DEATH PROOF (2007) 🚘 First Time Watching 🎬 Movie Reaction

[@eZTarg8mk2]

The weird glitchy cuts and editing is meant to give the experience of seeing a "grindhouse" movie...low end cinemas, b-movies from the late 60s and 70s that often had damage to the reels, with weird missing sections as they'd just tape the film back together if a section got damaged and had to be cut out. The weirdly abrupt ending is also a common feature in low budget movies from that era. The stories were often very over the top and violent, but just very weirdly executed, though there are some very fun grindhouse films from that time. This film was meant to be watched back to back with Planet Terror (directed by Robert Rodriguez), and had fake trailers in between from other horror and indy directors, with the same grainy 70s vibe. So it was a little less wtf is going on with this film style???

[@polyglot12]

And the random faces with color bars at the end are what was called "China Girl" which were to calibrate color and balance before film has a more universal standard.

[@edpublic]

@@eZTarg8mk2 Dawn should really do'a B-Movie Night! it'd be'a blast and hella'funny🌎

[@commonstragedy]

"Don't hang your feet out the window, you'll get them chopped off." Dawn had no idea how prophetic her words were!

[@mcdemuth]

The girls in the end credits are called "China Girls", and were local "models" working for the film companies that made the movies. They were included in a few frames at the very begging of classic film media, which were called "leaders" and they were fed into projectors and wrapped around the spools. They were used to help theaters calibrate their color settings so the movies would display their colors correctly for the audiences. Right after they were seen, there would be a short countdown to indicate where the start of the movie actually was. Most audiences never saw the film leaders, just the projectionists.

[@Lueluekopter]

Zoe (the NZ girl from the second half) is played by Zoe Bell, who was the stunt double for Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill movies. Tarantino wanted to give her a "real" role.

[@HappyHarryHardon]

I’ve always thought it would have been fun to see Uma as the stunt woman for Zoe just for one obvious quick cut.

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

Well to be real it was Mostly to get a really good coverage of the stunts because you can show the face. An actor doing the stunt does pull you in, then again she does not do that solid of a job with actual acting (it's just not what she does). So it can then again be even kinda distracting because it is dialoque heavy. I'm not saying she butchered the role, but it does show thru that she is not an actor. It can be given a pass for the bigger concept for the double-feature and the genre gone for, so it does not need to be so clean. Still especially when you put someone who does not really act next to Rosarie Dawson, it shows. It could've also been easier to play it off if this would have gone more Planet Terror route of just going for it while having the card to do every ridiculous idea you have.

[@HappyHarryHardon]

@@aleksisuuronen5969 you really typed all that

[@SilentBob731]

@@aleksisuuronen5969 Did you have a brain tumour for breakfast?

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

@@HappyHarryHardon yes and more. All what? That's nothing to type out..

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The second set of girls aren't meant to be realistic. They're Nemesis. They're the perfect answer to Mike's misogyny, and his cruel, cowardly violence. They are fearless, fun-loving, and vengeful when disrespected. And that's hot when it's believable, which it is because Tarantino chose women who actually seem that way (Zoe is an actual stunt woman).

[@cutekittens228]

Not only is Zoe Bell an actual stunt woman but she's also a real life martial artist, hence the kick at the end, she's a real badass in angel of death too.

[@NoTechThieve]

I don't know about not being realiatic. The second set of girls sound exactly like my sister talking to her friends when they were in high school and college. Except it was boxing and skateboarding instead of cars and movies.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

@@cutekittens228 Rosario Dawson delivers the kick at the end. Not a stunt woman herself, but totally works in this movie.

[@cutekittens228]

@@dudermcdudeface3674 Zoe does a kick also, and it is very close to the end.

[@elliotthedissident6077]

Everyone in this was an awful person

[@gerardcote8391]

Note Zoe Bell as Herself.... she is a Stunt woman and Actress from New Zealand .... she did the stunt work for Lucy Lawless in Xena: warrior, Uma Thurmond in Kill Bill and Cate Blanchette in Thor : Ragnarock. As well as her own Stunts in this film..... yes that was her on the hood of the car in those stunt scenes.

[@SilentBob731]

She's awesome.

