Grindhouse Presents, Planet Terror - Extended and Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition)

For those unhappy that the trailers were not included on Death Proof, let it be known that with Planet Terror, the Machete trailer is there just before the real movie begins! Grade A move there! Thank you Mr. Rodriguez! It's too bad the rest aren't there either. However, this movie is excellent. I loved Death Proof, but Planet Terror just rocks! Rose McGowan is hot and the movie is out right over-the-top gory and hilarious. Unlike Death Proof (whose picture mysteriously cleans up), Planet Terror stays true to it's Grind House roots with the shoddy picture, missing frames, including the meltdown during one of the steamiest scenes in the movie. What I really like is something Rodriguez did with the DVD release of Sin City: including an audience reaction track during a showing of the film. It makes you feel so much a part of the experience when the movie was shown to the public. Disc 2 contains the normal stuff you expect from Rodriguez, including the 10-minute film school, a feature on the babes of Planet Terror and more. Overall, much better than the Death Proof release and including the Machete trailer really helps. Own both movies to complete the collection though. And hopefully, with enough people crying for it, maybe we can also get the original theatrical release as well. Would that be useless talent #151? Oh, and during one of the features, Rodriguez speaks about an upcoming 2-disc edition of Grindhouse which will include his 10-minute cooking school, so maybe that is the theatrical release? We can only hope!

This film far exceeded my expectations, and instantly became my favorite zombie film of all time! (Just for the record, the Resident Evil films are lame in the zombie department, but I'm a big fan of Milla Jovovich. I recommend Peter Jackson's gore fest, "Dead Alive," and also "Lifeforce," an offbeat space/zombie/vampire flick.) Anyway, "Planet Terror" is phenomenally good, and will be one of those films that I will watch again often (read: one of my elected classics). I'm embarrassed to say that I'd never heard of Rose McGowan, but she was terrific, and I've just ordered "Devil in the Flesh" based solely on her performance in this film. I also bought and watched the Grindhouse companion piece, "Death Proof," which I enjoyed. However it doesn't have "repeat viewing" written all over it. By the way, I loved "300" and "Sin City." I disagree with one reviewer that didn't like "Sin City" because its plotlines didn't make sense. I suggest that individual watch it again a few times. It makes perfect sense, and is a top-notch film on all counts (Jessica Alba notwithstanding). "Planet Terror" is riveting entertainment. Fun, scary, and exciting. A zombie masterpiece!

Many people are complaining that the two Grindhouse features are being released seperately. I'm probably one of the few who actually saw the two seperately in theaters because that's the way they released it in France, so I didn't have the possibility of viewing them back-to-back with the trailers, etc... like in the US. That being said, I'm glad that they're releasing it like this. Each movie stands well on its own, and even seperately I'd have to agree and use the term "masterpiece". The uncut version of "Death Proof" that was released in theaters over here is completely genius. There is a lot of talking, but once you get what Tarantino is trying to do, it makes it that much better. Add to that Vanessa Ferlito's lap dance (that was cut in the US version), and really you can't ask for much better. In the version I saw there also wasn't a "missing reel" because it wasn't cut out. The performances by the girls are amazing, and it's thanks to those that the movie reaches its full potential. While "Death Proof" was my personal favorite of the two, I also had a blast watching "Planet Terror", which is a zombie flick, a really gross one at that, thanks in large part to their appearance, and it's up to Cherry (McGowan), El Rey (Rodriguez) and the rest to save the uninfected. Anyone who says that these aren't masterpieces just didn't get the point. It's supposed to look like a bad horror flick, that's the genius of it. It's supposed to be ridiculously hilarious and have a nonsensical storyline. The performances are great, and Rose Mcgowan is just hot, even with one leg and a gun where the other should be. Whether this helps or not : if the DVD release of "Planet Terror" is actually the same as the theatrical release over here, then the trailer for "Machete" should be included and should be right before the beginning of "Planet Terror", that's how it played over here. In any case, if you boycott these movies because they're being released seperately, then you're missing out on not one, but TWO great movies that are a guaranteed good time.

