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The shared love of exploitation movies, B movies, and other trash treasures can be found in the DNA throughout all of Robert Rodriguz (Spy Kids, From Dusk Till Dawn) and Quentin Tarantino’s (Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds) careers. In 2007, they embarked on a project, while also enlisting the help of fellow trash lovers Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, and Eli Roth, to bring back the kind of dirty, lurid, vulgar movies they loved as a kid and that they would watch on video. Taking its name from the slang term these movie houses and drive in theatres were called (from the way the reels would just grind through projector after projector), the two created a bizarre and brilliant memory project, a real double feature with their own versions, odes, and idealizations of glorious B-movies: Rodriguez with his zombie apocalypse extravaganza Planet Terror, starring Rose McGowan as a stripper with a machine gun leg; and Tarantino’s Death Proof, a slasher movie where the killer uses a souped up muscle car to take out his victims, with Kurt Russell as psychotic Stuntman Mike. A thrillingly entertaining experiment in nostalgia, each film featuring favorite tropes and cliches and riddled with scratches and film damage, Grindhouse relishes in the beauty of cinematic vulgarity.