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| Planet Terror | |
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| Directed by | Robert Rodriguez |
| Written by | Robert Rodriguez |
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| Cinematography | Robert Rodriguez |
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| Music by | Robert Rodriguez |
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| Distributed by | Dimension Films |
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| Running time | 105 minutes[1] 91 minutes (grindhouse) |
| State | United States |
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| Budget | $23 million |
| Box role | $x.9 million[2] |
Planet Terror is a 2007 American action horror one-act motion picture written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Set in Texas, the motion picture follows the survivors of a biochemical outbreak every bit they battle zombie-like creatures and a rogue armed services unit. It stars Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Josh Brolin, and Marley Shelton.
The film was originally released theatrically as office of Grindhouse, a double feature that combined Planet Terror with Quentin Tarantino'south Death Proof. After Grindhouse underperformed at the domestic box part, Planet Terror was released as a standalone characteristic in other countries and on home media. It received positive reviews, with nigh critics considering information technology the superior of Grindhouse 's two films.
Plot [edit]
In rural Texas, go-get dancer Cherry Darling runs into her mysterious ex-fellow El Wray at the Os Shack, a restaurant endemic by brothers J.T. and Sheriff Hague. Meanwhile, the demented Lt. Muldoon and his men make a transaction with chemical engineer Abby for mass quantities of DC2, a deadly biochemical agent. When Muldoon learns that Abby has an actress supply, he attempts to accept Abby hostage, causing him to release the gas into the air, mutating nearly of the town'southward residents into deformed zombies. The infected townspeople are treated by Dr. William Cake and his unhappy, unfaithful, and bisexual anesthesiologist wife, Dakota at a local hospital.
Random attacks begin along the highway, causing El Wray and Cherry to crash. In the aftermath, several zombies tear off Cherry's right leg. At the hospital is Tammy, the former lover of Dakota, who Block recognizes. Upon realizing Dakota was most to leave him for Tammy, he stabs Dakota's hands with her anesthetic syringe needles repeatedly, rendering them useless, earlier locking her in a closet.
El Wray is detained by Sheriff Hague based on by encounters between the two. Equally the patients mutate, El Wray leaves the station and arrives at the hospital, attaching a wooden table leg to Crimson'due south stump. Every bit El Wray and Carmine fight their style out of the hospital, Dakota manages to escape in her auto. Meanwhile, Block becomes infected forth with others, while Red and El Wray take refuge at the Bone Shack.
Dakota retrieves her son Tony and takes him to her estranged father, Texas Ranger Earl McGraw. (Following a "missing reel" segment) Dakota, Earl, Cherry'due south old boss Skip, and Tony's crazed babysitter twins arrive at the Bone Shack. With Hague badly injured, the group decides to flee to the Mexican border, before existence stopped by a large mass of zombies. Muldoon's men go far, killing the zombies before absorbing the group. Abby tells them that the soldiers are stealing the gas supply considering they are infected and constant inhalation of the gas delays mutation. They also acquire that some of the population is immune, hinting at the possibility of a cure.
As Cherry and Dakota are taken away by two soldiers, the others defeat the guards. J.T. sustains a gunshot wound in the procedure while the grouping searches for Muldoon. When he is found by El Wray and Abby, Muldoon explains that he killed Osama bin Laden before he and his men were infected and were ordered to protect the surface area earlier being killed by Abby and El Wray. Meanwhile, Cherry is held at gunpoint and forced to dance by a soldier who threatens to rape her. Eventually, she breaks her wooden leg across his face and stabs him in the center. Dakota, after realizing her hands have regained feeling, uses her syringe launcher to subdue some other soldier. El Wray and Abby arrive to rescue Cherry-red and Dakota; El Wray replaces Cherry's cleaved wooden leg with an assault rifle.
J.T. decides to stay backside to detonate explosives to eliminate the remaining zombies while the others flee. The survivors brand plans to escape by stealing helicopters after fighting through a large group of zombies, but Abby dies in the process. While saving Cherry from a zombie, El Wray is fatally wounded. Cherry, now sporting a minigun leg, leads survivors to the Caribbean beach at Tulum, where they start a peaceful new social club during a worldwide zombie outbreak. It is besides revealed that Cherry has given birth to her and El Wray's daughter.
In a post-credits scene, Tony is sitting on the beach at the survivor's "base" playing with his turtle, scorpion and tarantula.