You know Hollywood has probably gone too far when film-makers consciously set out to make bad films. Or at least "so-bad-it's-good" films. In this case action director Robert Rodriguez of Sin City and Desperado fame and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) sought to replicate the whole "grindhouse" cinema effect with a movie called... drum roll please... Grindhouse. Grindhouses were cheap cinemas in the 1970s which showed B-rate exploitation flicks all day long -- usually in the form of double bills. Grindhouse (the movie) consisted of a "double bill" of two movies, namely Death Proof and Planet Terror. The cinema prints of both movies were deliberately "aged" with scratches, faded colors and so forth to replicate the whole watching a battered print at a grindhouse cinema effect. Planet Terror actually has a faux trailer before the movie itself starts (it is quite funny and very reminiscent of those 1970's action flicks) for a fictional movie titled Machete. It even has a deliberately "missing reel," letting the audience fill in the dots between scenes themselves. The DVD, by the way, goes one step further: you can select an audio track that replicates the cinema experience - you can hear an audience jeering and a guy eating pop corn in the seat next to you. Death Proof starred Kurt Russell as a serial killer who drives a 1970s muscle car and targeted young women -- that is, until a group of them fights back. In Planet Terror -- Rodriguez's flick -- cannibalistic zombies overrun a small town when a top secret virus is set loose at the nearby military base. The gore and violence is way over the top with some scenes directly stealing from movies such as The Thing, Evil Dead and Total Recall. The most notable image from the movie is of a sexy Rose McGowan as an amputee with a machine gun as a prosthetic. Sensitive viewers should take care to avoid it. It stars several Rodriguez regulars and Bruce Willis in a small cameo. Watching it is like watching some forgotten straight-to-video effort from the early 1980's -- Highly stylized and reminiscent of B-movies from that era, the color palettes are often a sickly green with a dated synth music score (of the sort Carpenter's films were noted for) on the soundtrack. Its like watching a movie you have never seen before, but feeling as if you had, but can't remember when. Cinema audiences however never got the joke as the whole "grindhouse" experience was as alien to today's young teenaged audiences that frequent today's multiplexes as were the concept of a drive-in. There were many incidents of audience members not realizing that the movie consisted of a double bill and leaving the cinemas before the second feature started. Cinema owners weren't too happy at the film's long running time either and didn't go to any trouble to keep the movie running when the film proved to be a box office disappointment. For the non-US. market (as well as the DVD release) it was thus decided to market and release the two movies separately. Thus with padded running times Death Proof and now Planet Terror are released as separate movies. All that remains of the whole "grindhouse" title is the "Grindhouse presents" moniker. Back when Grindhouse was released as one feature in the cinemas director Tarantino remarked on the film's odd concept that audiences were desperate for something fresh, new and different. It would seems that he was wrong as Grindhouse proved to be a major box office disappointment. Or was he? Perhaps this was a film that proved to be too creative for its target audience, in this day and age of high tech video games, and instant gratification movies that have to 'dumb themselves down' so audiences 'get it'. I think this was a film that the target audience needed to be kids - if not teens back in the late sixties, early seventies to appreciate what had just been viewed. THE DISC: The movie plus audio commentaries are to be found on the first disc. As stated previously, the film print has been deliberately aged to look much older than it is with all kinds of scratches, splotches, color fades and the like. The second disc is filled with behind-the-scenes making of featurettes and interviews with the various actors and creative people involved. Unfortunately no time is spent on explaining the whole "grindhouse" phenomenon and inspiration to any newbies. But it is interesting -- and ironic! -- to see how 2000's high-tech computer technology is used to replicate a low-tech early 1980's B-grade look and feel to the movie. RECOMMENDATION: Worth a look-see, particularly if you miss those genuine early 1980's B-grade straight-to-video efforts from that era's home video boom, and want to take a trip back to a time when movies were what they were - enjoyable, smart, and full of effort.

It's The Scream Queen here, This is my latest Quentin Tarantino Flick, that I FINALLY got 2 see. Rose is my favourite character.......LOVED it when she flipped off the strip club owner before taking her money and going. And I also thought the doctors wife was really cool, and they made a nice Scooby Gang like team. Rose being a lot like Faith with a gun for a leg. One of the best scenes is when she kicks Quentin's face in before she killed him, and the great ending....where they not only have the world they always knew they'd have back.....but she had a machine gun leg that blasted fiery bullets........Great flick, I can even add it to my collection of funny Scary movies like they made in the 80s like Ghoulies 2...........combined with Terminate 2.....Hey I am The Scream Queen.

