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Grindhouse is a 2007 Double Feature film by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. It affectionately parodies 1970s B-Movies complete with "Coming Attractions" and in-betweener cartoons.In Rodriguez's movie, Planet Terror, a military transaction goes awry and an experimental poison gas is released on a small town in rural Texas, turning the unsuspecting civilians into bloodthirsty zombies. The only people who can stop them are a go-go-dancer with a gun for a leg, her expert gunman ex-boyfriend, a pair of crazy babysitter twins, a shellshocked doctor, a Jerkass cop, a crusty sheriff, a scientist obsessed with balls, and many other trailer-park freaks from deep in the Heart of Texas.In Tarantino's movie, Death Proof, a stuntman uses his small fame to pick up girls, then kills them with his car. Little does he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are stuntwomen... and among them is Zoë Bell (playing herself), who also doubled for Uma Thurman in Kill Bill in real life. Boy, is Stuntman Mike in for a world of hurt...The double feature also included several fake movie trailers, a few of which were actually invokedmade into real movies: Machete — "Mexploitation film" in which a Mexican former federale turned day laborer named Machete, played by Danny Trejo, becomes a hitman who goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against those who set him up; also directed by Rodriguez. invokedWas turned into an actual movie in 2010, and then got a sequel, Machete Kills. Werewolf Women of the SS — Exactly What It Says on the Tin, director Rob Zombie brings you a brilliant achievement in motion picture history. Finally, the truth about Hitler's diabolical plans to create a race of superwomen can be told. Starring Udo Kier, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tom Towles, Sybil Danning, Bill Moseley, *gong clash* invokedand Nicolas Cage as... Fu Manchu! Don't — Video Nasties-style Britsploitation Screamer Trailer with narration by Will Arnett, directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Matthew McFadyen, Mark Gatiss, Jason Isaacs who get caught up in some kind of weird "house of horrors" situation. The main joke of the trailer is that it's the American trailer for a British horror film, and the distributors, in order to prevent the audience from finding out that it's British, have cut the trailer so that none of the characters are heard speaking and we get no idea of the plot.note The title is a reference to American International Pictures' releases of British or European horror films under "snazzier" titles - specifically, a film whose Spanish and Italian titles translate to I Do Not Profane the Sleep of the Dead, but was released in the USA as Don't Open the Window! even though there's no particular emphasis on windows in the film. Thanksgiving — A gore-soaked Slasher Movie featuring a killer pilgrim, brought to you by Eli Roth. Features some of the most over-the-top usage of death by sex yet to be put on film and a Running Gag of decapitations, which probably would have gotten Grindhouse an NC-17 rating were it not for some very strategically-placed film scratches. Ends with a shot of the killer invokedhumping a Thanksgiving turkey. Became a real movie in 2023.And in some select theaters: Hobo With a Shotgun — Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Hobo takes the law into his own hands. Made by a couple of independent filmmakers from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This one was also invokedturned into a full-length movie. Many other indie trailers were made and considered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and although this was the one featured in the film, a lot of the others (visible on YouTube) are pretty good, too.
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Dirty Coward
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Dirty Coward: The owner of the go-go dancing club. Stuntman Mike proves himself to little more than a bully, and as such a coward.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: Quentin Tarantino appears in both movies (he technically didn't direct Planet Terror, but Robert Rodriguez has stated he was a large part of the creative process). Rodriguez also appears as one of the terrorists selling the biochemicals at the beginning. Eli Roth appears in the Thanksgiving trailer as the teen who loses his head while his girlfriend is giving him head.
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Drunk Driver
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The girls in the first half of Death Proof. They drink a ridiculous amount of alcohol, and then spend an hour or more smoking weed, before driving down the road in the middle of the night, wearing no seat belts and paying more attention to the radio than the road. It's a miracle they didn't die before Mike even got to them.
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Deadly Road Trip
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Deadly Road Trip: In Death Proof, you do not want to get in that car.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Several, most famously the one from Werewolf Women of the SS:
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Cute Kitten
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Everything's Cuter with Kittens: To remind viewers that these films are X-rated.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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I'm a Humanitarian: Both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the Don't trailer. Pegg plays the role of the "bearded cannibal" for a split second, while Frost has a much more memorable few seconds as the hilariously, dementedly creepy "baby eater" in the nursery◊. Or...baby eaters, since there seem to be three of him.
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Captain Obvious: "It's blood."
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Stylistic Suck
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Stylistic Suck: The theatrical release features a lot of grainy footage, broken frames, missing reels, and a few invokedSpecial Effect Failures to simulate how poorly made most grindhouse films back in the day were made, used, and stored. They were cleaned up for the DVD release of Death Proof, but Planet Terror kept them all in.
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Record Needle Scratch
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Record Needle Scratch: Used during Thanksgiving to introduce the pilgrim killer during the parade.
