Tag: Grindhouse
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Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’: Everything We Know About the Holiday Slasher
Since 2007, when he created a mock trailer for the movie Grindhouse, Eli Roth has been waiting for the right opportunity to create a feature-length movie based on the fake trailer. The original trailer is filled to the brim with terrible puns, extremely cheesy kill scenes and body reveals in true Eli Roth fashion. Roth…
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Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer, And More Info
Every major holiday could stand to have a slasher movie themed around it, especially one with a sunny disposition masquerading the grim truth behind it like Thanksgiving. Such was Eli Roth’s thinking when he made his fake “Thanksgiving” movie trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s “Grindhouse” experiment back in 2007. Roth’s original short is…
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Eli Roth Reveals Why It Took 15 Years to Bring Thanksgiving to Big Screen
Fifteen years after the fake trailer first appeared in Grindhouse horror aficionado Eli Roth is finally turning Thanksgiving into a feature-length movie. During a recent interview with Collider’s Christina Radish for his upcoming animated YA horror series Fright Krewe, Roth was also able to share some delicious morsels about his upcoming feast of a film.…
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Rob Zombie’s Halloween Frustrations Led Him To The Lords Of Salem
With the new film adaptation of “The Munsters” right around the corner, there’s been a lot of talk about director Rob Zombie these days. The heavy metal musician-turned-filmmaker now has nine feature films under his belt, as well as his segment for the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez “Grindhouse” double feature, and the concert film “The Zombie…
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Tales From The Box Office: Grindhouse Was A Love Letter That Didn’t Get Enough Love
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)There are movies that seem ahead of their time, and there are movies that feel a little behind the times. Then there are movies that become an odd…
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Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho Got Its Title After A Conversation With Quentin Tarantino
Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino are pals, and they even worked together briefly on one film “Grindhouse” back when it was a double feature and not sold separately as Tarantino’s “Death Proof” and Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror.” Wright directed “Don’t,” one of the funny fake trailers between the two movies. Tarantino also lent DVD commentary to…
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Rose McGowan: ‘I needed distance from stupid people’
The actor on her new podcast, surviving Harvey Weinstein and why she left the ‘toxic’ USRose McGowan was born into a cult – the Children of God – and has spent most of her working life in what she considers another secretive, manipulative sect: Hollywood. As an actor, she appeared in Scream, Grindhouse and the…
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‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Animated Series in the Works, Says Robert Rodriguez
For people who were amped about the indie film boom of the 1990s, From Dusk Till Dawn represented an exciting new development in the careers of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Years before the failed 2007 experiment that was Grindhouse, the two indie wunderkinds teamed up to make a unique B-movie that shifted from a…
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‘Becky’ Is A Hard-r ‘Home Alone’ & Twisted Coming Of Age Grindhouse Flick [Review]
The coming-of-age genre often examines, first love, mischief, growth, or pivotal personal discovery moments that radically change a person’s life. In “Becky,” filmmakers Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion’s new movie, the transformative coming-of-age idea is flipped into something that will be forever remembered as horrible, violent and grim. A surprisingly well-acted, intense, and somewhat grindhouse-y…
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How Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill: Volume 2’ Broke the Rules and Won the 2004 Box Office
The mid-April weekend following spring vacation has never been a major release date. But looking back at this weekend at the 2004 box office reveals that non-game changers can be just as revealing as more obvious winners.Sixteen years ago, two independent distributors, Miramax and Lions Gate (they changed their name later), took advantage of the…