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A 2007 double feature film by [[Robert Rodriguez]] and [[Quentin Tarantino]], intentionally sending up the 1970s [[B
''<s> Thunder Bolt</s> Death Proof'' - A stuntman plays on his small fame to hit on girls, then kills them with his car. Little did he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are stuntwomen... and among them is [[Zoe Bell]] (playing herself), who also doubled for [[Uma Thurman]] in ''[[
▲A 2007 double feature film by [[Robert Rodriguez]] and [[Quentin Tarantino]], intentionally sending up the 1970s [[B Movie|B-Movies]] that played in theaters, complete with the cute little coming attraction and in-betweener cartoons.
▲''<s> Thunder Bolt</s> Death Proof'' - A stuntman plays on his small fame to hit on girls, then kills them with his car. Little did he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are stuntwomen... and among them is [[Zoe Bell]] (playing herself), who also doubled for [[Uma Thurman]] in ''[[Kill Bill (Film)|Kill Bill]]'' in real life. Boy, is Stuntman Mike in for a world of hurt...
''Planet Terror'' - A military transaction turns chaotic as a poison gas is released onto a rural town of Texas. There, the unknowing civilians turn into blood-thirsty zombies. The only people who can stop them is a Go-Go-Dancer with a gun for a leg, her expert gunman ex boyfriend, the crazy babysitter twins, a [[Heroic BSOD|shellshocked]] doctor, a [[Jerkass]] cop, a crusty sheriff, a scientist obsessed with balls, and a whole bunch of other trailer-park freaks deep in the Heart of Texas.
Also contained a variety of [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|fake movie trailers]]. All of these trailers either have been, are in the process of, or being considered [[Defictionalization|getting made into an actual feature film]].▼
▲Also contained a variety of [[Real Trailer Fake Movie|fake movie trailers]]. All of these trailers either have been, are in the process of, or being considered [[Defictionalization|getting made into an actual feature film]].
* ''[[Machete]]'' -- "Mexploitation film" in which a day laborer, played by Danny Trejo, becomes a hitman; also directed by Rodriguez. Has [[Defictionalization|been turned into an actual movie]].
* ''Werewolf Women of the SS'' -- [[Exactly What It Says
* ''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
* ''Thanksgiving'' -- A [[Gorn|gore-soaked]] [[Slasher
And in some select theaters:
* ''[[Hobo
If you're looking for information on "grindhouse movies" (which this movie is [[Homage]] to) see [[Exploitation Film]].
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
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* [[Author Appeal]] - Tarantino once more indulges his foot fetish.
** [[Rose McGowan]]'s dance scene at the beginning of ''[[Planet Terror]]'' would just be [[Fan Service]], except that she and Rodriguez became a couple shortly after this movie came out.
* [[Badass]]: Several, actually. But ''especially'' El Wray. But '''[[Took a Level
* [[The Baroness]]: ''Werewolf Women of the SS''
* [[Bertha in The Attic]]: Possibly part of the plot to ''Don't''
* [[The Cameo]]: Several, most famously the one from ''Werewolf Women of the SS'':
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* [[Camp]]
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "It's blood."
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** Cherry's numerous "useless skills" - she finds a use for almost all of them by the end of the film
* [[Creator Cameo]] - Quentin Tarantino appears in both movies (He technically didn't direct Planet Terror, but Robert Rodriguez has stated he was a large part of the creative process). Rodriguez also appears as one of the terrorists selling the biochemicals (the guys who gang up on the other guy and cut his balls off) at the beginning, IIRC.
* [[Death
* [[Defictionalization]] - Rodriguez's ''Machete'' was released in late 2010, and ''Hobo with a Shotgun'' is due to be released in 2011. Rob Zombie is also giving strong consideration to do a full length version of ''Werewolf Women of the SS''.
** ''Grindhouse 2'' would supposedly be ''Don't'' and ''Thanksgiving'', with new fake trailers as well.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: The owner of the go go dancing club.
** {{spoiler|Stuntman Mike proves himself to little more than a bully, and as such a coward.}}
* [[Doomed
* [[Everythings Cuter With Kittens]]: To remind viewers that these films are X-rated.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]] / [[Evil Laugh]]: {{spoiler|[[Nicolas Cage]] as... [[Fu Manchu]]!}}
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* [[Exploitation Film]]: Errr, yah; the whole point.
** [[Nazisploitation]]: ''Werewolf Women of the SS''.
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* [[Gorn]]
* [[Hammer Horror]]: Possibly ''Don't'', although it appears to be more violent than Hammer usually went.
