Planet Terror

It's finally happening, folks! Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's celebration of gory B-movies, Grindhouse, will be coming home to Blu-ray high definition this fall, complete and with faux trailers intact, and we've got all of the details for you!

It's finally happening, folks! Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's celebration of gory B movies, Grindhouse, will be coming home to Blu-ray high definition this fall, complete and with faux trailers intact!

Even though it pretty much failed as a box office experiment we're all pretty big fans of the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino celebration of gory B Movies that was Grindhouse. And while fans were divided on which movie was better, Planet Terror or Death Proof everyone pretty much agreed on one thing -- the faux trailers between the features were friggin' amazing!

With The Crazies (review here) remake bursting down our door, I thought it would be a good opportunity for Dread Central to look back at some of the most memorable virus/outbreak movies of the genre’s past. It’s a slippery slope when determining what constitutes a viral plague versus a standard zombie apocalypse, but I boiled my criteria down to one basic rule: The carnage must be driven by an infection, and re-animated corpses crawling out of the dirt need not apply.

Those of you still waiting for the Grindhouse films Planet Terror and Death Proof to hit DVD in a complete theatrical package (with the faux trailers!) might just have a reason to rejoice.

Reviewed by Uncle Creepy Starring (Planet Terror) Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey; (Death Proof) Michael Bacall, Nicky Katt, Rose McGowan, James Parks, Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell

A very small list of horror DVDs are coming your way this Tuesday, December 16th. Almost makes you wonder why the even bother on such a scant week, doesn’t it?