Cast [edit]
- Rose McGowan as Red Darling
- Freddy Rodriguez as "El Wray"
- Josh Brolin as Dr. William Block
- Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block
- Jeff Fahey equally J.T. Hague
- Michael Biehn equally Sheriff Hague
- Rebel Rodriguez equally Tony Block
- Bruce Willis as Lieutenant Muldoon
- Naveen Andrews as Dr. John "Abby" Abbington
- Julio Oscar Mechoso as Romy
- Fergie every bit Tammy Visan (credited every bit "Stacy Ferguson")
- Nicky Katt equally Joe
- Hung Nguyen as Dr. Crane
- Tom Savini as Deputy Tolo
- Carlos Gallardo as Deputy Carlos
- Skip Reissig as Skip
- Electra and Elise Avellan as Crazy Babysitter Twins
- Quentin Tarantino as Lewis, Rapist #one
- Greg Kelly every bit Rapist #2
- Michael Parks as Earl McGraw
- Jerili Romero as Ramona McGraw
- Felix Sabates as Dr. Felix
History and development [edit]
Robert Rodriguez first came up with the idea for Planet Terror during the product of The Faculty. "I remember telling Elijah Wood and Josh Hartnett, all these young actors, that zombie movies were dead and hadn't been around in a while, merely that I thought they were going to come back in a big way because they'd been gone for so long," recalled Rodriguez, "I said, 'Nosotros've got to be there first.' I had [a script] I'd started writing. Information technology was near 30 pages, and I said to them, 'In that location are characters for all of you lot to play.' We got all excited near it, and then I didn't know where to become with it. The introduction was virtually equally far as I'd gotten, and so I got onto other movies. Sure enough, the zombie [movie] invasion happened and they all came back over again, and I was like, 'Ah, I knew that I should've made my zombie moving picture.'" The story was reapproached when the thought for Grindhouse was adult by Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.[3]
Planet Terror is preceded by a fake trailer for a movie titled Machete, starring Danny Trejo and Cheech Marin, as information technology had during the original "double feature" presentation of Grindhouse. Rodriguez wrote Machete in 1993 as a total feature for Danny Trejo. "I had cast him in Desperado and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this guy should take his ain series of Mexican exploitation movies like Charles Bronson or like Jean-Claude Van Damme.' And then I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U.S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don't want to become their own agents killed on, they'll rent an agent from Mexico to come up exercise the task for $25,000. I idea, 'That'south Machete. He would come and do a actually dangerous job for a lot of money to him but for anybody else over hither it'southward peanuts.' But I never got around to making it."[four] It was later appear that the trailer would be made equally a feature moving picture Machete.[5] [half-dozen] Equally for the reference to "Projection Terror," Rodriguez paid homage to the late night horror show "Project Terror" which aired in Rodriguez's hometown of San Antonio, Texas on KENS-TV during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Production [edit]
Directing [edit]
According to actress Marley Shelton, Rodriguez and Tarantino "really co-directed, at least Planet Terror. Quentin was on set up a lot. He had notes and adjustments to our performances and he inverse lines every once in a while. Of course, he always deferred to Robert on Planet Terror and vice versa for Death Proof. So it's really both of their brainchild."[seven] Tarantino has stated, "I can't imagine doing Grindhouse with any other director in the way me and Robert did it because I merely had complete faith and trust in him. And so much and then that nosotros didn't actually encounter each other's movie completed until three weeks before the film opened. It was as if we worked in little vacuums and cut our movies down, and so put them together and watched it all play, and then made a couple of little changes later that, and pretty much that was information technology."[viii] Rodriguez acted as cinematographer on Planet Terror, as he had done on some of his before films.[9]
Casting [edit]
Many of the cast members had previously worked with Rodriguez. Before appearing in Grindhouse, Marley Shelton had auditioned for The Kinesthesia, but Rodriguez chose not to cast her. She was eventually cast in the role of the Customer in the opening sequence of Sin Urban center.[7] Bruce Willis had appeared in Sin City.[10] Tom Savini had previously acted in From Dusk Till Dawn, Michael Parks reprises the role of Earl McGraw, a part the actor first portrayed in From Dusk Till Dawn, and Quentin Tarantino himself appears in a small role, every bit he also does in Death Proof. Harvey Weinstein did not want Rose McGowan to be cast in the film, after he allegedly sexually assaulted her years before and and so blacklisted her from being in whatsoever Miramax-related movies. Robert Rodriguez was dating McGowan and bandage her knowing that it would enrage Harvey (and also that Bob Weinstein would make Harvey get lost if he tried to spiral with his Dimension characterization releases), though Rodriguez later said that Harvey deliberately slashed the advertizing upkeep for the flick in a (successful) attempt to hurt it at the box office.[11] McGowan accused Rodriguez of exploiting her,[12] simply Rodriguez noted that she signed on to the script that was filmed, and that sequences where McGowan'due south grapheme was threatened with sexual attack were there to and then prepare up her attacking and killing predatory men.[13]
