Robert Rodriguez is one of my favorite indie icons, so I was naturally excited to check out his “treatment” of the grindhouse theme. Death Proof has a few excellent scenes but overall was a bit disappointing.
A bit of background: I’ve enjoyed some zombie movies in the past (Night of the Living Dead, Army of Darkness, etc) but I’m not an avid fan of zombies. Survival horror is not exactly my cup of tea.
Back to the movie, the plot premise is simple: “After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it’s up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.”
Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan) works as a gogo dancer at a club and she’ll be the one to kill the most zombies. Her accomplice (ex-lover, fiance, etc) is El Wray (Freddy Rodríguez), whose mysterious past (lost as part of a faux missing reel) has taught him to use everything from knives to guns with deadly efficiency.
You shouldn’t think it’s just two against the world… I mean the zombies. The zombie tradition always presents us with a “ragtag” group of survivors. All of them are well-developed, even ones that get only a few minutes of screen time.
Similar to El Mariachi (and Desperado), Rodriguez introduces an interesting weapon. When zombies run away with Chery’s leg, she’s fitted with wooden leg, which is soon upgraded to a M16. She mows zombies with bullets and destroys them en masse with granades. Reading it might not be fun but seeing it… is another matter. Even my girlfriend was laughing!
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Hey everyone! Not to change the subject here but I was at free screening Cleveland State University of the dark thriller called UNSPEAKABLE the new film from director Marquette Williams and his company Cinema 2:16 starring Elimu Nelson and it was sooooo good, and sooo darn scary! I know there will be some more free screening as well as an online screening of Unspeakable. I know a lot of you are not hip to his work but this guy is really trying to say something and push the cinema envelope so to speak. Here are some links that I found on youtube. He’s the next Spike Lee but no one is talking about him and I just don’t know why.
UNSPEAKABLE on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCBziXs3S4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sbPkL6yH6c
I LOVE RODRIGUEZ!!!!!!!
He is definitely an inspiration to all us low-budget filmmakers! Plus…he totally makes kick ass movies!
Planet Terror is great…the gore is pretty over the top, and it is pretty silly at times, but that is what he was going for…and that is what makes it great!!!
No Budget FilmMaking is all about working with what you have and working fast. Rodriguez does those things brilliantly, and makes millions!
hi robert im crystAL MADRID AND I AM 12 YEARS OLD AND IM SO INTRISTED IN THE “MOVIE PLANET TERROR” also i am intrested in cherry darling rose,marley shelton dakota and the twin sisters mexicn girls witch electra and the other sister im a mexican robert and im gonna get bautized because my marina got in a fight with my mom so they dont talk to each other anymore and i as going to pick a madrina out of these girls i woulld like to have noe of these girls as my madrina also im doing my first community so i would like to pick another girl out of these