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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.
The documentary chronicles the history of the American exploitation film from the days of Thomas Edison to contemporary films of the 21st century. [3] The film features interviews with John Landis, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, Don Edmonds, Fred Williamson, Allison Anders, James Gordon White, Larry Cohen, William Lustig, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Judy Brown, Jeremy Kasten, Jonathan Kaplan, Bob Minor ...
Hollywood 90028 is a 1973 American exploitation film written, produced, and directed by Christina Hornisher [1] [5] and starring Christopher Augustine and Jeannette Dilge. It follows an isolated cinematographer in Los Angeles whose feelings of alienation lead him to murder. Completed in 1973, the film was not released theatrically until late 1976.
Sammy Harkham's epic graphic novel took 14 years to create and captures a Los Angeles — and a movie business — that no longer exists.
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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.
Hobo with a Shotgun is a 2011 exploitation black comedy action film directed by Jason Eisener and written by John Davies. [5] [6] Based on Eisener's fictitious trailer of the same name from Grindhouse (2007), it is the second feature-length adaptation of a fictitious Grindhouse trailer, following Robert Rodriguez's Machete (2010).