[@jasonavery]

I don’t care what anyone says. This is a great film and people are too hard on it. I love the juxtaposition of the first half and the second half. I think the first half is real life, and the second half is one of his films. Notice the first half is gritty, and they actually call him Stuntman Mike. I think he actually kills people in real life. Notice the second half it’s HD, film quality improves, and they never call him Stuntman Mike. He’s just a random villain. The girls do stunts and it’s more cinematic like a car chase.

[@cuoresportivo155]

The only thing that's a bit weird for me is stuntman mike screeching at the end

[@innercircle341]

I love it

[@nittyblahblah8939]

Typically those who don't like, or, don't really "get" this movie are the same folk who didn't grow up in between the 70s/90s. Just like we (gen X) don't "get" the interests of folk who grew up post 2010-ish. If you didn't grow up like Tarantino and his original fans with the og b-flicks/series, "blaxploitation" films, kung-fu flicks ("Five Elements Ninjas", 1982, my favorite), and all the other nonsense in between (look up RDJ's father's films, for example) then you probably won't get into this film. At least, not with the nostalgic understanding of where it comes from. The "Kill Bill" series does a better job for fans from the nostalgic understanding aspect, and for those who like them for being good films regardless/without the nostalgic background understanding. I'm not big on this flick("Death Proof"), but that's more to the storyline of it. The visual aspect, f'ing cool.

[@johnsensebe3153]

Nobody does revenge fantasy like Tarantino.

[@chriswilletts3621]

​@@cuoresportivo155Haha because he's a wimp. And the veil of his persona and protection of his car is worthless.

[@chardtomp]

Dead soldiers is an old-time bar slang for empty bottles. Also, the Texas Ranger and his son are father and son in real life.

[@maximillianosaben]

They are also characters in Tarantino's, Kill BIll. Plus the Texas Ranger is obviously in Planet Terror too, but the connections between that and Death Proof are obvious if you watch Grindhouse.

[@barstro]

There were also in From Dusk til Dawn.

[@maximillianosaben]

@@barstro - The son wasn’t in From Dusk Till Dawn, but Michael Parks indeed was.

[@krazystring]

As the only man in an office full of women, who forget your there, yes they talk exactly like that. I know more crap about these women then anyone should ever know

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

I get really well along with women and it kinda depends a bit ofcourse on who it is, but yes most do talk in detail about A Lot of things and that's a definite topic in most cases (like.. the women might not talk the same to me, but if are as open to me as they are then it's like ten folds when just within female friends). I have also Known for 100% when I have been with someone and they have spoken about something that me and her did, because I'm anyway kinda intuitive and everytime I know because I'm watched by them in a bit of differend way and there might be some sly remarks that I do catch onto immidiatelly even if it's really suddle 😅 It also have happened aa lot with couple of gf's. Them being the ones who would also tell me in detail Some stories about some of their friends (which at that point just seems fair 😂).

[@emilsitka9537]

You need to watch Planet Terror.

[@Sam-ht8xz]

more fun than DP

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

I was saying this in Kill Bill vol.2 comments. You kiiinda, not quite but kinda need to know the whole concept and what is the bigger picture is before watching this. All the fake trailers made and such n such. The exploitation movie theme of the double-feature, why there is so called missing film and it's just so called patched together (funny enough, I Just went watch Holocaust 2000 with this woman and had to explain what's propably happening since the movie went 3 times black and propably jumped just a bit 😅 I'm pretty sure they do still use film-projector there since they show a lot of old movies and to the roll was propably patched with some black out transition so people kinda get that ok, like a scene is missing. Clearly jumped but not that it mattered to make confusing). QT himself thinks this is his weakest movie, I'm kinda on the fence with 8. Partly because I kinda hoped it would have more so an aspect of giving suddle clues on who in the bar is the wildcard. Yeah it's on me for having assumptions, but then again, I just also don't think a dialoque heavy period piece is his strong-suit when there is no big larger plot. It does go a lot better in the latter half tho. I still kinda do put Death Proof over Hatefull for all of the irl stunts and some scenes that are just Really good.. as is Kurt. Then so many small details like Eli Roth and the Planet Terror hospital, Michael Parks as the cop from Dusk and Kill Bill etc.

