American Grindhouse

American Grindhouse is a 2010 documentary directed and produced by Elijah Drenner.[1] The film made its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas on March 13, 2010.[2]

American Grindhouse
Directed byElijah Drenner
Produced byElijah Drenner
Written byElijah Drenner
Calum Waddell
Narrated byRobert Forster
Music byJason Brandt
CinematographyDan Greene
Edited byElijah Drenner
Andrew Goldenberg
Dan Greene
Production
company
Lux Digital Pictures
End Films
Distributed byLorber Films
Release date
  • March 13, 2010 (2010-03-13) (SXSW)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Overview

The documentary chronicles the history of the American exploitation film from the days of Thomas Edison to contemporary films of the 21st century.[3] The film features interviews with John Landis, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, Don Edmonds, Fred Williamson, Allison Anders, James Gordon White, Larry Cohen, William Lustig, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Judy Brown, Jeremy Kasten, Jonathan Kaplan, Bob Minor, Lewis Teague, David Hess and Fred Olen Ray. The documentary also features film historians Eddie Muller, Kim Morgan and Eric Schaefer. Robert Forster narrates.[4]

Films referenced

Many film titles and posters get shown in passing, but this is a list of the films that are commented on or analyzed in the voiceover or by the interviewees. The list is in chronological order, but some of the films are mentioned in the documentary out of that sequence to fit with the themes.

The main films referenced in the documentary are:

[5][6][7]

Reception

It had earned positive reviews from critics with some like Village Voice's Mark Holcomb saying "nitpicky enough to please film-history nerds but lively in a way hat should tickle the merely curious".[8][9]

Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregator, gave the film an 86%.[10]

gollark: That seems really hard to check.
gollark: (also, I guess the target audience may get bored of it quite fast)
gollark: Yes, since most people are not cool™ enough to do this.
gollark: But you could just discard anything low-effort-looking anyway, if you're doing it manually.
gollark: It sounds like you'd still have to do lots of manual filtering.

See also

References
  1. SXSW Review: American Grindhouse - Film School Rejects
  2. "American Grindhouse Preview at SXSW '10". Dread Central. March 3, 2010.
  3. Slant Magazine
  4. Underground Film Journal
  5. New York Times
  6. Puppet Nazis vs. the Grindhouse!|Demanders|Roger Ebert.com
  7. DVD Talk
  8. Holcomb, Mark (February 2, 2011). "American Grindhouse Traces the Lineage of Cheapjack Cinematic Slop". Village Voice.
  9. Hale, Mike (February 3, 2011). "Exploitation 101". The New York Times.
  10. American Grindhouse at Rotten Tomatoes
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