Twin #2 (segments "Death Proof"/"Planet Terror") Michael Bacall ... Omar (segment "Death Proof") Zoe Bell ... Herself (segment "Death Proof") Rosario Dawson ... Abernathy (segment "Death Proof") Omar Doom ... Nate (segment "Death Proof") Jamie L. Dunno ... Lanna Frank Friend #2 (segment "Death Proof") Eurlyne Epper ... Lanna Frank Friend #1 (segment "Death Proof") Vanessa Ferlito ... Butterfly (segment 'Death Proof') Marcy Harriell ... Marcy (segment "Death Proof") Shannon Hazlett ... Butterfly Foot Double (segment "Death Proof") Jonathan Loughran ... Jasper (segment "Death Proof") Rose McGowan ... Cherry (segment "Planet Terror")/Pam (segment "Death Proof") John McLean ... Sicko Coach Marta Mendoza ... Punky Bruiser (segment "Death Proof") Tim Murphy ... Tim the Bartender (segment "Death Proof") James Parks ... Edgar McGraw (segment "Death Proof") Michael Parks ... Earl McGraw (segments "Planet Terror"/"Death Proof") Sydney Tamiia Poitier ... Jungle Julia (segment "Death Proof") Jerili Romeo ... Ramona McGraw (segment "Planet Terror") Christine Rose ... Sicko Kurt Russell ... Stuntman Mike (segment "Death Proof") Marley Shelton ... Dr. Dakota Block (segments "Planet Terror"/"Death Proof") Monica Staggs ... Lanna Frank (segment "Death Proof") Quentin Tarantino ... The Rapist (segment "Planet Terror")/Warren (segment "Death Proof") Tracie Thoms ... Kim (segment "Death Proof") Bruce Willis ... Muldoon (segment "Planet Terror") Mary Elizabeth Winstead .. Lee (segment "Death Proof") Photos Related     Trivias Mickey Rourke was originally cast to play "Stuntman Mike" before Kurt Russell stepped in. John Carpenter, who composed to scores to his own films, was originally chosen to compose the score to Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez ended up taking over the job as composer). Both directors 'aged' the films, adding scratches, dirt, and dust, to simulate the feel of the real Grindhouse films. The "missing reels" in the Grindhouse films were an original William Castle-style idea cooked up by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino owns a print of the Oliver Reed film The Sell-Out (1976) which when he bought it was missing a reel (containing a major plot point). After watching the film in this way, Tarantino found the scenes that he didn't see created an interesting mystery which made him try to figure out what went down in those scenes. Contrary to rumors, in the Grindhouse era, frames would often be missing from films but not entire 20-30 minute reels. This was not a staple of Grindhouse cinema. Apart from US theaters, the two segments started as individual movies and had different release dates in cinemas all around the world. Kal Penn and Sylvester Stallone were offered roles in Death Proof, but both turned them down. Robert Rodriguez specifically wrote the part of Dakota for Marley Shelton after working with her on Sin City (2005). In Death Proof, Kurt Russell's character drives a 1971/1972 Chevy Nova. Quotes Trailer voiceover: Two adrenaline-fueled rollercoasters... One ticket to ride... in two and a half hourse of pure dynamite! Doc Block: I want to eat your brains... and gain your knowledge. Stuntman Mike: You got a kiss for me, my girlfriend? Kim: You know I can't let you go. Extended Links |
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