Grindhouse (film)

Grindhouse is a 2007 American horror film double feature cowritten, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. The double feature consists of two featurelength segments, Rodriguezs Planet Terror and Tarantinos Death Proof, and is bookended by fictional trailers for upcoming attractions, advertisements, and intheater announcements. The films title derives from the U.S. film industry term grindhouse, which refers to now mostly defunct movie theaters specializing in B movies, often exploitation films, shown in a multiplefeature format. The film stars Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Josh Brolin, Naveen Andrews, Fergie, Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and stuntwoman Zo Bell, who plays herself.

In a rural town in Texas, gogo dancer Cherry Darling decides to quit her lowpaying job and find another use for her numerous useless talents. She runs into mysterious exboyfriend El Wray at the Bone Shack, a restaurant owned by J.T. Hague. Meanwhile, a group of military officials, led by the demented Lt. Muldoon, are making a business transaction with a scientist named Abby for mass quantities of a deadly biochemical agent known as DC2 codename Project Terror. Muldoon learns that Abby has an extra supply on hand and attempts to take him hostage. Abby intentionally releases the gas into the air. The gas reaches the town and turns its residents into deformed bloodthirsty, maneating psychopaths, mockingly referred to as sickos by the surviving humans. The infected townspeople are treated by the sinister Dr. William Block and his abused, neglected anesthesiologist wife Dakota at a local hospital. As the patients quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night, struggling to find safety.Three friends Arlene, Shanna, and radio disc jockey Jungle Julia spend a night in Austin, Texas for fun, unknowingly followed by a mysterious man in a soupedup 1971 Chevy Nova. The man, Stuntman Mike, stalks the young women with his death proof car, eventually killing all three. Fourteen months later, Stuntman Mike, now in Tennessee and driving a 1969 Dodge Charger, tails another group of young women Lee, Abernathy, Kim, and stuntwoman Zo a group of women working below the line in Hollywood, whose Stock 1970 Dodge Challenger proves a worthy adversary. ........

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