Review of: Planet Terror

5/5 (minimum 1)

by martinp on 14 Jan 2008

Writer and director Robert Rodriquez has hit his very best with this horror comedy. It weaves together a zombie storyline with a Texan chef's search for the perfect barbecue sauce recipe. Relentless in its pace, it packs in a great many visual and dialogue gags and outrageous action while burning some very scary images into your retinas. Despite being a loving tribute to the exploitation movies of the grindhouse era (complete with film imperfections), it has a pretty coherent plot and - surprisingly - genuine character development. It packs in scenes of gore and disease that rival the sickest underbelly of the web: you have to applaud the director's visual imagination, then ask for his to be sectioned. Other zombie movies look po-faced by comparison. If you like this sort of thing, this is a great evening's entertainment.

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Planet Terror

Tags: amputation body-modification bruce-willis cheese comedy exploitation film grindhouse homage horror movie pastiche robert-rodriguez rose-mcgowan shoot-out texas zombie
Homepage: http://imdb.com/title/tt1077258/
See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Terror