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Girls Behind Bars
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Girls Behind Bars: "Women in Cages"
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Glamorous Wartime Singer
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Glamorous Wartime Singer: In the Werewolf Women of the SS trailer.
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Yellowface: Parodied with Nicolas Cage, a white man, starring as the Chinese Fu Manchu in the Werewolf Women of the SS trailer.
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Painting the Medium
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Painting the Medium: The films go to great lengths to give that authentic 1970s grindhouse feel, such as fake trailers, grainy footage, missing reels, jumping scenes, burned film, terrible synthesized music, an ad for a Tex-Mex restaurant which is supposedly next door to the theater you are watching the movie in, etc. It even goes as far as to use real life cinema idents from the 1970s. In one scene of Planet Terror, a large crane is clearly visible. Rodriguez considered removing it by computer, but then decided that leaving it visible would be much more grindhouse-like.
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Sex Signals Death
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Sex Signals Death: A running gag in the Thanksgiving trailer. You've got a cheerleader stripping on a trampoline then getting a knife through her vulva, a guy getting decapitated mid-fellatio, and another decapitated while making out with someone.
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Yellow Peril
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Yellow Peril: In the fake trailer Werewolf Women of the SS, Those Wacky Nazis are in league with the Fu Manchu syndicate. Whether he's Piggybacking on Hitler or supposed to be a Greater-Scope Villain is hard to tell because of the few seconds he's onscreen.
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Logo Joke: The logo for Dimension Films at the start of Planet Terror is fittingly done in the simpler style of '70s film logos. Death Proof takes this a step further by not starting with the logo of Dimension Films, but instead starting with the logo of Dimension Pictures, which is a defunct film studio that ran from 1971-to-1981 and primarily produced exploitation and horror films.
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Recurring Character: Dakota Block appears in both films, as does her father, Sheriff Earl McGraw, who has appeared in various other films by Tarantino and Rodriguez.
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Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror
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Author Appeal: Tarantino once more indulges his foot fetish. Rose McGowan's dance scene at the beginning of Planet Terror would just be Fanservice, except that she and Rodriguez became a couple shortly after this movie came out.
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Evil Laugh: Nicolas Cage does some impressive cackling in stereo as Fu Manchu.
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Developing Doomed Characters
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Developing Doomed Characters: Death Proof is a study in this, spending the entire first half of the film with a group of women who die with absolutely zero impact on the plot. While some find this tedious, it forces the audience to throw out their expectations as to which characters are important and will survive, creating genuine tension in the final car chase.
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Shared Universe: In Death Proof, Stuntman Mike kills his first victims of the movie just outside the small town Planet Terror takes place in, the sheriff of that town is seen in the hospital scene talking about the "Accident"
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Guess who? "THIS... is my MECCA!!! Muahhahahaha!!
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Stupid Jetpack Hitler
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Stupid Jetpack Hitler/Ghostapo: We repeat: Werewolf Women of the SS And the Nazis even bring Fu Manchu's Yellow Peril!
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Dolled-Up Installment
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Dolled-Up Installment: The Art Shift when Fu Manchu appears in the Werewolf Women of the SS trailer may be intended to imply that the scenes featuring him were cut in from a different film to turn WWotSS into part of his franchise.
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Art Shift: The Fu Manchu segment of "Werewolf Women" looks rougher than the rest of the trailer, indicating that they might actually be two incomplete films merged into one.
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Retraux
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The Ketchup Test
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The Ketchup Test: In the Thanksgiving trailer.
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Death by Cameo
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Death by Cameo: Fergie, Tom Savini, Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Willis....
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Thanksgiving was devised as an Homage to holiday-themed slashers that were so popular in the late-70's, early-80's.
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Feminist Fantasy
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Feminist Fantasy: Death Proof
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Doomed by Canon
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Doomed by Canon: invokedWhilst their identity may be missed initially, anyone recognizing Earl McGraw knows that, under the assumption that the plot is canon, they must survive (due to his appearances in Kill Bill 1, Death Proof and From Dusk Till Dawn (in which he dies at the beginning). There's actually a bit of Continuity Snarl, since Planet Terror ends with the world falling to zombies and Earl still alive, while Dusk has him dying in a perfectly zombie-free world.
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The girls in the first half of Death Proof are shown driving while drunk, stoned, and not wearing seatbelts. While this is seen as unacceptably reckless and dangerous today, it wasn't as stigmatized back in the 1970s. Nicolas Cage playing Fu Manchu in Werewolf Women of the SS is likely an homage to the fact that Asian characters (including Fu Manchu himself) were frequently played by white actors in less racially sensitive times.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Kim's training as a stunt driver comes into play as soon as Mike begins his pursuit, and ends with a savage Car Fu retaliation. Meanwhile, Zoe Bell, stuntwoman, is fully qualified to go flying off the hood of a Dodge Charger into a nearby ditch, only to pop up shouting "I'm Ok!" Cherry's numerous "useless skills" - she finds a use for almost all of them by the end of the film
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: "Don't" has "If you are thinking..."
