Planet Terror (2007)
Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Bruce Willis,
Synopsis:
While conducting experiments on an antidote to a chemical weapon that has turned them all into latent zombies, renegade soldiers release the infection into the local community.
Review:
Like its counterpart, the Tarantino Grindhouse picture Death Proof, this homage to Seventies splatter fests balks not a jot at featuring such items as mobile phones alongside all its weapons fetishism and rednecks and cops straight out of Russ Meyer movies. This is altogether brisker than the Tarantino, and indeed most other movies. It does for zombies roughly what From Dusk Till Dawn did for vampires, with a lot less chat and some of the green screen stuff seen in Sin City; it also has the manufactured jumps and scratches of Death Proof, and one moment where McGowan's poised naked torso scorches right out of the frame and combusts the film in the gate. Few opportunities for lapses in taste and/or misogyny are missed, indeed they are seized upon with a self-conscious glee born of the knowledge that this is, after all, an anachronism, a send-up. Since it also therefore jettisons character along with moderation inevitably means that any praise is qualified, but it does provide unbridled fun for male viewers with strong stomachs.
Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Bruce Willis,
Synopsis:
While conducting experiments on an antidote to a chemical weapon that has turned them all into latent zombies, renegade soldiers release the infection into the local community.
Review:
Like its counterpart, the Tarantino Grindhouse picture Death Proof, this homage to Seventies splatter fests balks not a jot at featuring such items as mobile phones alongside all its weapons fetishism and rednecks and cops straight out of Russ Meyer movies. This is altogether brisker than the Tarantino, and indeed most other movies. It does for zombies roughly what From Dusk Till Dawn did for vampires, with a lot less chat and some of the green screen stuff seen in Sin City; it also has the manufactured jumps and scratches of Death Proof, and one moment where McGowan's poised naked torso scorches right out of the frame and combusts the film in the gate. Few opportunities for lapses in taste and/or misogyny are missed, indeed they are seized upon with a self-conscious glee born of the knowledge that this is, after all, an anachronism, a send-up. Since it also therefore jettisons character along with moderation inevitably means that any praise is qualified, but it does provide unbridled fun for male viewers with strong stomachs.
Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Bruce Willis,
Synopsis:
While conducting experiments on an antidote to a chemical weapon that has turned them all into latent zombies, renegade soldiers release the infection into the local community.
Review:
Like its counterpart, the Tarantino Grindhouse picture Death Proof, this homage to Seventies splatter fests balks not a jot at featuring such items as mobile phones alongside all its weapons fetishism and rednecks and cops straight out of Russ Meyer movies. This is altogether brisker than the Tarantino, and indeed most other movies. It does for zombies roughly what From Dusk Till Dawn did for vampires, with a lot less chat and some of the green screen stuff seen in Sin City; it also has the manufactured jumps and scratches of Death Proof, and one moment where McGowan's poised naked torso scorches right out of the frame and combusts the film in the gate. Few opportunities for lapses in taste and/or misogyny are missed, indeed they are seized upon with a self-conscious glee born of the knowledge that this is, after all, an anachronism, a send-up. Since it also therefore jettisons character along with moderation inevitably means that any praise is qualified, but it does provide unbridled fun for male viewers with strong stomachs.