Starring: Rose McGowan, Kurt Russell, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Country: USA
Genre: Horror, Action

The experience of seeing Grindhouse in the theater as a double-billing in a grimy second-run theater was definitely one of the more fun I’ve had in the last decade.  Technically it might not make sense to classify this as one film, but when you separate them the appeal immediately decreases as neither are ‘great’ stand-alone films. Sitting through the ridiculousness that is Planet Terror, and the one-note build-up that is Deathproof, back-to-back with fake movie trailers in between is just something that doesn’t happen at the movies. Ever. It’s a shame that this hasn’t been developed for home video the way it should be, (yet,) because the longevity of Grindhouse comes from the act of creating a whole midnight get-together with your friends to watch the whole package. Planet Terror is gooey gorey zombie fun and Deathproof is such a bizarre concept that leads to one of the most satisfying conclusions that one would never know they would want. I’d definitely pay money to see a special screening of this again…at midnight…with a 40 oz. of my favorite beer.