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A grindhouse or action house [1] is an American term for a theatre that mainly shows low-budget horror, splatter, and exploitation films for adults. According to historian David Church, this theater type was named after the "grind policy", a film-programming strategy dating back to the early 1920s which continuously showed films at cut-rate ...
Grindhouse is a 2007 American double bill.It consists of two films, Planet Terror, a horror comedy written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Death Proof, a slasher film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles.
Grindhouse Releasing gave the film a collector's edition Blu-ray release through their online store limited to 2,000 units, which was released and sold out in October 2024. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] This edition features an exclusive slipcover bearing the alternate poster artwork for the film under the title The Hollywood Hillside Strangler . [ 11 ]
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Grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. These theatres were most popular throughout the 1970s and early 1980s in New York City and other urban centers, mainly in North America, but began a long decline during the mid-1980s with the advent of home video.
Sammy Harkham's epic graphic novel took 14 years to create and captures a Los Angeles — and a movie business — that no longer exists.
In 2007, when “Grindhouse” came out, the whole feel of that trailer — what made it satire — is that it was a shade too goofy in its sadism, too gruesomely absurd; it all went a little too far.
Sleazoid Express (1980–1985, and later editions) was the house journal of the exploitation film scene in New York circa 1964-1985. Founded as a one-sheet (later to expand to four to six pages) by Bill Landis, an NYU graduate, projectionist, and devotee of the crime-ridden grindhouses, the magazine not only captured the genre affections but the whole Times Square milieu of drugs, violence and ...