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Since there has been some discussion of Grindhouse, and since I just saw it, I thought I'd give a report. As expected, it doesn't deliver that much in the way of GIMP action, although it has more brutality toward sexy women than you might expect. More often though, it's a tease. There are several set ups for rape scenes, but no real payoffs. Rose McGowan does get threatened and leered at in several effective scenes, and she gets the shit beat out of her (in Death Proof, where she plays a really small part, not in Planet Terror where she stars as the former stripper who fights Zombies with the leg-gun thingie).
Planet Terror is a blast, but Death Proof is a lot more interesting from a GIMP fans perspective. It's kind of a cross between an I Spit on Your Grave/ Death Wish rape-revenge movie and a Roger Corman car chase movie. Its got a creepy baddy who stalks and kills and who gets his comeuppance from some tough chicks, but since he uses his car as his weapon, the sexual charge of the whole thing is pretty low. As an homage to the grindhouse/drive in experience, the movie is about as good as it could be, but think more Jack Hill, Roger Corman, George Romero and John Carpenter. Don't expect to see anything like Jess Franco or Ilsa, although Rob Zombie's fake trailer for Werewolves of the S.S. shows that his heart is in a pervy place, even if the MPAA made him cut the thing all to pieces.
As a "movie" movie, it's an A+, but as a GIMP movie it's a C-, lots of teasin' (more than you'd think actually. . . one set up for a rape comes pretty much out of the blue), but not much pleasin'. I can't wait for Hostel 2. That might actually deliver both.
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