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Originally Posted by Ferox13
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...
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Its a horrible hipster term that really gets on my nerves just like Torture Porn or Splatterpunk.
Kinda sad that a great era of film history needed to be legitmized by a mainstream studios homage to gain recognition.
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
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.
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I think Fulci's
Zombie made it to the Grindhouse circuit but yeh those flicks were more prominant in the home video realm. Did much of the Italian stuff make it over to the UK? I guess the Video Nasties scare buried a lot of those titles.
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Originally Posted by Staal
Could you guys recommend me any titles?
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Fight For Your Life and
Switchblade Sisters are two films I'm pretty fond of.