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Cinema's biggest badass is back! Flush from the success of his Kill Bill films, Quentin Tarantino brings you a blast from the past with Grindhouse: Death Proof.

It's a film that pays tribute to the gory, exploitative films of the 1960s and 1970s that were often shown in sleazy urban theatres (otherwise known as grindhouses). Quentin clearly loves those old B-grade films, and wanted to celebrate their raw filmmaking techniques, as well as their orgiastic violence and mayhem

Death Proof builds up rather slowly with two sets of four women just talking about everything and nothing � as characters in Tarantino films often do. They talk trash, call each other "niggas" or "bitches", and curse a lot. Enter Kurt Russell, a mysterious man with a long scar down the side of his face, who tries to chat up the attractive young women.

What follows afterwards are shocking sequences of uncontrolled killing and slaughter � guaranteed to make you groan and look away now and then. With berserk stuntwork and a gory car crash at the end, you can be sure this isn't a film you're going to forget soon.

A must-see for fans of extreme cinema, and any other movie-goers keen on exploring the wide vocabulary of cinema.