Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Great old school ridiculous zombie horror movie. I'd watched it years ago, and decided to watch it again. Very entertaining. Military coverups, zombies, strippers with gun legs... Fun movie.

Amazing.

I love any and all movies he has had anything to do with the man is pure gold

You know Hollywood has probably gone too far when film-makers consciously set out to make bad films. Or at least "so-bad-it's-good" films.In this case action director Robert Rodriguez of Sin City and Desperado fame and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) sought to replicate the whole "grindhouse" cinema effect with a movie called... drum roll please... Grindhouse.Grindhouses were cheap cinemas in the 1970s which showed B-rate exploitation flicks all day long -- usually in the form of double bills.Grindhouse (the movie) consisted of a "double bill" of two movies, namely Death Proof and Planet Terror. The cinema prints of both movies were deliberately "aged" with scratches, faded colors and so forth to replicate the whole watching a battered print at a grindhouse cinema effect. Planet Terror actually has a faux trailer before the movie itself starts (it is quite funny and very reminiscent of those 1970's action flicks) for a fictional movie titled Machete.It even has a deliberately "missing reel," letting the audience fill in the dots between scenes themselves. The DVD, by the way, goes one step further: you can select an audio track that replicates the cinema experience - you can hear an audience jeering and a guy eating pop corn in the seat next to you.Death Proof starred Kurt Russell as a serial killer who drives a 1970s muscle car and targeted young women -- that is, until a group of them fights back.In Planet Terror -- Rodriguez's flick -- cannibalistic zombies overrun a small town when a top secret virus is set loose at the nearby military base. The gore and violence is way over the top with some scenes directly stealing from movies such as The Thing, Evil Dead and Total Recall.The most notable image from the movie is of a sexy Rose McGowan as an amputee with a machine gun as a prosthetic. Sensitive viewers should take care to avoid it. It stars several Rodriguez regulars and Bruce Willis in a small cameo. Watching it is like watching some forgotten straight-to-video effort from the early 1980's -- Highly stylized and reminiscent of B-movies from that era, the color palettes are often a sickly green with a dated synth music score (of the sort Carpenter's films were noted for) on the soundtrack. Its like watching a movie you have never seen before, but feeling as if you had, but can't remember when.Cinema audiences however never got the joke as the whole "grindhouse" experience was as alien to today's young teenaged audiences that frequent today's multiplexes as were the concept of a drive-in.There were many incidents of audience members not realizing that the movie consisted of a double bill and leaving the cinemas before the second feature started. Cinema owners weren't too happy at the film's long running time either and didn't go to any trouble to keep the movie running when the film proved to be a box office disappointment.For the non-US. market (as well as the DVD release) it was thus decided to market and release the two movies separately. Thus with padded running times Death Proof and now Planet Terror are released as separate movies. All that remains of the whole "grindhouse" title is the "Grindhouse presents" moniker.Back when Grindhouse was released as one feature in the cinemas director Tarantino remarked on the film's odd concept that audiences were desperate for something fresh, new and different. It would seems that he was wrong as Grindhouse proved to be a major box office disappointment. Or was he? Perhaps this was a film that proved to be too creative for its target audience, in this day and age of high tech video games, and instant gratification movies that have to 'dumb themselves down' so audiences 'get it'. I think this was a film that the target audience needed to be kids - if not teens back in the late sixties, early seventies to appreciate what had just been viewed.THE DISC: The movie plus audio commentaries are to be found on the first disc. As stated previously, the film print has been deliberately aged to look much older than it is with all kinds of scratches, splotches, color fades and the like.The second disc is filled with behind-the-scenes making of featurettes and interviews with the various actors and creative people involved. Unfortunately no time is spent on explaining the whole "grindhouse" phenomenon and inspiration to any newbies. But it is interesting -- and ironic! -- to see how 2000's high-tech computer technology is used to replicate a low-tech early 1980's B-grade look and feel to the movie.RECOMMENDATION: Worth a look-see, particularly if you miss those genuine early 1980's B-grade straight-to-video efforts from that era's home video boom, and want to take a trip back to a time when movies were what they were - enjoyable, smart, and full of effort.

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Takes me back to the old days when the insanity was so friggin good.

Planet Terror is without doubt the best 'good' movie that I've seen this year. It's certainly no 5-star classic, and it hardly borders on being 'great', but for a deliberately over-the-top, 70's Horror/gore-sploitation spoof, it easily takes the 2007 best-of cup.Have you ever seen that campy flick from the 80s called  Return of the Living Dead Part II ? You know, where some government bio-warfare chemicals are accidentally released and turn anyone that comes into contact with the agent into a brain-craving zombie? Well, Planet Terror Director Robert Rodriguez clearly has seen it, and he ultimately made what could be considered a *much* better than the original remake of ROTLD II with PT.Unlike its Grindhouse partner,  Death Proof , Planet Terror goes mainly with the 'that's just plain silly' instead of the 'this could really happen'. The situations in Planet Terror are over-exaggerated (deliberately); the gore is way over-done (deliberately); and the movie is as much a Comedy (deliberately) as it is a Horror film. Keeping the 'deliberateness' of the movie in mind makes it all work quite well.Planet Terror is full of actors you know, and many are usual suspects in the Tarantino/Rodriguez shop. The actors really help make this movie successful at what it's trying to do by taking their roles seriously in a not-so-serious movie.What exactly is Planet Terror trying to do? Entertain. It does so...thoroughly.