[@markmccollough1017]

100% I really liked Death Proof, but liked Planet Terror even more. I find it the tiniest bit annoying the number of people I've talked to who saw Death Proof that never saw, and at times have never even heard of Planet Terror, despite the two movies being in the same double feature and Death Proof being the second movie of the double feature originally. I get it now, as the movies are mostly only found as separate movies but when I first saw them it was as the two movies back to back in the same 3 hourish video with an intermission sequence between the two movies.

[@kingspanky2794]

That one is my favorite 👍

[@megafan2000]

​@@markmccollough1017to this day i think Grindhouse is the best experience I've ever had at a movie theater. Opening night in NYC, theater was maybe only 3/4 full but we all knew this was something different to be experienced. I still haven't seen either standalone movie, just Grindhouse.

[@subliminallime4321]

Lee fell in love at first sight with Jasper, quit the movie business & they're now happily married with 5 kids, all boys. He builds and drives monster trucks for a living & she designs t-shirts of the truck to sell at the monster truck rallies.

[@cfytcf]

I mean, Jasper was in Kill Bill Vol. 1 - climbing on top of Uma Thurman... so we know how he ended up.

[@johnsensebe3153]

You should watch _Duel._ It was Steven Spielberg's first film and parts of this kind of give me _Duel_ vibes.

[@quixote6942]

THE SHERIFF and son were the same Characters played in Kill Bill. In the 70's "Splatter movies, they used the same characters and Actors from movie to movie. And Zoe Bell ("The Cat") is an actual Stuntwoman in real life! She was Uma's Stunt Double in Kill Bill.

[@markhunter3263]

1:47 “You can’t have your feet out the window they’re gonna get chopped off.” Oh, the foreshadowing.

[@MrPunkd113]

I am so happy that these KZbin people are not moviemakers.

[@scottgraves8503]

Dawn: “What did I just watch?!?!!?” Me: What you’ve just had the privilege to Witness, is a movie which features, What is arguably, THEEE Most Dangerous Car Stunt EVER Put on Film!! Zoe Bell is the Best StuntWoman in Hollywood. And, that’s Really her on the Hood of this car. They are Really driving those cars at that speed and banging them into each other while Zoe is actually hanging on to the car, only a foot or so from the 60 mile per hour pavement,by nothing more than the friction between her hand and the paint job of the Hood of the car.

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

This is a very underrated gem by Tarantino. The music, cinematography, casting, scenes... specially Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike.

[@reservoirdude92]

Tarantino's music taste is immaculate. Staggolee is suuuuch a great track.

[@norwegianblue2017]

You're right about how a group of girls don't really talk like that. They are talking like Tarantino. But that is kind of true in all his films. It's okay because it is so damned entertaining. Plus, I can write it off a bit in this movie because it is supposed to be a 1970s grindhouse film, which would actually put in salacious dialogue (written by men) in those movies.

[@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv]

No, they are talking like girls in grindhouse exploitation films. Women in Tarantino films are invariably rich in depth and diction.

[@norwegianblue2017]

@@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv I guess you didn't read my whole post. Specifically "Plus, I can write it off a bit in this movie because it is supposed to be a 1970s grindhouse film, which would actually put in salacious dialogue (written by men) in those movies."

[@film-maniac]

You're wrong. Girls did talk like that. Overheard plenty, especially when I worked in a bar. Tarantinos words are accurate...ESPECIALLY back then. Remember, he didn't grow up in today's society...he knows.

[@chardtomp]

@@film-maniac I concur. I'm 61 and I've heard plenty of girls talk like that. It was pretty damn common back in the 80s when people had actual face to face conversations instead of texting and living their lives entirely online.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

@@film-maniacYeah, I’ve worked in bars, cafes & restaurants. I’ve also been friends with a lot of women & have been shocked on quite a few occasions at the stuff they’ve said. It definitely opened my eyes🤣

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

Dawn: "These women are all in their late 30s!" The actresses were between 27 and 33, really. But I suspect the characters were meant to be a bit younger, too. 😅

[@richieb7692]

You are one of the Very Few people to react to this film. Zoe Bell is just Amazing.. The special effects in the car crash scenes are ALL Practical effects...No CGI. Same with the car chase.. Zoe Was out on the front of the car, at those speeds..hanging off the front. No security wires, sped up film, or any effects at all...

