Death Proof

For Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia (Sydney Tamia Pottier), dusk offers an oppurtunity to unwind with two of her closest friends, Shanna and Arlene (Jordan Ladd and Vanessa Ferlito).
This three fox posse sets out into the night turning Guero's to the Texas Chili Parlor.
Not all of the attention is innocent: covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), a scarred, weathered rebel who leers from behind the wheel of his muscle car,
As the girls settle into their beers, Mike's weapon, a white-out juggernaut, revs just feet away...

Planet Terror

Robert Rodriguez, co-director of Sin City, brings you Planet Terror, a retro-futuristic vision of horror that's ben weathered, stripped, and aged to perfection.
In Plant Terror, married doctors William and Dakota Block (Josh Brolin and Marey Shelton) find their graveyard shift inundated by townspeople ravaged by gangrenous sores and a suspicious vacant look in their eyes.
Among the wounded is Cherry (Rose McGowan), a go-go dancer whose leg was ripped from her body during a roadside attack.
Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), her significant other, is at her side and watching her back.
Cherry may be dowb, but she hasnt danced her last number.
As the invalids quicky become enraged aggressors, Cherry amd Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night, hurtling towards a destiny that will leave millions infected, countless dead, and a lucky few struggling to find the last safe corner of planet terror.

Planet Terror also stars Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Naveen Andrews, Stacy Ferguson and Michael Parks.
Planet Terror will be shown on a grindhouse double bill with Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

Grindhouse - April 6, 2007

Quentin Taratino & Robert Rodriguez take us back to the era of the "grindhouse".

A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films, or is an often misused term to describe the genre of films that played in such theatres (which are actually "exploitation films"). Grind-houses were known for non-stop, triple-bill programs of B movies, usually consisting of a double feature where two films were shown back to back. Many of these inner-city theatres formerly featured burlesque shows which featured "bump and grind" dancing, leading to the term "grind-house." Beginning in the late 1960s and especially during the 1970s, the subject matter of exploitation films shown in these theaters often included explicit sex, violence, bizarre or perverse plot points, and other taboo content. Many grind-houses were exclusively pornographic.

By the 1980s, home video threatened to render the grind-house obsolete. By the end of the decade, these theaters had vanished from Los Angeles's Broadway and Hollywood Boulevard, New York City's Times Square and San Francisco's Market Street. By the mid-1990s, these particular theaters had completely disappeared from the United States.

I never got the chance to experience this first hand but from what I've researched it seems like this movie is gonna be a wild ride.
I found a DVD on Amazon.com called 42nd Street Forever Vol 1 that has 40+ of these old grindhouse trailers that should be fun to watch and help me understand where Rodriguez & Taratino are getting their inspiration for this amazing movie.

Check out the website at www.grindhousemovie.net

I'll post more about the two films (Taratino's Death Proof & Rodriguez's Planet Terror) later