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By Clark Collis
Clark Collis
Clark Collis is a senior writer for EW

With killer cars and crazy prosthetic legs, Grindhouse, a pair of pictures from directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, is one of next year's most-anticipated collaborations. Due out in April, the two movies, each a blood-and-guts tribute to '70s exploitation flicks, will be separated by sensational trailers for fake B movies. Below, we've got the goods on the real films.

THE VEHICLE
''It's a slasher movie with a car instead of a knife,'' says Rodriguez of Tarantino's Death Proof, which stars Kurt Russell as a psychotic stuntman. ''We did that poster as a silk screen. We wanted to imply an alternate film universe.''

THE GUN
In Rodriguez's zombie-esque feature Planet Terror, Rose McGowan's go-go dancer-turned-amputee sports a unique fake limb. The poster's aged look, Rodriguez says, was achieved by the high-tech means of ''dragging it around a parking lot.''

THE NEEDLE
The director is tight-lipped about why actress Marley Shelton is holding a hypodermic needle in another Terror poster. But he's more verbose on the subject of Grindhouse sequels: ''Yeah, there may be a couple. One might be kung fu. One sexploitation. They're a blast to make!''


Posted Aug 04, 2006 | Published in issue #890 Aug 11, 2006 | Order Article Reprints