The new double feature horror movie “Grindhouse,” written by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, is provocative, gory, and, interestingly enough, it included tidbits of dry humor randomly throughout the dialogue. Amazingly however, you get two crappy movies for the price of one.
The plots were stupid and contained absolutely no substance in my opinion.
The first feature by Rodriguez was about some sort of viral infection that some military men had caught and had spread the infection to civilians apparently causing them to become cannibalistic beasts who eat the body parts and scrape out the brains of those who haven’t been infected. What I couldn’t figure out was the relevance of the chopped off testicles.
The first film was absolutely disgusting, and for those who enjoy doing the dinner and a movie thing and decide to go see “Grindhouse,” I’m not even sure what to advise. If you see it before having dinner you might lose your appetite. If you see it after dinner you might lose your dinner. So, it’s pretty much a lose-lose situation.
The second feature by Tarantino had me wondering what exactly goes on in this man’s mind for him to come up with this material. Again, the plot was very stupid. Titled “Deathproof,” the second film features Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, who seems to have a murdering women with his car fetish. I didn’t quite understand how he goes about choosing his victims, but he preys on women, takes their photos and then kills them by crashing into them or running them off the road, which they call in the movie “vehicular homicide.”
Russell manages to murder a handful of women and gets away with it until he runs into three women who are evidently stuntwomen themselves and catch up to him after his failed attempts to wreck them and they beat his sorry behind to a bloody pulp.
In between films, there were fake movie trailers, which had the audience in the theater roaring with laughter, although I myself wasn’t catching on to the perverse humor. Basically, I found “Grindhouse” to be nothing more than movie vomit. I can’t believe it got four stars.