Special effects [edit]
The motion picture uses various unconventional techniques to make Planet Terror appear more like the films that were shown in grindhouse theaters in the 1970s. Throughout the characteristic and the Machete trailer, the film is made to wait damaged; v of the six 25,000 frame reels were edited with real motion-picture show damage, plug-ins, and stock footage.[xiv]
Planet Terror makes heavy utilize of digital furnishings throughout the moving-picture show, mostly for Cherry's fake leg. During post-production, the furnishings teams digitally removed McGowan'due south correct leg from the shots and replaced it with reckoner-generated props—first a table leg and so an attack burglarize. During shooting for these scenes, McGowan wore a special cast which restricted her leg movement to give her the correct movement.[14]
Editing [edit]
During pre-product, Tarantino and Rodriguez came up with the idea of inserting a "missing reel" into the film. "[Quentin] was about to evidence an Italian crime motion-picture show with Oliver Reed," Rodriguez recalls, "and he was saying, 'Oh, it's got a missing reel in it. But it's really interesting because after the missing reel, you don't know if he slept with a daughter or he didn't because she says he did and he says that he didn't. It leaves you guessing, and the movie all the same works with xx minutes gone out of information technology.' I thought, 'Oh, my God, that'south what we've got to practice. Nosotros've got to have a missing reel!' I'm going to use it in a way where it actually says 'missing reel' for 10 seconds, and then when nosotros come back, you're arriving in the third act. ... The tardily second acts in movies are usually the most predictable and the well-nigh boring, that's where the good guy actually turns out to be the bad guy, and the bad guy is really skillful, and the couple becomes friends. Of a sudden, though, in the third act, all bets are off and information technology'southward a whole new story anyway."[3]
Music [edit]
The music for Planet Terror was composed by Robert Rodriguez. Inspiration for his score came from John Carpenter, whose music was oft played on set.[fifteen] A cover version of the Expressionless Kennedys' "Too Drunkard to Fuck" performed by Nouvelle Vague was also featured in the film. A soundtrack album was released on April three, 2007, alongside the soundtrack for Decease Proof.
Theatrical release [edit]
Planet Terror was released in the United states of america and Canada alongside Expiry Proof as part of a double characteristic under the championship Grindhouse. Both films were released separately in extended versions internationally, approximately two months autonomously.[sixteen] The Dutch poster artwork for Planet Terror claimed that the film would characteristic "coming attractions" from Quentin Tarantino.[17] In the United Kingdom, Planet Terror was released in cinemas on November nine, 2007.[xviii] In reaction to the possibility of a split up in a foreign release, Tarantino stated, "Specially if they were dealing with non-English linguistic communication countries, they don't really have this tradition ... not but do they not really know what a grind firm is, they don't even accept the double feature tradition. So yous are kind of trying to teach u.s. something else."[19]
Culling versions [edit]
With the exception of Grindhouse and Single Theatrical versions of the moving picture, Rodriguez shot an alternative version where Tony Block did not accidentally shoot himself and survives throughout the film. The official theatrical version features a snippet of Tony on the embankment after the end credits and snippets of scenes from this version appears on Rodriguez'due south 10 Minute Film Schoolhouse characteristic on Planet Terror DVD. Rodriguez mentioned that this version is especially made for his son Rebel, and has shown Rebel the film with the happy ending rather than the version where he is expressionless. He also mentioned that Tony's expiry makes his "horror pic... more horrifying in his fashion".
Home release [edit]
Planet Terror was released on DVD on October xvi, 2007 in a two-disc special edition featuring the extended version of the film presented in a "flat" one.78:1 screen ratio (the theatrical version in Grindhouse was matted to two.35:1), sound commentary with Rodriguez, an audience reaction track, several backside the scenes featurettes about casting and special furnishings, and a "10 Minute Flick School" segment,[20] [21] in which Rodriguez confirmed that a box ready of the two films would be available soon, and that his 10 Minute Cooking School on Texas BBQ would announced on it.[22]
The film was released on Blu-ray on Dec 16, 2008. This version ports over the features from the DVD special edition, and also includes a "scratch-costless" version of the movie, which doesn't feature the aforementioned intentional "damaged" look to the print. Yet, all American home video releases of the film are the extended version only and do not include the theatrical cut.
