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Grindhouse: Planet Terror
from: Varese Sarabande
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0030206680720
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Varese Sarabande
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
MPN: 066807
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Varese Sarabande
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Studio: Varese Sarabande
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Editorial Review:
This Robert Rodriguez-written-and-directed half of Grindhouse, his and Quentin Tarantino's $50+ million valentine to '70s exploitation fare, turns on the typically over-the-top tale of a go-go dancer (Rose McGowan) whose severed leg is replaced by an assault weapon-cum-prosthetic. But unlike the typically frenzied stew of pop gems, vintage soundtrack obscurities, and dizzy oddities Tarantino uses to score his Death Proof half of the project, Rodriguez continues his John Carpenter-inspired habit of writing and performing the music for his. Anchored by a snarling, guitar-driven instrumental title theme that sounds like it was piped in straight from a strip club in Hades, the director's score is a gritty, frequently metal-driven sonic m#233;lange. Previous musical cohort Graeme Revell again collaborates on a handful of tracks (with additional contributions from Carl Thiel, George Oldziey, and Rick Del Castillo), and there are moments that instantly recall their dank work on Sin City, particularly the throbbing sax-uality of "Grindhouse Blues." Star McGowan contributes a trio of languorously wasted vocal turns on a cover of "You Belong to Me" and the alternately electro-clubby/flamencoesque Rodriguez originals "Useless Talent #42" and "Two Against the World." Completing the score's evocative musical recipe, Nouvelle Vague offer up a breathy, tongue-in-cheek cover of the Dead Kennedys' "Too Drunk to Fuck" while Chingon turns in a searing, Latin-metal fusion take of Rodriguez's own "Cherry's Dance of Death." --Jerry McCulley
"Grind House" - noun - A downtown movie theater -- in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the '30s and '40s -- known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies. From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ultimate film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that will recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. GRIND HOUSE will be presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino's film, Death Proof, is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in Planet Terror. Welcome to the grind house -- it'll tear you in two.
The riveting score for GRIND HOUSE is by Rodriguez himself.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Useless Talent #78
This review was a long time coming; I've had Rodriguez's pumping, muscular main theme for "Planet Terror" in my head since I saw the "Grindhouse" anthology feature over a year ago. Few film directors score their own movies and even fewer do it well; John Carpenter is renowned for a tendency to tackle both the musical and directorial chores in his movies, and so is Rodriguez. The music of "Planet Terror" mostly consists of beefy rock tracks characteristic of guitar and saxophone riffs not unlike those ... Read More
Rating: - grindhouse lover
I live in Australia.
we never got to experience the whole grindhouse, as both movies were shown seperately.
Planet Terror is my pick of the two, and the soundtrack is brillent on it's own.
Rating:  - Standard
Really only bought this for one song. The rest are pretty forgetable.
Standard soundtrack fare. Nothing really special. Only wish they could have added some movie dialog.
Rating:  - reviewed for me not you
i really liked the movie and the music; but i'm not doing this review for you, i'm doing so my recommendations will be based on other music like this.
Rating:  - Soundtrack is Second Rate.
The soundtrack to "Planet Terror" part of the "Grindhouse" double feature that appeared in movie theaters this past summer is at best medicore, and it is surely second rate compared to the soundtrack to "Deathproof"
Now THERE'S a awesome soundtrack to go out and buy. "Deathproof" definetly wasn't the better movie compared to "Planet Terror" , no argument about that, but the soundtrack to the movie beats the album for "Planet Terror" hands down.
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