Most of us were either too young, or had parents who were too attentive to get in on the grindhouse cinema craze, if you can even call it a craze. It kicked off in the 60s and by the end of the 80s had died out, killed off by the power of home video. Today's grindhouse candidates end up going straight to DVD, along with Bambi II and American Pie 17: Stiffler Goes To Uranus. But for Quentin Tarantino, the grindhouse was where he spent his childhood, obsessing over bad B-movies and films that he probably had no business watching. When he met Robert Rodriguez in the early 90s, he soon won him over to his love of obscure, exploitation films and now it's culminated in a combined attempt from the two to resurrect it.
So what the fuck is a grindhouse movie? Well there's really no such thing. A grindhouse is a place, a type of theater where you once went to watch all the underground crap that you couldn't see anywhere else. This was in the days before the all powerful rule of the MPAA, the days before you could watch porn from the comfort of a beach towel on the floor in your living room. Grindhouse movies were exploitation movies, and exploitation movies have as many genres as there are ways to sin. The most common type usually involved extreme violence, gore, sex, and violence. You know, the good stuff.
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