[@21stcenturycaveman91]

Yes the chase scene is brilliant, love those big engine muscle cars roaring and the fact someone was really holding on to the front of the car while being rammed trying not to fly off!!!

[@niteowlsongs]

Best Tarantino ever. When this was in the theatres as a double feature with PLANET TERROR, the audience was laughing, dry heaving and walking out. 😂❤

[@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv]

The boring bits are deliberate. The film is a pastiche of the kind of film that kids would pay to see every week just so they could make out with their young crushes. Often the posters for these kinds of films were the only real artistic element. Tarantino was a fan of the rawness of some of the exploitation storytelling and wanted to emulate that in a tribute to the movement.

[@DavidAntrobus]

"Laisse tomber les filles," originally recorded by France Gall, is the cool sixties song in the credits. It means "leave the girls alone," a sentiment that Stuntman Mike really should have listened to. It's yet another perfect song placement by Tarantino whose use of music is second to none.

[@reservoirdude92]

April March is so underrated. Attention Cherie is a great track by her.

[@DavidAntrobus]

@@reservoirdude92 Agreed!

[@ThomasStClair-zr2lb]

The style of movie makes a little more sense with how it was shown in theaters. It was part of a double feature called Grindhouse that included a whole other movie and fake movie trailers by guest directors that was meant to pay homage to the 1970s style cheap movie theaters that would show low budget movies. I'd suggest checking the whole thing out some day.

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Dawn Marie, this film was released with another called 'Planet Terror' under the title of 'Grindhouse' which a type of low budget high sex and violence B-Movies popular in the late '60s and early '70s particularly in America, this film was Quentin Tarantino's homage to those kinds of films. 'Planet Terror' was directed by Robert Rodriguez and was a Horror/Comedy, both that and 'Death Proof' were both initially released as a combined package called 'Grindhouse'.

[@TRK-up2zw]

Texas Ranger Earl McGraw same guy in "Planet Terror," "Kill Bill" and "From Dusk Till Dawn."

[@chardtomp]

Texas Ranger Earl McGraw. The Texas Rangers are the state police of Texas. That is to say, their officers have jurisdiction over the entire state. Like most state police organizations, they're pretty selective about who they take. That's why Earl is so sharp.

[@TRK-up2zw]

@@chardtomp Thanks, a different site named him as sherrif. But, yes, the Texas Rangers are true badasses. While the baseball team, aside from last year, is known by many as the Arlington Mall Cops. Cos they're phonies from DC.

[@josephamesdacey6442]

I remember watching this and planet terror in the theater and you should really find the fake trailers he made to get that grindhouse vibe

[@BudhagRizzo]

The woman doing the car hood stunt is Zoe Bell, stunt woman extraordinaire. She started her career doubling for Lucy Lawless in "Xena: Warrior Princess".

[@michaelhandy9758]

Context is so important with this movie.

[@Dollywood623]

I'm sure others are going to be giving u some great trivia. So I will just say I agree about the conversations the female actresses had, they sucked. Please remember it was a man (Tarantino) that wrote the script, not a woman. Written, produced, directed and shot by him. That said I actually love this movie and am familiar with most of the actresses. The second set of female characters were all in show business in one aspect or another in the movie. Stylist, model, stunt women....always entertained by ur reviews Love them 💙

[@LordShockadelic]

This was meant to be seen as the second feature film in a double feature called "Grindhouse", along with a movie by Robert Rodriguez called "Planet Terror". It was a full 3hr program with fake exploitation trailers and bumpers meant to emulate what an exploitation movie double feature from the 1970s would look like. That's why there's fabricated film damage and jump cuts. It's supposed to make the film look like it was run through a projector dozens of times by inexperienced projectionists. Pretentious (even more so by QT), but undeniably fun.

[@ItDoesntMatterReally]

What's funny is that most of those fake trailers came to fruition. Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun, and Thanksgiving have been made. Still waiting for "Don't" and "Werewolf Women of the SS".