In mid-Feb 2009, Germany also released a steel box collector's edition for Planet Terror which comes with the famous BBQ sauce recipe and two scratch-and-sniff discs of the pic which smell like the BBQ sauce. The pack also contains a limited edition Planet Terror claret pack.
The Grindhouse double feature was released on Blu-ray Disc in October 2010.
Critical reception [edit]
Planet Terror is rated 76% "fresh" on the Rotten Tomatoes review aggregate based on 27 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads, "A cool and hip grindhouse throwback, Planet Terror is an unpredictable zombie thrillride."[23]
See also [edit]
- List of films featuring fictional films
References [edit]
- ^ "Planet Terror (18)". British Board of Film Classification. September 11, 2007. Archived from the original on July 9, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
- ^ "Overseas Full Yearly Box Office – 2007". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August thirteen, 2015.
- ^ a b Cotton fiber, Mike (April 4, 2007). "House Party". Sorcerer Universe. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-04 .
- ^ "Online Exclusive: Horror Picture Directors Dish Virtually 'Grindhouse' Trailers". Rolling Stone.com. Archived from the original on April 7, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-04 .
- ^ Sciretta, Peter (March 12, 2007). "Grindhouse: Rodriguez to turn They Call Him Machete into Feature Length Picture". /flick. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Retrieved 2007-11-17 .
- ^ Morris, Clint (May 14, 2007). "Machete moving picture greenlit!". Moviehole. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2007-11-17 .
- ^ a b Spelling, Ian. "Medico in the GRINDHOUSE". Fangoria. Archived from the original on December 17, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-28 .
- ^ Hiscock, John (April 27, 2007). "Quentin Tarantino: I'm proud of my flop". London: Telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on November xiii, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-27 .
- ^ "Robert Rodriguez filmography". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 2007-04-07. Retrieved 2007-04-29 .
- ^ "Full cast and crew for 4 Rooms (1995)". Internet Flick Database. Archived from the original on 2007-05-24. Retrieved 2007-05-14 .
- ^ Bishop, Bryan (2017-ten-27). "Rose McGowan'southward role in Grindhouse was revenge on Harvey Weinstein". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2021-01-13 .
- ^ Sharf, Zack (2018-01-03). "Rose McGowan: Robert Rodriguez Filmed 'Planet Terror' Abuse Scene After She Told Him Virtually Harvey Weinstein Rape". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2021-01-thirteen .
- ^ Sharf, Zack (2018-01-04). "Robert Rodriguez Denies Playing Mind Games With Rose McGowan, Lists the Inaccuracies in Her 'Planet Terror' Story". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2021-01-xiii .
- ^ a b "VFX Earth". Grindhouse: Pistol-Packing VFX. Archived from the original on April 15, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2007.
- ^ Quint. "Updated! GRINDHOUSE news from Comic-Con! Snake Plissken to be Tarantino's villain! Plus more!!!". Ain't It Cool News. Archived from the original on 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2007-01-06 .
- ^ "Alles Over Quentin Tarantino" (in Dutch). 2007-03-18. Archived from the original on 2007-12-eleven. Retrieved 2007-03-30 .
- ^ "Dutch Planet Terror poster art". Archived from the original on 2007-05-21. Retrieved 2007-04-09 .
- ^ "Grindhouse Dismantled". 2007-04-30. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-10 .
- ^ "Rotten Tomatoes". Tarantino Chops Feature Length "Decease Proof" For "Grindhouse". Archived from the original on May 27, 2008. Retrieved Apr 18, 2007.
- ^ Gingold, Michael (July iii, 2007). "DVD Chopping Listing". Fangoria. Archived from the original on 2007-06-27. Retrieved 2007-07-05 .
- ^ Monfette, Christopher (July 26, 2007). "DVD SDCC: Grindhouse Gets Cut in Two". IGN. Archived from the original on 2007-10-22. Retrieved 2007-07-26 .
- ^ Confirmed past Robert Rodriguez on the ten Infinitesimal Film School characteristic on the Planet Terror DVD
- ^ Rotten Tomatoes. "PLANET TERROR (GRINDHOUSE PRESENTS: ROBERT RODRIGUEZ'South PLANET TERROR) (2007)". Flixster, Inc. Archived from the original on September 18, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
External links [edit]
- Planet Terror at IMDb
- Planet Terror at AllMovie
- Planet Terror at Rotten Tomatoes
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Terror
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