Grindhouse
Dir: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
2007
****
What a great idea, make two films back to back in the old Grindhouse style complete with cheesy acting, jumpy pictures and overexposed film. It could have been awful but luckily it wasn't, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez know their films. The fake trailers, which were always part of the fun of Grindhouse pictures, were very well done although Rob Zombie's effort is a bit weak compared to the others. It's brilliant that some of the trailers have now been made in to full length features. I think Planet Terror is much better for being cut down in its original print than the extended release but I think, and it looks as if I'm the only one, that Death Proof is much better in its extended version. Still, they could have both been extras on the DVD, why the producers decided to separate these films is a mystery to me, stupid producers!

Machete - Played brilliantly by Danny Trejo and thankfully made into its own film.  

Werewolf Women of the SS - I like the overall idea but Rob Zombie is a horror fan, not a horror film maker.

 Don't - Edgar Wright hones the tone of British Hammer Horror of the 1970s to great effect

Thanksgiving - Eli Roth is a twisted genius, here is some proof.

Hobo With a Shotgun - filmmakers Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill won a competition to have their short entered into the film and to great success. The full length version came out in 2011.