Those crazy, crazy folks at Starz network is airing Grindhouse next Monday, March 31st in it’s complete entirety. So if you missed it in the theaters before the Weinstein’s split it and didn’t get a chance to catch the bastardized DVDs this is a great opportunity to catch it uncut and unedited. My only question is why is Starz running this on a Monday? What are they thinking? This should be a Saturday night premiere. I’m going to have to Tivo it because this is a “school” night.
Starz presents Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s homage to exploitation B-movie thrillers Monday, March 31 at 9:00 p.m. Over three hours, the two feature-length films, turned into a double-bill, complete with fake trailers, missing scenes and bad film stock will be shown in its entirety, the way it was originally screened in movie theaters. In Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, a small-town deals with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called “sickos,” and a gun-legged stripper named Cherry (Rose McGowan) and her martial arts-wielding boyfriend (Freddy Rodriguez) take on the zombie army. Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof has a psycho named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) stalking and killing beautiful women with his ‘70s muscle car.
Grindhouse features fake movie trailers directed by Rodriguez, Rob Zombie (Halloween, The Devil’s Rejects), Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and Eli Roth (Hostel, Hostel: Part II).
Crap, I wish I got that channel.
I have STARZ and all 3 versions are available on STARZ on Demand. I have watched the 2-hour versions of Planet Terror and Death Proof, which premiered earlier this month. I found DP to feel a little too long and meandering between the 2 sets of women. PT moved better and had some really memorable scenes where the audience would shout at the screen in disgust. I look forward to seeing them as they originally aired in the theater. I have the feeling this will provide more of the “experience” of watching 70s era B movies, which is the best aspect of both movies. Compared to watching them as independent movies, in which case they are both interesting but nothing that remarkable.
I agree with neighbor, Planet Terror was a much better movie to watch.