[@mblackwl]

So, Italian Vogue...? Magazines have different editions depending on which country they are published in. A German copy of, say, GQ, will have different articles than the UK version. The Italian version of Vogue is generally considered to be the most high fashion minded of the editions. (As opposed to us 'Mercians who will go "Oh, I like them sweatpants") A copy showing up in rural TN is like finding great Mexican food in Reykjavík. Oh, and the random photos at the end? They're called Shirley Cards. In the early days of film processing, to make sure that everything came out properly, the processing team would insert these photos into the film and the recipient would then compare them to a properly processed copy of that image. So, for example, if there's a photo of a girl in a yellow shirt with green stripes and red hair, you can compare the copy in the film to a copy that you know is good to make sure that the brightness and contrast are correct. But these were generally stuck at the end of a film's reel so you only saw them if you literally ran the film reel to the end. By sticking them in the credits, QT was implying that, since this was a grindhouse film, the projectionist did a half assed job splicing the film together, but he did so in a way that would not actually ever been seen in a film in the era.

[@klinewalker7301]

The guy who's selling the challenger is the same guy in Kill Bill who the bride bite his lip before killing him after trying to rape her.

[@benjaminjones9981]

Often overlooked bit of early Tarantino writing/directing, "Four Rooms" (1995) Worth a watch!

[@rendog896]

But the only one he directly was the last scene with Bruce Willis! It was a take on an Alfred Hitchcock short film with the zipo lighter. But yes underrated film

[@rendog896]

Directed*

[@21stcenturycaveman91]

Yes I liked this one too... another 'flop' for many, but still worth watching and an enjoyable movie!

[@lalou4617]

Zoey the blond Kiwi was Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill. She's the one who did the fight.

[@norwegianblue2017]

I love the deliberately bad B-movie jump cuts in this film. During the final car chase, within a few seconds, you see the blood on the windshield go from obviously paint, to not there at all, to a reddish watery liquid.

[@brianknight7897]

The Miles to go before you sleep is from a famous poem, but I know it from Charles Bronson's movie Telephon with Donald Pleasance.

[@Lehnert]

This movie alongside Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a part of a double feature called Grindhouse. Now grindhouse is a name given to certain type of movie theaters that mainly showed low-budget horror or exploitation films for adults. Those theaters declined and eventually disappeared due to the growing popularity of VHS and cable movie channels. The Grindhouse duology is a love letter to those kind of cinemas and movies. That's why the quality looks like that, colors are sometimes missing or there are weird cuts and looses of frames. It's what Tarantino does. Many of his movies are love letters to something cinema related. Kill Bill was a love letter to martial art movies. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a love letter to Hollywood and making movies in general. Jackie Brown was a love letter to blaxploitation movies. And so on. Tarantino didn't go to a film school, he went to films.

[@zaftra]

'They look a lot like my feet' - she knows what she's saying to a certain audiance.

[@HonRevPTB]

Yeah she just needs to post a picture!!!!!!!

[@boomercoco1]

With French tips 😢

[@zaftra]

@@HonRevPTB sadly, it will never happen. I think a lot of what she says is very much toung in cheek

[@HonRevPTB]

@@zaftra It would be like dying and going to paradise if she did though wouldn't it??? LOL 🤣😆🤣

[@NickDanger-k2x]

Kurt Russell in "Captain Ron" ... Good Comedy

[@brianknight7897]

The second half of this movie is supposed to be in Lebanon, TN. Actually filmed just south of Santa Maria and near Solvang, CA. Beautiful backroad area. The background terrain is a giveaway.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Now that you mention it, it definitely looks like the area around Solvang.

[@edpublic]

18:30,,,,"Yaaayyy We're Gonna Get Some Murdering"-Dawn,,,,😂🎉

[@malarkey2217]

You can't have your feet out the window, they're gonna get chopped off! Hohahahaha!

[@toddjones1480]

My thoughts exactly.

[@boristurovskiy351]

I've been sitting through this movie thinking, oh well, Tarantino has lost his touch. And then in the final 10 minutes I was like WOW WOW WOW:) Seriously underrated movie.

