Planet Terror (2007)

Baltimore City Paper

THE EXTRAS A splatteriffic and geektasmic tour through Planet Terror 's special effects begins with director Rodriguez's "10-Minute Film School," revealing how the filmmakers made Cherry's machine-gun leg look plausible, along with lots of demonstrations of digital, stunt, and makeup trickery.
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The Cinema Source

Planet Terror is an incredibly fun, spot-on homage of zombie movies with elements of softcore exploitation sleaze thrown into the mix.
Now, Robert Rodriguezs homage to exploitation is available in its full and uncut entirety on a 2 disc special edition DVD with Planet Terror.
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reel.com

That's the exuberantly trashy conceit of Planet Terror (2007), Robert Rodriguez 's tongue-in-cheek tribute to those grindhouse splatterfests that he and buddy Quentin Tarantino revere.
DVD FEATURES As Rodriguez shares in his voluble, easygoing commentary track on disc one, he mainly restored transitions to Planet Terror Planet Terror , particularly with regard to the special effects magic turning McGowan's leg into a machine gun, check out the "10-Minute Film School with Robert Rodriguez" segment on disc t ... Full Review

viewlondon.co.uk

Planet Terror is a hugely entertaining zombie exploitation thriller that delivers laughs, gore, terrific characters and more zombie ass-kicking than you could possibly hope for.
The Good Planet Terror is terrific fun from beginning to end.
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Comingsoon.net

While Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" is so deliberately bad that it's almost good, Tarantino knocks one out of the park with a brilliant action-thriller that stands up on its own merit.
McGowan's the real star of "Planet Terror", keeping up with him even after losing a leg to the flesh-eating mutations, replacing it first with a two-by-four and then with a sexy machine gun/rocket launcher.
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A deliberate guilty pleasure

AntoNEO@imdb | 2007-10-20

While Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof seems to be a much more authentic representation of 1970s grindhouse pictures, Robert Rodriguez' Planet Terror is more of a loving caricature of 1980s zombie splatter films. Nothing in the film is played straight, and... Read more at imdb.com

Total Cult

Claudio Carvalho@imdb | 2008-04-02

In Texas, the gang leaded by the black market dealer Abby (Naveen Andrews) faces a group of renegade militaries leaded by Captain Muldoon (Bruce Willis) in an abandoned military base. During their shootout, Abby shoots a recipient of biological weapon,... Read more at imdb.com

Better than Tarantino's half...

FilmFlaneur@imdb | 2008-01-18

Rodriguez's half of the original 'grindhouse' double bill , which consisted of his TERROR PLANET with Tarantino's DEATH PROOF. Likely audience reactions led to the two titles being separated and issued apart. As a homage to the drive-in tradition and... Read more at imdb.com

"I want to eat your brains... and gain your knowledge."

Filmjack3@imdb | 2008-03-08

Planet Terror, before becoming it's own movie-animal of sorts as a stand-alone feature released in most parts of the world (and on DVD), was a slightly shorter, near-perfect first part of a double-bill of the Rodriguez/Tarantino double-feature Grindhouse. Not to... Read more at imdb.com

Fun, fast and furious homage to the old b-movie schlock movies

Joe@imdb | 2007-11-11

For some reason the original double feature movie of Grindhouse combining Planet Terror with Tarantino's effort was never released in the UK! Regardless, i was still curious to watch both efforts, and the first of which I've had the chance... Read more at imdb.com

PLANET TERROR: DVD

It's RIP for B Movies - but only as in Rodriguez International Pictures, the specialist arm of Robert Rodriguez, filmmaker from the low budget side of town, the multi-skilled writer/director/cinematographer/editor/SFX whiz who pays homage to those cheap and gory movies... ... Full Article

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Rose McGowan stars as the go-go dancer leading a fightback against the flesh-eating terror stalking a small town, and gets to wear the coolest prosthetic leg ever. ... Full Article

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