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Pretty much every female character.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: The girls in the first half of Death Proof. They drink a ridiculous amount of alcohol, and then spend an hour or more smoking weed, before driving down the road in the middle of the night, wearing no seat belts and paying more attention to the radio than the road. It's a miracle they didn't die before Mike even got to them. Planet Terror: Granted, it was during a zombie epidemic, but giving your young son a fully loaded gun without even teaching him how to use it seems pretty stupid. And it ends up as well as you would expect.
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Slasher Movie
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Slasher Movie: Parodied in Thanksgiving.
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Car Fu
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Kim's training as a stunt driver comes into play as soon as Mike begins his pursuit, and ends with a savage Car Fu retaliation. Meanwhile, Zoe Bell, stuntwoman, is fully qualified to go flying off the hood of a Dodge Charger into a nearby ditch, only to pop up shouting "I'm Ok!"
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Recut
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Recut: The two features were released separately overseas and on DVD, due to the whole double-feature concept not translating to foreign markets, and both are longer, restoring the "missing reel" that Death Proof had in the U.S. theatrical cut - the missing reel for Planet Terror covers up a major plot point, and as such, was never filmed. The theatrical cut did eventually make it to DVD, though.
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie: Several of them!
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: George A. Romero makeup artist Tom Savini's death in Planet Terror is very similar to another character's death in Romero's Day of the Dead (1985). Death Proof makes a lot of references that have already been made in other Tarantino films. Kim's car has the same pattern as the Bride's jumpsuit in Kill Bill 1, but before that, it was Bruce Lee's jumpsuit. Abernathy's ringtone is the "Twisted Nerve" whistle used in Kill Bill, but Bernard Hermann originally wrote it for something else. The only honest-to-God self-reference is when Mike mentions Big Kahuna burgers, a running gag in Tarantino's films. Also, there are Red Apple cigarettes in Planet Terror. There's even a shout out in Planet Terror to Death Proof: a DJ on the radio dedicates a song to Jungle Julia, in honor of her death. And if you watch closely, Dakota in Planet Terror has a small notepad listing stuff to do. The last thing in that list? Kill Bill. Her husband is Dr. William Block... And Rosario Dawson's character complains about her crush having sex with Daryl Hannah's stand-in. Daryl Hannah played Elle in "Kill Bill" Stuntman Mike's car has a 'rubber duck' hood mascot The scene of the weapons on the table in the Machete trailer is straight out of Escape from New York.
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Madwoman in the Attic
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Madwoman in the Attic: Possibly part of the plot to Don't
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Vigilante Man
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Vigilante Man: Hobo With a Shotgun
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type
Genre Throwback
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comment
Genre Throwback: To 1970s B-Movies. Don't even recalls how British horror movies were promoted back then.
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type
Refuge in Audacity
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Refuge in Audacity: Basically the whole thing.
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Exploitation Film
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Exploitation Film: Errr, yeah; the whole point. Mexploitation: Machete, and with it, Machete Kills. Nazisploitation: Werewolf Women of the SS. Feminist Fantasy: Death Proof Girls Behind Bars: "Women in Cages" Vigilante Man: Hobo With a Shotgun
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type
Male Gaze
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comment
Male Gaze
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1.0
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1.0
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Grindhouse / int_dfb71617
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type
Nazisploitation
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comment
Nazisploitation: Werewolf Women of the SS.
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1.0
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Camp
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comment
Camp
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type
Gorn
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comment
Gorn
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1.0
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1.0
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Grindhouse / int_e542d889
 Grindhouse / int_ee7a60e9
type
One-Steve Limit
 Grindhouse / int_ee7a60e9
comment
One-Steve Limit: Averted; both movies feature major characters named Abby.
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The Baroness
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comment
The Baroness: Werewolf Women of the SS
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1.0
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1.0
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Grindhouse / int_f55d739f
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type
Reverse Psychology
 Grindhouse / int_f7588306
comment
Reverse Psychology: Don't, a fictional movie trailer included in the film, spoofs the horror movie version of the trope; a narrator repeatedly issues warnings to not go into the haunted house, not look in the basement, etc., while the characters on screen do just that.
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1.0
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1.0
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Grindhouse / int_f7588306
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type
Running Gag
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comment
Running Gag: Several, most notably the missing reels.
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Grindhouse / int_f9f2c33
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type
Evil Is Hammy
 Grindhouse / int_fdf22cfd
comment
Evil Is Hammy: Nicolas Cage as... Fu Manchu!
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1.0
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