Exploitationsploitation
Just watched the trailer for Grindhouse, the sleaze-horror double feature that includes Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. I really, really hope it won’t take several months after the US release for this to show up here in Sweden. The stuff looks hilarious. I hope Tarantino and Rodriguez have the skill to re-create the… uh… the magic of the genre, because it’s pretty damned near rock bottom as far as quality goes – and that’s a big part of what makes it so charming.
Update: It seems it will open here a week after the April 6th US release. I really don’t like it when movies lag behind so I have to struggle to ignore the buzz online until I can see it myself. As a fan of Philip K. Dick I’m for example still waiting for A Scanner Darkly to show up. I could order the dvd now since I’m planning to get it anyway, or I could download it now, and see it in the theater later and then get the dvd, but I’m sort of old-fashioned and like to see anticipated movies on the big screen first, while knowing as little as possible about them.
