| Product Summary | | Publisher: WEINSTEIN COMPANY | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00796019803878 | | Buy.com Sku: 205746614 | | Item#: V2L6KY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 4870 | | Category Keywords: Zombies | | Rating: UR |
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Features: DVD, Widescreen
Robert Rodriguez, co-director of Sin City, brings you Planet Terror, a retro-futuristic vision of horror that's been weathered, stripped, and aged to perfection.In Planet Terror, married doctors William and Dakota Block (Josh Brolin and Marley Shelton) find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by gangrenous sores and a suspiciously vacant look in their eyes. Among the wounded is Cherry (Rose McGowan), a go-go dancer whose leg was ripped from her body during a roadside attack. Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), her former significant other, is at her side and watching her back. Cherry may be down, but she hasn't danced her last number. As the invalids quickly becomes enraged aggressors, Cherry and Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night, hurtling towards a destiny that will leave millions infected, countless dead, and a lucky few struggling to find the last safe corner of Planet Terror.
"...a splatter-heavy zombie flick, which doesn't feel all that different from the director's 1996 vampire flick "From Dusk Till Dawn."" Giovanni Fazio, The Japan Times
"An instant classic." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Editor's Note
Director Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) pays homage to his favorite B-movies with PLANET TERROR, an old-fashioned zombie film that's infused with enough gore and giggles to please even Peter Jackson (BAD TASTE). Rose McGowan (CHARMED) plays Cherry, a go-go dancer whose night is interrupted by a vicious zombie attack that leaves her missing a leg. Her ex-boyfriend, Wray (Freddy Rodriguez, SIX FEET UNDER), takes charge, fashioning her a new leg from a machine gun and killing zombies along the way. PLANET TERROR plays as a pleasing ode to the horror and exploitation films that once played in grimy grindhouses across the country. Rodriguez splashes plenty of blood, guts, and gore across the screen, while also taking the plot into some wonderfully bizarre territory. PLANET TERROR was originally released as part of the GRINDHOUSE double feature with Quentin Tarantino's DEATH PROOF.
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Release Information
| | Studio: WEINSTEIN COMPANY |
| Release Date: 5/12/2009 |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 80387 | | UPC: 00796019803878 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "[The film] delivers an entertaining mix of action, gnarly gore gross-out and humor all on its own." 11/01/2007 p.94Entertainment Weekly
"[A] splatterific tale of zombie types running amok in a rural Texas town..." -- Grade: B- 10/19/2007 p.112 Total Film
"[An] homage to drive-in horror's cheap 'n' nasty heyday....[With] a game support cast, including sharp-shooting drifter Freddy Rodriguez and embattled sheriff Michael Biehn." 11/01/2007 p.66 Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "There are great scenes....It's hard not to cheer at the sick effects and slick stunts..." 10/19/2007 p.76 Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "Like John Carpenter's best, the action takes place in an endless night, in a town where the dead are coming back to life." 12/01/2007 p.133 Sight and Sound
"The film shares several characters with DEATH PROOF, but it's located closer to KILL BILL and SIN CITY..." 12/01/2007 p.84 ReelViews 8 of 10
With Grindhouse, a valentine to exploitation films, it's all out in the open. Depending on your point-of-view, this is either a nostalgic stroll through a cheesy slice of American pop culture or an attempt to provide a tongue-in-cheek reinvigoration of it. Most likely, it's a little of both...Planet Terror offers a familiar horror storyline: a ragtag group of survivors battling against an army of zombies. As the stripper Cherry, Rose McGowan is the standout here. After having her leg gnawed off by the diseased creatures, she rebounds with a fake limb that doubles as a gun and rocket launcher. Cherry's not the kind of girl you want to mess with. She's surrounded by the usual suspects, including Freddy Rodriguez as Wray (who's really good with guns and knives), Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block (who's really good with needles), and Bruce Willis as a corrupt military guy (who's not good with much of anything)...Grindhouse is the kind of movie where it's necessary to put aside pretensions and enjoy the product on its terms, with all the sexiness, violence, gore, and camp as part of the parcel. - James Berardinelli
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