I approached "Planet Terror" with some trepidition because Quentin Tarantino's segment of "Grindhouse", "Death Proof", was such a crashing bore. Well, Robert Rodriguez's flick is the polar opposite of that self-indulgent mess. Rodriguez inherently understands that the whole grindhouse experience is about fun and he delivers it in buckets. Whereas Tarantino had to spell out in capital letters his influences(we filmgoers can't be as knowledgable as the former video store clerk), Rodriguez references the work of George Romero and Tobe Hooper with maybe a touch of Sam Peckinpah without rubbing our noses in it. For sure there's a lot of gore here but Rodriguez presents it in such a hilarious tongue-in-cheek manner that you're never repulsed by it. Rose McGowan gives a star-making turn here and she has a classic beauty that reminded me of a latter day Rita Hayworth. I also liked Josh Brolin as a physician treating the infected. Brolin is a terrific actor and you should check him out as the heavy in the underrated "Into the Blue". Rodriguez with this film and "Sin City" puts himself in the first tier of American directors if only the critics would get over their aversion of the genres he works in. On a final note will somebody make a full-length version of "Machete", the film trailer that stars Danny Trejo and Cheech Marin.

It's a pity that Quentin Tarantino's/Robert Rodriguez's tribute to Grindhouse films didn't get the respect it deserves when it was first released. Filled with faux coming attractions (2 of them, Machete and Hobo With A Shotgun, would eventually be real films), with a double feature, the 2nd being Tarantino's Death Proof. Rodriguez's contribution, Planet Terror, is the superior one. Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan, who does a great dance in the opening credits)picks the wrong time to quit her job and leave town: it becomes overrun by zombies thanks to "Planet Terror," which is a bio-nerve gas. Seems that the military (Led by Bruce Willis, who is just all kinds of cool) needed it for personal reasons (I don't wanna spoil the storyline, but a line about Bin Laden seems weird considering), but a greedy scientist (Naveen Andrews) has other plans and accidently unleashes it. Pretty soon a group of survivors, including Dakota (Marley Shelton) whose all shades of crazy Dr. hubby (Josh Brolin) doesn't take kindly to her leaving him for her girlfriend (Black Eyed Peas's Fergie). Led by El Way (Freddy Rodríguez), they have to escape the zombie stampede. It's an INCREDIBLY GORY FILM! But that's what Grindhouse is about and kudos to Rodriguez for knowing this. It even has a "reel missing" scene that happens at the most inappropriate time, and the result is just fantastic. If you want the whole movie, which includes the trailer, go for it. But if you just want to enjoy the bloody mess of Planet Terror, then go for it. You'll love it.

The best part of Grindhouse (besides the fake trailers) was Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, which is now on DVD nearly a month after Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof was released. Though the Weinstein Company sadly decided to split the films for home video release (besides Machete, the fake trailers aren't here), the pair's Grindhouse films are an experience to say the least. Planet Terror revolves around Go-Go dancer Cherry (Rose McGowan) and her ex-flame El Wray (Freddy Rodriguez) who are caught in the middle of an undead outbreak. As survivors gather together, the military steps in with their own intentions, and thus let the blood bath begin. What really makes Planet Terror so good is that Robert Rodriguez is clearly having a blast with the proceedings, as he pays delightful homage to the exploitation flicks that inspired Grindhouse as a whole. There's nifty gore effects from industry master Greg Nicotero, and the rest of the cast, including Bruce Willis, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Stacy Ferguson, and Lost's Naveen Andrews, make memorable turns as well. Instantly enjoyable for zombie addicts and Rodriguez fans alike, Planet Terror is a deliciously bloody and gooey treat.