[@MrRondonmon]

It's a 70s Drive in B Film homage/tribute, that's why all the grainy motions were in the film, chicks, murder/slasher movies and powerful cars

[@andyc66612]

“You’re going to have to start getting scared……..immediately.”

[@CliffordLake]

Tarantino's ode to '70's car movies.

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

Jungle Julia actress it´s Sidney Tamiia Poitier; daughter of the legendary actor Sidney Poitier.

[@jasontaverner391]

The whole style of this film was supposed to replicate very low-budget American "grindhouse" movies of the late '60s to mid '70s. They were the type of movies that were grouped together when you went to an Outdoor theater. Grindhouse directors and producers often used the same actors, playing the same basic characters in overlapping movies.

[@tonyponchopeters]

Isn't she the funniest @13:40 saying "I never talk about my Sexuals" 😂

[@theylied1776]

Fun Facts: The woman in the Pink tee shirt is Zoe Bell. She is one of the best stunt performers in movies and television. And she has been in every Tarantino movie since Kill Bill. Also, if you are observant, in every Quentin Tarantino movie since Pulp Fiction he tries to slip in a reference to the State of Tennessee. That is why this movie was shot in Tennessee. He is actually from Tennessee but grew up in California.

[@ModMyMind]

Grindhouse is a 2007 American film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Presented as a double feature, it combines Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles.

[@johnbuchanon7717]

We did a lot of stupid stuff in cars in the 70s. There was way more drunk driving then. The cars were built like tanks but seat belts weren't required until much later. I recall a famous country music star, Barbara Mandrell nearly died in a car crash on 9/11/84. I can't remember if she was wearing her seat belt but she became a very vocal advocate for them and that kick started a lot of media attention then legislation, even in the South, which was very resistant to comprehensive rules like that. The insurance companies did the rest of the work. My wife definitely used to hang her feet out like that and on the dash. God protects fools...thankfully. Dawn, please react to the other half of the double feature, 'Planet Terror'; great reaction!

[@jamesodonnell3636]

Also, DM, I think you missed the part where Stuntman Mike's motivation was spelled out by the Sheriff. Earl theorizes, correctly we are to assume, that killing women with his car is "the only way (Stuntman Mike) can shoot his goo." In other words, he's impotent, and this is how he gets off, feels virile, and "connects" with women. If I were in his place, I would've settled for the lap dance.

[@famine4h477]

Planet Terror first, then Death Proof. That's the full-length Grindhouse film.

[@bustercherry8734]

21:42 "What if she accidentally let's go?" Then she accidentally dies.

[@doom6699]

Now watch Planet Terror!

[@CBGB_1977]

The Grindhouse film look is so fun! Those film cuts, film scratches and skips are so well done. This movie is my favorite QT film. Not only is the soundtrack killer but the revenge story is sooo sweet! “Revenge is a dinner best served cold!” 🥶- Black Momba (The Bride, Beatrix Kiddo,Mom)

[@ryanh603]

The Texas Rangers Earl McGraw and son Edgar McGraw are played by real life father/son actors Michael and James Parks who appear in other Tarantino/Rodriquez films. Michael as Earl McGraw also played Earl in From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill (also as Esteban Vihaio), and as one of the slave holders in Django Unchained. James Parks as Edgar was also in Kill Bill and Machete. He was also in Django Unchained as a tracker, and in The Hateful Eight as O.B. Jackson.

[@garycollins7750]

Zoe Bell and Kurt Russell played a husband/wife stunt team in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

[@ramonalfaro3252]

