“Fuck that shit! Let’s kill this bastard.” Slashers are a staple of the horror genre. When we think about this lovably formulaic narrative trope we imagine masked killers, sharp knives, and final girls who find empowerment by picking up the killer’s weapon and refuse to play a part in someone else’s story. What we don’t […]
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Oh, balls. After concluding June with discussions of the wacky space antics (and commando drag queens) of Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen) and the underseen-but-very-good trans vampire film Bit (listen), we’re heading into grindhouse cinema with Robert Rodriguez‘s first half of the Grindhouse double-bill: Planet Terror (2007)! In the film, an experimental bio-weapon is released that turns the […]
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Grindhouse is one of the most influential box office failures of the 21st century. Despite grossing a paltry $25.4 million at the box office on a budget of around $60 million, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 love letter to exploitation cinema has managed to spawn four spin-off movies — Machete, Machete Kills, Hobo with […]
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It looks like Quentin Tarantino is headed back to the small screen before directing his tenth – and allegedly final – movie, with Tarantino himself revealing during a chat with Elvis Mitchell this week that he’s getting set to shoot a brand new TV project sometime next year. According to Variety, Tarantino told the crowd […]
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To date, the closest filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has come to making a straightforward horror movie is Death Proof, despite being a huge horror fan. So much so that it’s influenced his non-horror films and isn’t ruling out the genre for his next production. Now we can add another gory horror movie to the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s […]
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Timothy Olyphant will soon return in small screen reboot “Justified: City Primeval,” and we’re learning this week that Quentin Tarantino is in talks to direct a couple episodes! Variety reports that Tarantino is in “early talks” to direct “one or two episodes” of FX’s “Justified” reboot, which will bring Olyphant back as the character U.S. […]
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If you’ve seen The Hateful Eight, you’ve probably gathered that Quentin Tarantino is a big fan of John Carpenter‘s The Thing, even going so far as to utilize unused cues from Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for The Thing in his own snowy suspense tale. As it turns out, Reservoir Dogs was also inspired by The Thing, […]
Nostalgia is a curious thing, especially when it comes to film. Multi-media empires have been built on filmmakers revamping the entertainment of their youth for new audiences, but it’s extremely difficult for modern productions to capture the spirit of older movies without turning into exaggerated parodies. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and […]
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez collab From Dusk Till Dawn, a true mashup of styles from two of the coolest filmmakers out there. The 1996 vampire film notably put the big screen spotlight on a young George Clooney, who starred alongside Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Salma Hayek and of course, Tom Savini. From Dusk Till Dawn spawned two […]