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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ
Grindhouse is not a subgenre. Grindhouse is a term used to describe the theatres where exploitation flicks screened.
HG Lewis' work is brilliant IMO you're missing out on some classic cinema.
Not really shocking but definitley fun splatter that had a huge impact on the genre.
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Yup....
I think people now use the term 'Grindhouse' as they were never aware of types 70's exploitation films that played the Grindhouses and Drive ins...Grindhouses were (usually) the inner city flea pits - 42nd Street was a hotbed of em before the clean up of NYC. Drive-Ins are sorta their rural cousins. In their hayday, they both tended to show the same sort of films - cheap action/exploitaton/kung fu/WIP/horror etc often in double or triple bills.
Weirdly enough Planet Terror is more a homage/parody to the later Zombie genre which really wasn't a staple of Grindhouse/Drive in 's bills.