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Regalato a mio nipote appassionato di questo genere di film è gli è piaciuto

Una película que es de lo más exagerada, estúpida pero eso es lo que la hace fascinante.La edición blu ray importada incluye una inmensa cantidad de extras que no tiene la edición nacional. Para empezar son dos discos, se incluye la película en su formato original (como si estuviera dañada) y su versión limpia, por lo que tienes dos versiones de la misma película para que la veas de la manera que más te agrade.A esto se le suma una excelente cantidad de extras que te dejaran fascinado si eres fan de los zombies o del cine gore. No es una película para todos, es extremadamente violenta, tonta, sin sentido pero eso la hace un clásico instantáneo del cine de horror cómico.

La manera en la que esta rodada hace que vuelvas a los 80, esta se estreno tambien en cines como en aquella epoca, es decir dos peliculas por precio de una, aqui en Amazon se podria decir lo mismo ya que el precio de las dos peliculas casi te salia como el precio de una, Amazon de 10 en todo, ademas esta edicion del Reino Unido viene en perfecto castellano.

Si vous ne supportez pas la vue du sang,alors circulez,ce film n'est pas pour vous.Moi même qui suit un fan de films d'horreurs et autres films gore,il y a quand même des fois ou c'est un peu écoeurent .Enfin un peu seulement.Pour les autres,fans de films d'actions,horreurs,gore,fans de Quentin Tarantino,de Robert Rodriguez,de Tom Savini,alors prenez place ce film est pour vous.L'histoire démarre dans une petite ville rurale du Texas.Un groupe de soldats arrive dans une base militaire voisine.Dirigés par le lieutenant Muldoon,ils font une transaction commerciale avec un ingénieur chimiste nommé Abby,pour une grande quantité d'un agent biochimique mortel connue sous le nom de DC2.Lorsque Muldoon apprend que Abby a un approvisionnement suplémmentaire en main,il tente de prendre en otage Abby,et celui-ci libère volontairement le gaz dans l'air.Pendant ce temps William et Dakota Block,un couple de médecins,constatent que leurs patients sont soudains frappés par la gangrène et afféctés par un regard vide et inquiétant.....Tandis que les malades se multiplient et deviennent des zombies assoiffés de sang,un petit groupe se réunie et tente d'empêcher l'épidémie de se propager.Si des millions d'individus sont contaminés et que beaucoup succombes,une poignée d'entre eux se battrons jusqu'au bout pour se réfugier dans un lieux sûr..... Côté casting on est bien servit avec de la bonne camelote,c'est pas du toc,c'est du lourd.Rose Mac Gowan,Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin(le vrai méchant du film),Marley Selthon(Mortelle saint valentin,Scream 4),Jeff Fahey(Psychose 3,Darkman 3...), Michael Biehn(Grease,Terminator,Alien le retour,...),Bruce Willis,Quentin Tarantino,Naween Andrews(Le patient anglais,Rollerball ...),Tom Savini qui a beaucoup travaillé avec George A Romero,et quelques autres... Tout comme Alfred Hitchcock,John Carpenter,Quentin Tarantino, et d'autres grands réalisateurs,Robert Rodriguez nous a concocté un petit chef d'oeuvre à sa façon.Le grain du film et la façon de tourner,m'ont à certains moments fait penser à El mariachi,qui pour moi est un exemple du genre,et un vrais petit bijoux.L'ambiance général et l'atmosphère très particulière, l'humour(à ne pas prendre au premier degré),l'aspect très gore,beaucoup de sang,la violence,l'action et le scénario bien rythmé, régaleront les amateurs du genre.La dernière partie du film dans le desert,est un hommage non dissimulé au film culte Lawrence d'Arabie.Un clein d'oeil au film de John Carpenters Le prince des ténèbres,un autre à Psychose de A Hitchcock.Certains dialogue et l'ambiance du film renvoient à des classiques du genre horreurs-suspens comme,L'invasion des profanateurs de sépultures,en quatrième vitesse,ou encore des films de George A Romero.Pour finir, en bonus,la version commenté du réalisateur Robert Rodriguez en vost,et la conférence de presse "GRINDHOUSE"lors du comic con 2008.Pour la version collector,le disque 2 contient environ une heure de bonus complémentaire.Voilà,à bonne entendeur salut.