Any movie fan should be clamouring for Grind House, the next movie from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino has yet to make a bad movie (Jackie Brown is just the "least good" of an amazing filmography). Rodriguez went a little haywire after 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn, focusing too much on his cutesy Spy Kids franchise, before making his awesome return to adult cinema with 2005's Sin City.
The pair have now teamed up for Grind House, a duet of hardcore movies based on the "grindhouse" aesthetic of the 1970s. Tarantino will direct Death Proof, a slasher film starring Kurt Russell; while Rodriguez directs zombie movie Planet Terror with Michael Biehn.
In an effort to make this "grindhouse" experience as authentic as possible, there will also be trailers for fake movies, some directed by Eli Roth (Hostel) and Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead). These trailers will include a blaxploitation film, a kung fu film, a sexploitation film, a Spaghetti Western and a Swedish porno.
Also of interest is the project's eclectic cast. There are potential career resuscitations for Kurt Russell, Michael Biehn, Josh Brolin and Jeff Fahey; roles for From Dusk Till Dawn alumni Danny Trejo, Michael Parks and Tom Savini; plus some other up-and-coming actors like Freddy Rodriguez, Naveen Andrews (Sayid in Lost), Stacy Ferguson (Black Eyed Peas), Rose McGowa and Rosario Dawson (Sin City).
If none of that has wetted your appetite, then you must be dead. The film opens next year in the US on 6 April, but check out this awesome trailer... and begin counting the days...
