American Grindhouse

"...solid survey of the history of exploitation filmmaking and grindhouse theatres. His film offers an overview of the subject..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review

FF2012: How Fantastic Fest Got Twisted Up By 'American Mary'

Jen and Sylvia Soska are the new twins of evil

"...the latest film from the Canadian film making duo, American Mary, deals with body modification, their dentine difference is..."

Oct. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Machete Kills

Robert Rodriguez once again unleashes manic, over-the-top mayhem.

"...edged weapons in this unruly, occasionally silly, but ultimately grindhouse-fun sequel to Robert Rodriguez’s 2010 actioner Machete (which itself..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Machete

Robert Rodriguez fulfills his early promise with this Mexploitation action film that also catapults Danny Trejo into full-fledged superhero status.

"...Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino’s halves of the B-movie throwback Grindhouse. It was one of the takeaway images from Grindhouse:..."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: The Heroic and the Holy

Grindhouse squeezes transcendent kicks from a classic form

"...out of Howard Hawks and the Western, the B-movie, American drive-in fare, and, of course, rock & roll (no..."

April 6, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Mummy

"...buried. Along the way they ally themselves with an American group operating along the same lines, and before you..."

May 7, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Reviews

"...American GrindhouseDocumentary Feature, Spotlight Premieres D: Elijah Drenner; narrated by..."

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Buried

Buried takes place entirely inside a coffin where a man is buried alive.

"...The Haunt of Fear – long ago so permeated American pop culture that their influence on cinematic Shock SuspenStories,..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cavite

This rocketing thriller that pits an unseen Filipino terrorist against an unwitting Filipino-American dupe is one of the purest examples of no-budget, seat-of-the-pants, gloriously DIY filmmaking since The Blair Witch Project.

"...on the Left, which stripmined Bergman's for all the grindhouse grue it could eviscerate, Cavite's doomy pas de deux..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trailer Park: SXSW Film Day 7

An homage to the most recognizable actor, plus pop culture fever

"...called Mr Miller). Finally this documentary from Elijah Drenner (American Grindhouse) puts him center stage in a film our..."

March 13, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...insanity. DEADLY GAMES D: René Manzor France, 1990, North American Premiere, 90 min. In Attendance – René Manzor Deadly..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AGFA Saving Something Weird

Kickstarter campaign to save rare movies

"...When Tim and Karrie League co-founded the American Genre Film Archive in 2009, it felt like a..."

Oct. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Hunted'/'The Grapes of Death'

Horror auteur Rollin abandons vampires for mental decline

"...horror director Jean Rollin seemed to have no North American peer: But the two latest releases from his cinematic..."

April 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Randy Blythe

As the Palaces Burn screening: Fri., 11pm, Emo's Grindhouse Tent Interview: Sun., 5:30pm, Emo's

"...getting in a car and going to some nondescript American court building in a suburb," says the singer. "We're..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'That Guy Dick Miller'

Character actor Dick Miller brings the verve

"...by Elijah Drenner, the director of previous SXSW entry American Grindhouse, is at its best when it allows the..."

March 10, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Reviews

Capsule reviews

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature

Carpenter's Apprentice

Robert Rodriguez on "Planet Terror"

"...eyeful of the jagged, raw, meta-retro mind-bomb that is Grindhouse...."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: All This Horror Business

Catching up with the major terror releases

"...gross-out horror. Now it emerges from the vaults of Grindhouse Releasing in a three-disc edition...."

July 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Martial Arthouse

Dan Halsted brings five secret kung fu films to AFS

"...the Chinatowns in the major cities, or for the grindhouse audiences for the inner cities. But most cities, they..."

June 28, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...Grindhouse, as you probably know, is a celebration of a..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Joe Bob Briggs Teaches the History of Redneck Cinema

The original Hellbilly Deluxe

"...When the rackety sprocket gods of the 42nd Street grindhouse Valhalla and their Lone-Star-swilling country cousins – the demoniacs..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

There Will Be Film

"...Be Blood A bona fide, newfangled, old-school, take-no-prisoners, 100% all-American epic that mesmerizes and horrifies until the very ......"

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Warped and Bloodied: Two New Books by Drafthouse Veterans

Giving the forgotten children of horror and exploitation the analysis they deserve

"...forgotten, the overlooked and underappreciated, the movies of the grindhouse, the drive-ins, and increasingly the neighborhood video store. Movies..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Lords of Salem

With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.

"...revelation, a black-as-pitch perfect homage to an unclassifiable 1970s drive-in/grindhouse subgenre that, for all intents and purposes, no longer..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Casa de mi Padre

Will Ferrell commits 100% to this goofy, all-Spanish-language soap opera-cum-horse opera.

"...Scratches are added to the film stock à la Grindhouse, adding to its old-timey feel. Comedy emerges from the..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tobe Hooper, R.I.P.

Remembering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director

"...commercial feature that set the world on its ear. American cinema lived on the coasts, in New York and..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...cannibal cruiser I Drink Your Blood to his Phil's Grindhouse Selections strand, while the festival has snagged and tagged..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

They're Here! Fantastic Fest Wave One Arrives

Overlord, Apostle headline fest opening salvo

"...with not one but three titles out of the American Genre Film Archive, plus two titles from the era..."

July 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...Venezuelans, they all know what it is. But an American audience just sees a shooting and that introduces you..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

10 in Focus

Alma

"...seen shorts, some of which are probably making their American screen debuts. The descriptions below are all Egoyan's off-the-cuff..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

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