I grew up in Los Angeles and loved watching B-Movies on a show called MOVIES TIL DAWN. From Midnight to around 5am on Fri/Sat Back in the day TV went off the air Sun/Thur after midnight until morning newscast. Not enough people watching for advertiser to pay for night operation. On weekends there were enough night owls watching and they could afford to play low-cost, low-budget GRINDHOUSE films. Super low budget films of all sorts of genres Teen Coming of Age films, Horror, Karate/Martial Arts, Aliens, Outlaw Biker Gangs both Male & Female, Rebellious Teens, Teen Prostitute, Racing of all sorts (Car, Motorcycle, Skateboard, etc.), Surfer, and California Summer were just some of the genres. Most of these fell into the so bad they are good category. Scripts were incoherent and would wander off into other genres or introduce random ass "colorful" side characters, who can randomly disappear. Props were terrible (One production company made an alien out of the body of a gorilla suit with a "reptile" head, because it was on discount) & you could periodically see the actor in the suit because of the mismatched head. Acting was horrible ( We won't get into specifics), but it was bad. Often, they would get some washed up actor or a famous sports figure to act in a couple of scenes as a FEATURED ACTOR to give it street cred. Super Un-PC borderline and not so borderline behavior and scenarios. Terrible Editing like in this movie, but on accident, And, of course, Terrible directing. Death Proof is soaked in GRINDHOUSE references & tropes. Somehow, Quinten manages to take all this trash and turn it into an Arthouse Film!!! Quinten Grew up in LA too & we're about the same age, I think he must have been a big fan of MOVIES TIL DAWN too. It's like he lives inside my childhood head.

[@youellswinney1964]

I'll always prefer the theatrical cut of this where you get all of that buildup to the dance, but suddenly it says "scene missing."

[@albertsmith9315]

So weird... two people I subscribe to both do Death Proof within minutes of each other.

[@theylied1776]

This movie is supposed to be shot in the style of the 1960s and 1970s low-budget GrindHouse Movie Genre. It was a style that was popular for Midnight Movies and Drive-In Theaters in the United States. Movies like the original Gone In 60 Seconds, I Spit On Your Grave, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Faster PussyCat Kill, Kill, and Vanishing Point.

[@kreuz7sieben]

You can say what you want about this movie, it has one of the best car chase scenes in movie history ❤ Are we going to get *Planet Terror* aswell? Tis the season 😅

[@kbrewski1]

This was an intentional spoof/tribute to Drive-In Chick exploitation movies of the 60s and 70s where girls got revenge on guys. Everything about the movie was like a B movie reproduction of a silly violent car chase movie you'd see in an American Drive In movie. From the defects and glitches in the film to the bare bones plot, to the dirty girl talk etc. It was all a PARODY/A SPOOF. Just like JACKIE BROWN was a Spoof/Tribute to Blaxploitation films of the 70s. It helps to read up a little on what you are watching so you get some idea.

[@Rofyle-e4v]

Yes, the film scratches and bad editing are intentional. This movie is Tarantino's love tribute to "grind house" cinema; the name for the quick and cheaply made exploitation films that he grew up watching as a teen.

[@1htsht4u]

Kids these days have no relationship to the car culture of the '70s. She would need to watch Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry and Smokey and the Bandit just to get close to an idea of what it was like and then she would still not really understand. This is an homage to all the car movies of that time.

[@QuietDriver97]

I remember watching the Planet Terror/Death Proof double feature on IFC almost 15 years ago now. IFC used to be a lot more raw back then so all of Planet Terror's gore made it to my 10 year old eyes. For some reason that movie hits the stomach differently.

[@PeterPalmiotti]

Originally this 'movie' was only part of a movie called Grindhouse. 2 movies in one, with fake trailers. The other movie was called Planet Terror by director Robert Rodriguez. Really you should see it in its original form. Both films are a take on an by gone era.

[@kathyk5319]

My favorite Tarantino film. The lap dance scene is spectacular.

[@Retrostar619]

"Aww those bonnie cows"

[@hbron112]

As kids we used to watch movies like this at the drive-in and make out! What a date.

[@stephencoan79]

Zoë Bell is a badass. She was Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill.

[@Jumpman67]

I remember seeing this in the theater. It was a cut down version along with planet terror that also had fake trailers and an intermission.

[@o0pinkdino0o]

The pictures at the end were all of Stuntman Mike's victims. Blonde Australian Zoe Bell is the stuntwoman that doubled Uma Thurman in Kill Bill and also appears in Hateful Eight. I really recommend the companion piece to this movie - Planet Terror from Quentin's best mate Robert Rodriguez which is a silly, campy, bloody zombie movie.

[@dlschgo]

This is Tarantino's "homage" to low budget movies shown three at a time in drive-ins or $1 urban run down theaters. Half the drive-in crowd is there to make out with their girlfriends and the other half are cars full of teens with two cases of beer in the trunk (boot). Often the movies have missing pieces, lost due to film damage in the projector. Or they were two unfinished movies stitched together , bought cheap by some production company. The only "musts" were hot women, fast cars, and assorted violence and stupid behavior.

