Shark v Zombie ... Who Would Win?

Time for some home movies with Robert Rodriguez.

Last night, local hero Robert Rodriguez explained that, before he and Quentin Tarantino started making their upcoming Grindhouse, they made the cast sit through two movies - Italian giallo classic Torso and Lucio Fulci's ultra-squishy walking-dead pioneer Zombie. So before their faux-double-feature's release in April (and Rodriguez' panel discussion Grindhouse 101 this morning), what better way to bring grindhouse to the masses than a public screening of the two movies that meant so much to them?

So here's a few hundred people gathered in Republic Square last night, watching a zombie fight a shark. Now that, my friend, is entertainment

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