Planet Terror

As 'Planet Terror' is an homage to the old, low budget Grindhouse films of the 70's and 80's, there are many deliberate errors by the filmmaker to give an authentic Grindhouse feel.

(at around 47 mins) When Dr.

William Block is about to inject Dakota Block with the yellow and red syringes, it is quite obvious that there are no needles in the syringes.

At the point when Dr.

William Block removes the protective cover off of the syringe with his teeth the missing needles is evident.

In the hospital scene where Wray is searching for Cherry, he finds her by seeing her right boot next to her hospital bed.

The infected tore off and took her right leg along the roadside, the leather boot was still on it.

In the scene where J.

is lying behind the counter in the Bone Shack assumed dead by Wray and Sheriff Hague, as J.

awakes up you hear him cycle a pump action shot gun.

is clearly holding a double barrel shotgun which has no cycling action.

"Double Barrels" have a break open action where the barrels tilt forward for loading and unloading of 2 rounds only.

At the end, when Cherry shoots the last infected in Mexico, the close-up shows she shot its head off down to the brain stem.

But a split second later, when they show it fall to the ground, the head is (mostly) intact.

Cherry's gun-leg does not appear to have a function to fire and change ammo, but the leg was designed in the company of a bio-mechanical engineer that clearly has capabilities beyond a rational reality, so the fact that she doesn't need to pull triggers or activate different weapons in the gun-leg is rational, given the context and scope of the movie, along with the obvious fact that the technical functions of the device were deliberately overlooked by the filmmaker(s) to keep the action pace of the "grindhouse" film.

When Cherry uses her leg to shoot the Military/Zombie men, in one shot, she shoots 6 of them and they all have huge cables running behind them to suggest the squibs on them going off.

When the uninfected are escaping to the helicopters, the walls have wheels at the bottom of them, this is noticeable when one of the actors pushes back against them.

When El Wray is going to Cherry's hospital room after the outbreak, the fire on the walls are all fire-bars emitting the flames on the bottom.

During the opening scene where Cherry is dancing there is a mirror in the background, in which, you can see the crew filming.

When Dakota Block is trying to start her car by using her mouth to insert the key into the ignition, the reflection in the metal ignition shows a hand holding the key, not a mouth.

In the jail cell scene where Wray (Freddy Rodriguez) asks J.

(Jeff Fahey) if he's alright, he holds his gun upside down while he fakes handing it to the guard, he then shoots the guard.

He is holding the gun by the frame.

The gun is a 1911 style pistol.

A 1911 style pistol can only be fired by squeezing the grip safety on the back of the pistols grip.

The gun would never have fired in this case.

However, not all 1911 style pistols have the grip safety.

More than one manufacturer has made a 1911 style pistol without the grip safety and there are plenty of people capable of pinning this feature on an original or replacing the frame for one without a grip safety.

When Tammy's Volvo breaks down, she parks it just in front of the sign that says 'Military base'.

In further shots, the car is quite far from it.

At the last gun fight scene in the movie, Cherry fires more than 3 grenade rounds without having to reload.

In fact, the M203 grenade launchers only have a 1 grenade capacity.

I must admit I was intrigued by the trailer, but nothing could have prepared me for this. It is a display of incessant, mindless blood curdling violence....

The problem with PLANET TERROR is that it's not terrible, and it's not that great either. Any number of real drive-in trash movies from the early 1970s are better than this film is.

Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino collaborate to make an action-horror double feature known as Grindhouse, where the movies are filmed to obtain the looks of old exploitation films from the 70s and 80s. With Quentin Tarantino's action feature 'Death Proof' dealing with a psychotic Hollywood stuntman preying a woman with his black Chevrolet Nova, this half directed by Robert Rodriguez pays a homage to vintage zombie horror B-movies with over-the-top action and blood and gore.

You know what will make a terrible movie? A parody, that will quickly turn into a parody on itself.

At an US military base, when appear convoy led by an official(Bruce Willis), a black-market dealer named Abby(Naven Andrews) accidentally releases an experimental and highly contagious gas. Those exposed suffer a complete transformation, turning into meat-eating zombies.

Planet Terror is an excellent,Action-Packed,Bloody and Gory Zombie Horror film that is filled with amazing direction,wonderful cast,a well-written script,great special make-up effects and fantastic score and is Robert Rodriguez at his best.Set in Texas,Planet Terror tells the story of Cherry Darling(Rose McGowan),a Go-Go Dancer and inspiring stand-up comedian who along with her ex-boyfriend El Wray(Freddy Rodriguez)have to lead a group of survivors when a toxic chemical is released into the air and turning people into Zombie-like creatures.

Without a doubt, this is the best movie I have ever seen. Having seen (and not enjoyed) Deathproof, I thought that it would be similar.

The tenor of this movie was a lot of not very effective splatter, unnatural dialogues, Tarantino not acting well, Bruce Willis' part too small, Zombies really weird looking, gun-legged girl appears too late and she seems to control the gun with her nerves which makes no sense in this context, but hey, she makes for a cool cover, doesn't she. I liked 'Death Proof' more even if it has some tediously long dialogues.

This movie is not a nod to old B movies rather it is pure pretentious garbage. It is so fitting that Quentin Tarantino is in it - his movies are also generally grossly over-rated crap.