[@cryogenixoldskool5803]

Been waiting for you to do this one, this is the Tarantino film I find myself re-watching the most

[@lucywillis4174]

The end credits song 'chick habit' is also the opening song of the movie 'but, im a cheerleader.' A late 90's queer teen comedy that has just hit it's cult streak. Definitely worth a watch...

[@rabbiphilio]

Love this film. A guilty pleasure. I agree. A friend doesn’t put another friend on the spot, much less through the radio broadcast. I see where Jungle Julia got her name with her demeanour and now she’s the one at the bottom of that jungle food chain, her friends too.

[@chyna5913]

Immediately clicked out the vid i was watching to watch this !

[@didonna1974]

Me too!

[@saagisharon8595]

11:22 being young while he's much older 26:34 just random 70's chicks

[@StoneKendricks]

That whistling theme is from Kill Bill, but it's originally from Twisted Nerve (1968).

[@jockster247]

Nice to see Eli Roth making a cameo in the bar.

[@sweiland75]

Italian Vogue. Obviously the Italian version of Vogue magazine.

[@CBGB_1977]

I guess my friends and I are weird. We used to talk about all kinds of stuff. Random weird conversations are hilarious. We can be stupid but, oh, it’s so much fun! 😜😂

[@hinesmaster99]

Zoe Bell ❤

[@xrusted]

Who are the other pictures of? Most likely Stuntman Mike's other victims. Thankyou for doing a reaction to one of my fave films! Much respect

[@Paul77ozee]

With all the feet hanging around, you still question if this is a Tarantino film.

[@MrChiddler]

Kiwi stuntwoman Zoe Bell is such good friends with Tarantino that she got him over to Auckland for the NZ premier of ‘Django Unchained’. Then he spent a week on holiday on Waiheke an island, where she is from.

[@francismcknight724]

The pictures during the closing credits came from a copy of Italian Vogue magazine, which is mentioned in the movie

[@PalimpsestProd]

Apparently you missed that they were all stunt women? That's why they weren't scared. BTW this part or a larger movie "Grindhouse" the other 1/2 is Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez.

[@nittyblahblah8939]

"Laisse tomber les filles" by France Gall.

[@gerardcote8391]

Yeah this and Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez) were released together as "Grindhouse".... Saw both didn't like either but did enjoy the car chase at the end, very well filmed... absolute best part of the film. One of the best car chase scenes ever filmed right up there with the Mad Max films car chases, and the Blues Brothers and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[@texwebb]

This was a collaboration with Rodriquez. You have opened a door. please watch Desperado with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. Tarantino has a great cameo. Brfore you watch Dusk till Dawn.. u will see campyness at its finest

[@campusmartius8450]

Dawn has seen and reacted to Dusk til Dawn and even she was turned on by Salma.

[@Keithjmcc]

You watched a movie in the Quentin Tarantino universe. The same universe that has pulp fiction. This movie would be playing at the theater. I learned that today.

[@BouillaBased]

The whistled tune you heard (again) here was also in Kill Bill. But it's originally from the 1968 film Twisted Nerve.

[@FilmBuff54]

That tune was composed by Bernard Hermann, the great composer who scored so many Hitchcock movies. It was also used in “American Horror Story, Murder House” Season One.

[@BabyNoah22]

Stunt man Mike meets 2 Stunt girls

[@chandie5298]

11:38 this film takes place in the same universe as Kill Bill. The events of Death Proof take place before the events of Kill Bill. One of the other characters in both films in the second part of Death Proof dies in Kill Bill.

[@kcw]

This is Tarantino's delve into cheesy cheap, poor acted movies from the 60's and 70's mostly. They are often called "B" movies. They are terrible in most cases but some would get cult following. Back then, you would go to a drive in theater and get 2 movies. A Double Feature. This is only 1 of the 2 from "Tarantino"s" vision of movies from back then. I don't remember the name of the other. Another Super cult classic You have got to see is "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". You will Love it. REALLY LOVE IT!!