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Old 04-28-2014, 04:15 AM
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Grind house

Any grind house fans in the building?? I'm talking 'the car', the big bird cage, q the winged serpent,switchblade sisters, etc???

Don't know why, but grind house takes in every single genre (horror, biker, Kung-fu, love story, porn etc) but always seems to be linked and lumped in with horrors
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Old 04-28-2014, 09:59 AM
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I tend to use the term 'Exploitation' film but I do really love the films that were popular in the Grindhouses and Drive-Ins.
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Old 04-28-2014, 02:39 PM
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I use sxploitation to, I only call it grind house because that's what everybody seems to call it since the Tarantino films. Favourite movies???
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Old 05-11-2014, 01:13 PM
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Any grind house fans in the building?? I'm talking 'the car', the big bird cage, q the winged serpent,switchblade sisters, etc???

Don't know why, but grind house takes in every single genre (horror, biker, Kung-fu, love story, porn etc) but always seems to be linked and lumped in with horrors
I'm a big exploitation film fan, from Coffy to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

In my blu-ray collection I do kind of lump them in with the horrors but mainly because I like to keep all my Arrow Video, Shout/Scream Factory and Blue Underground films together
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It’s the best! It encompasses so many genres how can you go wrong? I do exploitation Live watch parties If anyone is interested. More info on Instagram @allweneedissleaze
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Old 06-15-2020, 11:58 AM
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grindhouse really describes the theatres that they used to show in the low budget films in new york on 42nd street back in the day. so it's not about the genre - it's about the budget. most sex/kung fu/horror/women in prison/blacksploitation films were really low budget that couldn't find a home anywhere else - until home video showed up.
you couldn't show these in a mainstream theatre chain .. they wouldn't make a dime. but in the grindhouse cinemas - they played them all day long
eventually the aesthetic of old low budget films with beat to shit prints became known as grindhouse

some are fun and iconic ... some are god awful and unwatchable.

tarantino really captures the typical grindhouse film in Death Proof .. which is mostly endless dialogue between unseasoned no-name actors .. and just a couple of action scenes .. because that's all their budget could get them.

kind of amazing that any of those films got made at all - let alone screened anywhere
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