NightMans Horror Movie Blog

Buckle up, this one is a bumpy ride.

     Yep, that was a pretty cheesy opening line, but then again I am commenting on a rather cheesy movie, so it seemed appropriate.  Deathproof is the other half of the Grindhouse double feature, brought to us by Quentin Tarantino, and Robert Rodriguez.  Of course this movie is Tarantino’s conbtribution.  Even if you didn’t know who had made it, you could probably guess.  Tarantino’s fingerprints are all over this movie.  Now normally that would be a good thing, except that he is supposed to be making a movie that looks and feels like a grindhouse pic from the 70’s.  Unsure of what a Grindhouse pic is?  Either read my last post, for Planet Terror, or look it up, I hate to repeat myself.  At any rate, the movie itself doe’s look like it came straight from the past, and has all the cliche’s you would expect.  Its really the dialogue that gives Tarantino away.  If you are familiar with his earlier works, you will be able to pick up on it right away.  Now as for the story itself.  Like my previous post, there isn’t a whole lot to tell.

     Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike.  A former stunt car driver, who now gets his kicks by stalking and killing groups of women with his reinforced “Deathproof” cars.  After dispatching with his first victims in Texas, he moves on to Tennesee to target a new group.  Unfortunately he is sloppy, and this group of girls is a whole lot more trouble than he expected.  Not only does Stuntman Mike fail to get the job done, the girls have decided to turn the tables on him, and now he is the prey.

     In all, its good cheesy fun, and has a chase scene that is excellent.  Do yourself a favour and watch both of the Grindhouse movies back to back the way they were intended.  You see, they were such a commercial flop at the theater, that they split them up for the U.K., and DVD release’s.