Growing up as a filmmaker I quickly became familiar with a man named Robert Rodriguez. He had become a Hollywood darling after making his debut feature El Mariachi for little over $7000. I became a fan after seeing his 3 million studio effort Desperado and since then I've been hooked on his off the wall filmmaking style and his approach to making said films, treating them as independents whilst still moving through the studio system.His first descent into horror came with Vampire/Gangster actioner From Dusk Till Dawn in 1996, then The Thing meets High school hierarchy in The Faculty followed 2 years later. But we didn't see him return to horror till his Grind-house submission nearly 10 years later, when he and Tarantino set out to make two short features with the idea of them playing back to back, old school, grind-house cinema style. Rodriguez segment was called 'Planet Terror'. It is awesome.
Cherry Darling a dancer at the local strip club, runs into her ex lover Wrey, meanwhile a canister of experimental gas explodes nearby spreading a virus and creating monsters called sickos out of anyone exposed to it. Cherry, Wrey and a gang of townsfolk band together in an effort to escape the carnage. But the world will never be the same again.
This film just has everything, from wonderful writing, to stunning cinematography, special effects, amazing action sequences that will leave your jaw firmly on the ground and some of the best damn characters ever to see the screen. It's just pitch perfect, I'm not a fan of zombie movies, but the monsters being referred to as 'sickos' fixes that problem for me. It has everything a horror fan could want and its effected in such away that it feels so genuinely close to the exploitation horrors of the 70's and 80's. I love it, I'm sure you will too.
See You Tomorrow.
MJ
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