PLANET TERROR | Production Companies, Attraction & Connecting Genres

To umbrella an array of tasks and to stop some repetition in posts, I have decided to analyse the Planet Terror as a means of picking apart its conventions, attracting features and production companies.

PLOT SUMMARY (Planet Terror)

"After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas are mutated into zombies out to kill. Various assortments of people including a stripper and her mechanic-ex boyfriend, a doctor and a local sheriff have to join forces to survive the night and stop the "sickos" fro taking over the town and eventually, the world."

Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up to create a fake production company called Grindhouse in order to sell their films: Death Proof and Planet Terror. It is also a parody of the Hammerhouse film production company based in the UK that used to develop early horror films such as the Frankenstein and Dracula franchises and crossovers. Ofcourse, the style has been heavily Americanised with action, sex and violence to attract a mostly male audience. After all, a Grindhouse is an American term for a theatre that mainly shows Exploitation films. It is named after the Burlesque theatres of New York where strip teases and bump'n'grind dancing was featured. Exploitation films are usually in the horror genre, which links into the Post-Apocayptic films as Zombies seem to be the most popular choice for ending the world. The films are seen to be low budget (Despite Tarantino being influential directors who have hired a plethora of A-list stars for their films) and include sex & violence as a key selling point.

Despite a large budget and a substantially well-known cast for both of these films, they appeal to their audience because they seem so culturally unappealing.

The real production companies for Planet Terror, however, are high budget and are famous for bringing us numerous amouns of different-genred films.

Dimension Films is a major American film production and distribution studio formerly owned by The Walt Disney Studios, it is now owned by The Weinstein Company. It is famous for horror and action films such as The Crow, From Dusk till Dawn, the Scream Franchise, Sin City and Equilibrium.

Troublemaker Studios is a film production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellan. They're responsible for for most of Robert Rodruiguez' films such as Once upon a Time in Mexico and also Spy Kids.

These studios create cult classics which mostly appeal to the male genre. Though not culturally fulfilling, they generate alot of money and hype among cinema go-ers.