* [[Hey,
** Not to MENTION the fact that, while [[Lost|Frank Lapidis]] may fly a plane really well, it's nothing, and I mean nothing...to his barbecue.
** Sheriff Hague is played by Michael Biehn, who played Kyle Reese in ''[[The Terminator]]'' and Corporal Hicks in ''[[Aliens]]''
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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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* [[Ms. Fanservice]] - Pretty much every female character.
* [[No Export for You]] - The theatrical cut of ''Grindhouse'' wasn't released on home video in the US until more than 3 years later, and it wasn't released overseas ''as'' ''Grindhouse'' at all - both movies were released individually.
* [[One
** And {{spoiler|[[Nicolas Cage]]}} as--[[Overused Running Gag|oh, forget it]].
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]] - The films go to great lengths to give that authentic 1970s grindhouse feel, such as fake trailers, grainy footage, missing reels, jumping scenes, burned film, terrible synthesized music, an ad for a Tex-Mex restaurant which is supposedly next door to the theater you are watching the movie in, etc.
** In one scene of ''Planet Terror'', a large crane is clearly visible. Rodriguez considered removing it by computer, but then decided that leaving it visible would be much more grindhouse.
* [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie]]: Several of them!
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: Used during Thanksgiving to introduce the pilgrim killer during the parade.
* [[Recurring Character]]: Dakota Block appears in both films, as does her father, Sheriff Earl McGraw, who has appeared in various other films by Tarantino and Rodriguez.
* [[
** "On Cable" meaning "Only on movie channels"; on MTV, where the "Missing Reels" were, they simply cut to a commercial.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Ehrm, come on, you expected this to be a less gory and less perverted filled with sexual references {{spoiler|including mutating penis}}? It's an exploitation movie, you know. Most of these were '''that''' cheesy back in 70s-80s, you know.
* [[Retraux]]
* [[Rule
* [[Running Gag]]: Several, most notably the missing reels.
* [[Shout
** ''Death Proof'' makes a lot of references that have already been made in other Tarantino films. Kim's car has the same pattern as the Bride's jumpsuit in ''[[Kill Bill]] 1'', but before that, it was Bruce Lee's jumpsuit. Abernathy's ringtone is the "Twisted Nerve" whistle used in ''[[Kill Bill]]'', but Bernard Hermann original wrote it for something else. The only honest-to-God self-reference is when Mike mentions Big Kahuna burgers, a running gag in Tarantino's films.
*** Also, there are Red Apple cigarettes in ''Planet Terror''.
** 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
** 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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* [[Chekhov's Hobby]]: Zoe's ability to always land on her feet. The girls talk about it in a joking way, but it saves her life later on.
* [[Continuity Nod]] - The sheriff and his deputy who come to the hospital showed up at the wedding chapel massacre in ''[[Kill Bill]].'' (Both the hospital and the chapel were in Texas.)
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Abby. {{spoiler|She disapproves of Kim's gun and complains when they are going to do a stunt. After Stuntman Mike pissed her off enough, she suggested killing him. Later it is actually her who kicks his head in}}.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - The end; [[Kurt Russell]] gets knocked around by [[Zoe Bell]], [[Rosario Dawson]], and [[Tracie Thoms]], until Zoe roundhouses him on his ass, and Rosario ax-kicks his head in.
* [[Death
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: More like {{spoiler|an entire decoy cast!}}
* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: The entire first half makes you ask when something, ''anything'' is actually going to happen.
* [[Five Second Foreshadowing]] - When Pam realizes that Stuntman Mike isn't actually going to give her a ride home, there's a super close up of her eyes. One second before Stuntman Mike hits the gas and speeds off... With Pam locked in the passenger side.
* [[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!
** Reading an interview with Tarantino reveals that this is actually exactly what's supposed to be going on.
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* [[Hot Amazon]] - [[Zoe Bell]], for starters.
* [[Jabba Table Manners]] - Watching Stuntman Mike [[Establishing Character Moment|noisily and messily slurping down his plate of nachos in his ''introduction'']] is enough to tell you that this guy is going to be a creep.
** Oh, c'mon, it's nachos. How do ''you'' eat them?
* [[Loud Gulp]] - Lee actually says "Gulp" when she realizes her friends have left her with mister Redneck Rapist.
* [[Market
* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Shaped Like Itself]]: - "Why's he called ''Stuntman Mike''?" "'Cause he's a stuntman."
* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: Mike whines and cries and blubbers like a baby after being shot in the arm. Possibly [[Truth in Television]] as bullet wounds that merely graze the skin hurt more due to the higher concentration of nerve endings there.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Tarantino said that he wrote Kim essentially as a [[Distaff Counterpart|female version]] of [[Samuel L. Jackson]].
* [[Soft
* [[Stock Scream]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio The Wilhelm Scream] is heard in Death Proof after Stuntman Mike runs over the first car.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Driving in the middle of the night, drunk, high out of their minds, blasting loud music, and sticking their legs out of the windows, they were practically begging for an accident.
* [[This Is a Sentence Bitch]]: Virtually all of Kim's dialogue.
* [[Trunk Shot]]: A Tarantino trademark, played with: it's a shot of Kim and Zoe from under the hood.
* [[What Happened to
=== Planet Terror ===
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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|DC-2 spreads around the world and no one has any way of finding a cure but Cherry is leading survivors to humanity's last foothold on the Mexican coast}}.
* [[Body Horror]]: By the buckets.
* [[Bond One
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Poor, poor Abby.
** Muldoon says he delivered one to [[Osama Bin Laden]], along with a shot to the chest. Back in 2007, it was kinda funny; in 2011, it's ''really'' funny because that's how bin Laden really died.
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: Tammi is Dakota's lesbian lover on the sly, and ends up getting eaten by zombies.
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** "Two against the world, baby."
** "[[Brain Food|I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge."]]
* [[Cluster F
* [[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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* [[Eye Scream]]
* [[Finger Damage]] - Poor, poor Dakota Block.
* [[For Science!]]: Abby.
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* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]] - Dr. William Block. And keep in mind, {{spoiler|that was ''before'' he was turned into a zombie.}} You gotta admit, those specs look good though.
* [[Gatling Good]]
* [[Girl
* [[Groin Attack]]: Abby seems fond of them. The rapists testicles actually melt off.
* [[Homage]]: The action may be all Robert Rodriguez but the horror suspense elements, down to the synthesizer music, is pure [[John Carpenter]].
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*** In a different way, "I never miss". First, it's the speaker bragging about his skill with firearms, later it's {{spoiler|[[Someone to Remember Him By|letting his love interest know that she's pregnant by him.]]}}
*** Or tragic.
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* [[Kick the Morality Pet]]: Okay, Dakota doesn't ''literally'' {{spoiler|kill her son, but she ''does'' give him a loaded gun}}.
* [[Leg Cannon]]: Cherry Darling had her leg eaten by zombies, and replaced it with an M-4 assault rifle, which she used to kick much ass. And then later, she had that replaced with a full-on ''[[Gatling Good|minigun]]''.
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** There's a Meta-Gag in there as well. An presumed urban legend (re-told in the novel ''[[Fight Club]]'') is that older movies would have their nude scenes cut shorter and shorter as projectionists removed a few choice frames for their collection.
* [[Made of Plasticine]] - ''Everyone'', human and zombie alike.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Subverted with Dakota after she {{spoiler|gives her son a loaded gun to defend himself with, only to have him shoot himself in the head. She then starts [[Cradling Your Kill|cradling the kill]]}} and pulls a [[Gargoyles|Demona]] when her husband shows up and shrieks blame at ''him'' for it.
* [[No Name Given]]: We don't really know what Cherry's real name is. "Palomita" was just something Wray gave.
* [[Noodle Incident]] - The "missing reel". Cut to the diner on fire. Sheriff Hague had been shot. Dakota and her father, the babysitters, the go-go dancing club owner and some of the dancers somehow made it there.
* [[Pint
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* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: Dr. Dakota Block gives a gun to her child, when she leaves him alone in a car. {{spoiler|He shoots himself in the face ([[I Just Shot Marvin in
* [[Rocket Jump]]: Cherry does this with her grenade launcher leg. One of the only non-videogame characters to perform this move.
* [[Rule of Cool]]
* [[The Savage South]]: Zombies everywhere in good old Texas!
* [[Serious Business]]: Barbecue
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* [[Sexophone]]: ''Planet Terror'''s opening theme, played over Cherry's go-go dance routine. Later spoofed by the saxophonist playing it in the prison cell.
* [[Staking the Loved One]]: Earl does this to his wife.
* [[Theme Music Power
* [[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
* [[Well
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Woman in White]]: Cherry in the ending.
* [[Word of Dante]]: The vehicles driven by the undead U.S soldiers are emblazoned with "UNIT 31" so maybe that's the name of their regiment. It hasn't been stated otherwise.
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▲ {{spoiler|And with Nicolas Cage as..... Fu Manchu!!}}
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