Every Fake Movie Trailer In Grindhouse
The most memorable parts of Grindhouse are Planet Terror and Death Proof, but the project also included fake trailers that are worth watching.
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In 2007, Grindhouse saw Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teaming up to bring a horror double-feature experience with two very different films, but there’s a part of this project that has been either ignored or under-appreciated: the fake movie trailers. Grindhouse was a full experience with two feature-length segments, advertisements, in-theatre announcements, and fake trailers for upcoming films, all in the style of B-movies with filters that make the images look deteriorated and effects to make them look jumpy and old.
Planet Terror and Death Proof are the main attractions of Grindhouse, and they are very different from one another, although both fall into the category of “exploitation films”: Planet Terror is about zombies, and Death Proof is about a psychopathic stuntman. Very much like them, the fictional trailers are very different from each other, and some of them went from fake to full-length features a few years later.
Grindhouse had a total of five fake trailers, all of them from different directors. Robert Rodriguez not only brought Planet Terror to the project but also a trailer for Machete, starring Danny Trejo as the titular character. Machete is a former Mexican federale whose weapon of choice is a machete (of course), but is pretty skilled with firearms too. Machete went on to become a full-length feature in 2010, with the sequel Machete Kills released in 2013. Rob Zombie also brought a piece of his work with Werewolf Women of the SS. The title is pretty self-explanatory: the Nazis experiment to create werewolf women. The trailer starred Udo Kier, Sheri Moon Zombie, Sybil Danning, and Nicolas Cage. Like most of Zombie’s work, this trailer is not for everyone, but it’s a good addition to the Grindhouse experience.
Don’t was Edgar Wright’s contribution to Grindhouse, and it’s all about horror movie clichés. The trailer features a lot of well-known actors in very short appearances, such as Jason Isaacs, Matthew Macfadyen, Lucy Punch, Rafe Spall, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Mark Gatiss, MyAnna Buring, and many others. The title is a reference to all those things you’re not supposed to do in horror movies yet every character does (“don’t open that door”, “don’t look behind”), and it’s the only trailer without dialogue. Thanksgiving was made by Eli Roth in the style of holiday-themed slasher films. It’s the most graphic trailer of the bunch, and starred Jeff Rendell as the killer pilgrim, with Jay Hernandez, Jordan Ladd, and Roth himself as some of his victims.
Finally, there’s Hobo with a Shotgun, a trailer that was shown at selected theaters and earned its spot because it won Rodriguez’s SXSW Grindhouse trailers contest. It was created by Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill, and follows a vagabond with a shotgun who becomes a vigilante. The trailer became a full-length feature in 2010 with Rutger Hauer as the Hobo. Grindhouse was not only a way to bring the experience of watching exploitation films in multiple-feature format, but it was also an opportunity for other filmmakers to have as much fun and creative freedom as they wanted with their fake trailers, and in the case of Hobo with a Shotgun, an opportunity for new talents to showcase their work.
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