"If Times Square grindhouses still existed, the films of Nicolas Winding Refn would be right at home projected on their faded and tattered screens."
Psychedelic sex kicks of Times Square grindhouses
From the DM Archives.
A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly shows exploitation films. According to historian David Church, this theater type was named after the "grind policy", a film-programming strategy dating back to the early 1920s that continuously showed films at cut-rate ticket prices that typically rose over the course of each day. This exhibition practice was markedly different from the era's more common practice of fewer shows per day and graduated pricing for different seating sections in large urban theaters.
The association with a lower class of audience member led grindhouse theaters to gradually become seen as disreputable places that showed disreputable films—regardless of the variety (including subsequent-run Hollywood films) that they showed.
Due to these theaters' proximity to controversially sexualized forms of entertainment like burlesque, the term "grindhouse" has often been erroneously associated with burlesque theaters in urban entertainment areas like 42nd Street in New York City,[1] where 'bump n' grind' dancing and striptease were featured.[2]
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A term used to describe a movie that sacrifices the traditional film-making concepts such as good acting, character development, production values, creative directing and an understandable plot outline in favor for sex, gore, nudity, violence and other shocking themes.
The term originates from the word used to describe theatres that were known to screen such movies.
The term has now been repopularized through Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez movie using that particular name.
The term originates from the word used to describe theatres that were known to screen such movies.
The term has now been repopularized through Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez movie using that particular name.
Dude 1: "Dude, would you be so kind as to pass me that grindhouse-dvd over there?"
Dude 2: "Which one? Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Thriller, Cannibal Holocaust, The Beyond, I Spit On Your Grave, Last House On the Left, The Big Bird Cage, I Drink Your Blood, Bloodsucking Freaks, The Toolbox Murders, Superfly, Blacula, Dr.Blackenstein, Zombi Flesh Eaters, Virus, Mondo Cannibale, Porn Holocaust, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Supervixens, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, The Illsa Trilogy Box or the various Emanuelle flicks with Laura Gemser?"
Dude 2: "Which one? Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Thriller, Cannibal Holocaust, The Beyond, I Spit On Your Grave, Last House On the Left, The Big Bird Cage, I Drink Your Blood, Bloodsucking Freaks, The Toolbox Murders, Superfly, Blacula, Dr.Blackenstein, Zombi Flesh Eaters, Virus, Mondo Cannibale, Porn Holocaust, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Supervixens, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, The Illsa Trilogy Box or the various Emanuelle flicks with Laura Gemser?"
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