Si vous ne supportez pas la vue du sang,alors circulez,ce film n'est pas pour vous.Moi même qui suit un fan de films d'horreurs et autres films gore,il y a quand même des fois ou c'est un peu écoeurent .Enfin un peu seulement.Pour les autres,fans de films d'actions,horreurs,gore,fans de Quentin Tarantino,de Robert Rodriguez,de Tom Savini,alors prenez place ce film est pour vous.L'histoire démarre dans une petite ville rurale du Texas.Un groupe de soldats arrive dans une base militaire voisine.Dirigés par le lieutenant Muldoon,ils font une transaction commerciale avec un ingénieur chimiste nommé Abby,pour une grande quantité d'un agent biochimique mortel connue sous le nom de DC2.Lorsque Muldoon apprend que Abby a un approvisionnement suplémmentaire en main,il tente de prendre en otage Abby,et celui-ci libère volontairement le gaz dans l'air.Pendant ce temps William et Dakota Block,un couple de médecins,constatent que leurs patients sont soudains frappés par la gangrène et afféctés par un regard vide et inquiétant.....Tandis que les malades se multiplient et deviennent des zombies assoiffés de sang,un petit groupe se réunie et tente d'empêcher l'épidémie de se propager.Si des millions d'individus sont contaminés et que beaucoup succombes,une poignée d'entre eux se battrons jusqu'au bout pour se réfugier dans un lieux sûr..... Côté casting on est bien servit avec de la bonne camelote,c'est pas du toc,c'est du lourd.Rose Mac Gowan,Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin(le vrai méchant du film),Marley Selthon(Mortelle saint valentin,Scream 4),Jeff Fahey(Psychose 3,Darkman 3...), Michael Biehn(Grease,Terminator,Alien le retour,...),Bruce Willis,Quentin Tarantino,Naween Andrews(Le patient anglais,Rollerball ...),Tom Savini qui a beaucoup travaillé avec George A Romero,et quelques autres... Tout comme Alfred Hitchcock,John Carpenter,Quentin Tarantino, et d'autres grands réalisateurs,Robert Rodriguez nous a concocté un petit chef d'oeuvre à sa façon.Le grain du film et la façon de tourner,m'ont à certains moments fait penser à El mariachi,qui pour moi est un exemple du genre,et un vrais petit bijoux.L'ambiance général et l'atmosphère très particulière, l'humour(à ne pas prendre au premier degré),l'aspect très gore,beaucoup de sang,la violence,l'action et le scénario bien rythmé, régaleront les amateurs du genre.La dernière partie du film dans le desert,est un hommage non dissimulé au film culte Lawrence d'Arabie.Un clein d'oeil au film de John Carpenters Le prince des ténèbres,un autre à Psychose de A Hitchcock.Certains dialogue et l'ambiance du film renvoient à des classiques du genre horreurs-suspens comme,L'invasion des profanateurs de sépultures,en quatrième vitesse,ou encore des films de George A Romero.Pour finir, en bonus,la version commenté du réalisateur Robert Rodriguez en vost,et la conférence de presse "GRINDHOUSE"lors du comic con 2008.Pour la version collector,le disque 2 contient environ une heure de bonus complémentaire.Voilà,à bonne entendeur salut.

Acheté usagé. Reçu le lendemain en condition parfaite. Aucune marque sur le disque. Boitier impeccable.

There's some kind of Planet Terror renaissance going on - I had to order this from Amazon as the day I went into HMV to buy it they had sold all their copies (7) that morning. Having finally watched it, I can understand why. Robert Rodriguez makes a very special kind of film - irreverent, gross, subversive, outrageous, packed with great music and full of truly enjoyable moments. Despite the content they're a genuine joy to watch, and Planet Terror is no exception. With tongue firmly in cheek, all the men are heroes, all the women are stunning, all the violence is indulgent and exaggerated, and heads explode all over the place. I don't care how crass or silly or low-brow it is - Planet Terror is a film clearly made by someone who truly loves and really enjoys making films that are genuinely entertaining. I wish Rodriguez had convinced Salma Hayek to appear in it, but it's still worth every one of the 5 stars.

