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* ''Werewolf Women of the SS'' -- [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Directed by Rob Zombie. {{spoiler|With [[Nicolas Cage]] [[One-Scene Wonder|as]]... [[Fu Manchu]]!}}
* ''Don't'' -- [[Video Nasties]]-style Britsploitation [[Screamer Trailer]] directed by [[Edgar Wright]], with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Matthew McFadyen, [[The League of Gentlemen|Mark Gatiss]], Jason Isaacs and narration by [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Will Arnett]]. The main joke of the trailer is that it's the American trailer for a British horror film, and the distributors, in order to prevent the audience from finding out that it's British, have cut the trailer so that none of the characters are heard speaking and we get no idea of the plot. The name of the trailer was reportedly inspired by Video Nasty ''[[Don't Go in the House]]'', or any number of other films from the late seventies/early eighties "Don't" fad.
* ''Thanksgiving'' -- A [[Gorn|gore-soaked]] [[Slasher Movies|slasher movieMovie]] featuring a killer pilgrim, brought to you by [[Eli Roth]]. Ends with a shot of the killer [[Crosses the Line Twice|raping a Thanksgiving turkey]].
And in some select theaters:
* ''[[Hobo with a Shotgun]]'' -- [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Hobo takes the law into his own hands. Made by a couple of independent filmmakers from [[Canada|Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]]. This one was also [[Defictionalization|turned into]] [[Hobo with a Shotgun|a full-length movie]]. Many other indie trailers were made and considered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and although this was the one featured in the film, a lot of the others (visible on [[YouTube]]) are pretty good, too.
 
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If you're looking for information on "grindhouse movies" (which this movie is [[Homage]] to) see [[Exploitation Film]].
 
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** [[Bubble Boy|After find out her crush didn't need the hyperbolic chamber after all]], [[Marley Shelton|Chloe]] decided to become a doctor.
** After her time with [[The Specials]], [[Jordan Ladd|Nightbird]] moved to Austin and became a full time partier.
* [[Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene]]: Inspired by an Italian crime movie with a missing reel which he felt made the film more interesting, Tarantino invoked this trope in both "features" by giving each a "missing reel" (although ''Death Proof'' had it restored in the "complete cut"). In ''Planet Terror'', though, the film cuts from El Wray and Cherry starting to have sex, says "MISSING REEL", and when it cuts back, ''everything is on fire'' and we'll never know why. We'll also never know just ''who'' El Wray really is and why the police chief suddenly has the utmost respect for him.
* [[The Ketchup Test]] - In the ''Thanksgiving'' trailer.
* [[Large Ham]] - [[Nicolas Cage|Guess]] [[Fu Manchu|who?]] "THIS... is my '''MECCA!!!''' ''[[Evil Laugh|Muahhahahaha!!]]''
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** There's a shout out in "Planet Terror" to "Death Proof": a DJ on the radio dedicates a song to {{spoiler|Jungle Julia, in honor of her death}}
** If you watch closely, Dakota in ''Planet Terror'' has a small notepad listing stuff to do. The last thing in that list? ''[[Kill Bill]]''. Her husband is Dr. ''William'' Block...
* [[Slasher MoviesMovie]]: Parodied in ''Thanksgiving''.
** And, possibly, will be played half-straight when it will be a separate movie.
** [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]
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* [[Food Porn]] - Come on, admit it. If you didn't get a craving for nachos after watching the nacho scene in ''Death Proof'', you're '''lying'''.
* [[Foot Focus]] - Plenty of it, as usual in Tarantino films. It's even [[Lampshaded]].
* [[Go-Go Dancing]]: Cherry Darling is quite insistent that she's a go-go dancer, ''not'' a stripper. We get to see her performing, as well.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Stuntman Mike has a large scar running down his face. He's something of a bastard. He also sarcastically claims he [[Cut Himself Shaving]].
* [[Halfway Plot Switch]]: Halfway through, the movie is filmed with a very different style, {{spoiler|with very different characters}}, in a very different place. It was almost like watching a sequel in the middle of the first movie!
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Cherry unleashes a choice one at El Wray
* [[Combat Stilettos]] - Cherry, on her good leg.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: The jerk who tries to rape Cherry? Yep, that is Tarantino himself, obviously a [[Self-Deprecation]] role.
* [[The Danza]]: Skip the club owner is played by Skip, Robert Rodriguez' realtor.
* [[Deliberately Cute Child]] - Played by Robert Rodriguez' son, Rebel. Sadly, {{spoiler|[[Infant Immortality]] is averted.}}
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* [[Staking the Loved One]]: Earl does this to his wife.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Subverted: {{spoiler|The groups' only way of escape is via a helicopter on the other side of a military base filled with zombified soldiers. Abby (Naveen Andrews, aka Sayid from ''[[Lost]]'') sternly says "Follow me!"; the music starts pumping, you think you're in for the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]... and as soon as he peers around the corner, [[Reality Ensues|his head gets blown to pieces.]]}}
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: {{spoiler|The Rapist (played by Tarantino) tries to have his way with Cherry. He is smashed over the head with a table leg, impaled in the eye by the leg's broken end, has his privates melt off from the infection taking over him, has a syringe launched into his other eye, melts into an inhuman monster, pukes up his guts, then finally is ''shot in the crotch with a grenade launcher''.}} Good grief.
** You know what they say... {{spoiler|[[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]}}
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Cherry in a big way.
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{{spoiler|And with Nicolas Cage as..... Fu Manchu!!}}
 
{{spoiler|And with Nicolas Cage as..... Fu Manchu!!}}
 
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