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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ
Grindhouse is not a subgenre. Grindhouse is a term used to describe the theatres where exploitation flicks screened.
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Yes, I
know it is the name for the type of theaters that showed exploitation flicks... But the term permeated through the horror culture as to describe the flicks themselves. There's the "Grindhouse" origin (the theaters) and then there's the permutation (the movies).
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
Yup....
I think people now use the term 'Grindhouse' as they were never aware of types 70's exploitation films that played the Grindhouses and Drive ins...Grindhouses were (usually) the inner city flea pits - 42nd Street was a hotbed of em before the clean up of NYC. Drive-Ins are sorta their rural cousins. In their hayday, they both tended to show the same sort of films - cheap action/exploitaton/kung fu/WIP/horror etc often in double or triple bills.
Weirdly enough Planet Terror is more a homage/parody to the later Zombie genre which really wasn't a staple of Grindhouse/Drive in 's bills.
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I know. The way I look at it is that "Grindhouse" described the cinemas at the time that showed these films and then later the term evolved to describe the films played in those cinemas.
I don't think that it's much of a leap to use "Grindhouse" to describe exploitation films of the 70s and 80s.