Und nicht nur, weil gleich zu Beginn dieses Leckerbissens!!!!! Abby, der EIERsammler schon live das nächste Opfer kastriert. Slashiger Splatter vom Allerallerfeinsten- DAS IST PLANET TERROR! Ein Hochgenuss für Horror- Freaks, wie ich es einer bin. Hehe. " KEINE Leichen für Daddy heute Nacht! AMEN ! " Oh doch! BITTE. ICH bitte darum!!!!! " Klar- machen wir!! " Wie wäre es mit abgrundtief ekelerregenden Bildern von übelkeiterregendsten Genitalkrankheiten.....oder eine dicke, verwulstete Zunge, die beim " fachmännischen " abtasten fabelhaft aufplatzt und dem Doc einwandfrei dickliche Eitersubstanzen auf die eh trübe Brille klatscht?? PLANET HORROR ist der ultimative Kick für Leute, die es gerne verdammt blutig mögen und mit medium nix oder nicht viel anfangen können. " Es breitet sich aus bis zur Schulter- und wenn wir den Arm nicht abnehmen, bis in den Brustkorb. Und den können wir ja schlecht abnehmen, oder? " - " Sollte ich nicht `ne zweite Meinung einholen?! " Herrlich- und so geht das ständig. Blut, Eiter, Spritz, Witz! Und dann sieht man sie. Dann kommen sie. Die fiesen dreckigen und ekelhaft widerwärtigen Zombies. Und schleppen die Plattgefahrenen von der Straße. Nachdem sie gekostet haben. Eine Schlachtplatte ohnegleichen. So soll es sein. Kaum zu glauben, dass ich die Cut- Version habe. Würde man alles herausschneiden, was jugendgefährdend( Schwachsinn) und nicht zumutbar ist(eh Schwachsinn), ja dann.. hätte PLANET TERROR gerade einmal eine Lauflänge von zwanzig Minuten! Alles da, wie ich es sehen will! Geil! Und die Bildquali auch! DAS.......... MUSS SO! DAS PASST SO!! *********************************************************************************************** Story: Weil ein biologisches Experiment nicht so fluppte, ganz klappte, na ja...halt schief ging, ist der Salat jetzt in der Form einer riesigen Herde Zombies( UNtoter!!!! ) DA!! Tssssss...... Rebellische Jungs und Mädel, bewaffnet von den Beinen bis zum Kopf, und mit Motorrädern natürlich auch, wollen DEN Salat jetzt fein anrichten und speziell garnieren. From Dusk to Gaudi!! ********************************************************************************* Fazit sabber: Selten sooo gelacht. Selten sooo geekelt. Ach wo- HAMMERFILM! Und nur etwas für Fans dieses Schlaraffen- Genres. Grins. PLANET TERROR- ein Film, der erwähnt werden muß. Auch von mir. Neben u. a. klasse Besetzung wie Rose Mc Gowan, Tarantino und Rodriguez, Blondchen Marley Shelton, Josh Brolin, Bruce Willis, Michael Biehn, Danny Trejo und Tom Savini gibt es ein rustikales Wiedersehen mit den LOST- Darstellern Jeff Fahey und Naveen Andrews. Der Cast alleine ist also schon einen sechsten Stern wert! Überdies ist PLANET TERROR ein Menü, das von der ersten kostbaren Minute an lecker deftig angerichtet serviert wird. Von wegen Finger weg! Kaufen.... reinlegen und sich wohl fühlen. Dreckiger und wahnsinniger geht`s kaum. Phantastische Gore- Effekte, kränkeste Zombie- Apokalypse, - und goldiger schwarzer Humor! Ein abgefahrener Film. Ein abgefahrener Sound. Ein wilder Cocktail...herrlich geschmacklos geil! Echtechtechtechtecht! :-))) _____________________ Lauflänge: Trotzdem abgefahrene 95 Minuten ( mit Abspann )!!!!!!!! Extras: Leider keine. Außer= Original Kinotrailer, Film- Tipps!! UND NATÜRLICH werde ich mir noch die UNcut- Version besorgen. Damit das Menü vollständigen Brechreiz garantiert! Hahaha. ICH LIEBE DIESEN FILM!!

El producto llegó en tiempo y forma, la película tiene audio en castellano 5.1 y subtítulos en latino por si alguien se lo pregunta, tiene dos discos, los extras no están subtitulados. Si quieres la película en Español latino deja pasar la versión importada y adquiere la nacional.