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''<s> Thunder Bolt</s> Death Proof'' - A stuntman plays on his small fame to hit on girls, then kills them with his car. Little did he realize that a few of his second bunch of victims are stuntwomen... and among them is [[Zoe Bell]] (playing herself), who also doubled for [[Uma Thurman]] in ''[[Kill Bill (Film)|Kill Bill]]'' in real life. Boy, is Stuntman Mike in for a world of hurt...

Also contained a variety of [[Real Trailer Fake Movie|fake movie trailers]]. All of these trailers either have been, are in the process of, or being considered [[Defictionalization|getting made into an actual feature film]].

* ''[[Machete]]'' -- "Mexploitation film" in which a day laborer, played by Danny Trejo, becomes a hitman; also directed by Rodriguez. Has [[Defictionalization|been turned into an actual movie]].

* ''Don't'' -- [[Video Nasties]]-style Britsploitation [[Screamer Trailer]] directed by [[Edgar Wright]], with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Matthew McFadyen, [[The League of Gentlemen|Mark Gatiss]], Jason Isaacs and narration by [[Arrested Development (TV)|Will Arnett]]. The main joke of the trailer is that it's the American trailer for a British horror film, and the distributors, in order to prevent the audience from finding out that it's British, have cut the trailer so that none of the characters are heard speaking and we get no idea of the plot. The name of the trailer was reportedly inspired by Video Nasty ''[[Don't Go in The House]]'', or any number of other films from the late seventies/early eighties "Don't" fad.

* ''Thanksgiving'' -- A [[Gorn|gore-soaked]] [[Slasher Movies|slasher movie]] featuring a killer pilgrim, brought to you by [[Eli Roth]]. Ends with a shot of the killer [[Crosses the Line Twice|raping a Thanksgiving turkey]].

** Cherry's numerous "useless skills" - she finds a use for almost all of them by the end of the film

* [[Creator Cameo]] - Quentin Tarantino appears in both movies (He technically didn't direct Planet Terror, but Robert Rodriguez has stated he was a large part of the creative process). Rodriguez also appears as one of the terrorists selling the biochemicals (the guys who gang up on the other guy and cut his balls off) at the beginning, IIRC.

* [[Defictionalization]] - Rodriguez's ''Machete'' was released in late 2010, and ''Hobo with a Shotgun'' is due to be released in 2011. Rob Zombie is also giving strong consideration to do a full length version of ''Werewolf Women of the SS''.

** ''Grindhouse 2'' would supposedly be ''Don't'' and ''Thanksgiving'', with new fake trailers as well.

* [[Gorn]]

* [[Hammer Horror]]: Possibly ''Don't'', although it appears to be more violent than Hammer usually went.

** Not to MENTION the fact that, while [[Lost|Frank Lapidis]] may fly a plane really well, it's nothing, and I mean nothing...to his barbecue.

** Sheriff Hague is played by Michael Biehn, who played Kyle Reese in ''[[The Terminator]]'' and Corporal Hicks in ''[[Aliens]]''

* [[Ms. Fanservice]] - Pretty much every female character.

* [[No Export for You]] - The theatrical cut of ''Grindhouse'' wasn't released on home video in the US until more than 3 years later, and it wasn't released overseas ''as'' ''Grindhouse'' at all - both movies were released individually.

** And {{spoiler|[[Nicolas Cage]]}} as--[[Overused Running Gag|oh, forget it]].

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]] - The films go to great lengths to give that authentic 1970s grindhouse feel, such as fake trailers, grainy footage, missing reels, jumping scenes, burned film, terrible synthesized music, an ad for a Tex-Mex restaurant which is supposedly next door to the theater you are watching the movie in, etc.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Ehrm, come on, you expected this to be a less gory and less perverted filled with sexual references {{spoiler|including mutating penis}}? It's an exploitation movie, you know. Most of these were '''that''' cheesy back in 70s-80s, you know.

* [[Retraux]]

* [[Running Gag]]: Several, most notably the missing reels.

* [[Shout Out]]: George Romero makeup artist Tom Savini's death in ''Planet Terror'' is very similar to another character's death in Romero's ''Day of the Dead''.

* [[Chekhov's Hobby]]: Zoe's ability to always land on her feet. The girls talk about it in a joking way, but it saves her life later on.

* [[Continuity Nod]] - The sheriff and his deputy who come to the hospital showed up at the wedding chapel massacre in ''[[Kill Bill]].'' (Both the hospital and the chapel were in Texas.)

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - The end; [[Kurt Russell]] gets knocked around by [[Zoe Bell]], [[Rosario Dawson]], and [[Tracie Thoms]], until Zoe roundhouses him on his ass, and Rosario ax-kicks his head in.

* [[Death By Sex]]: Inverted. The first girls, in spite of acting all wild, are actually pretty uptight about sex (especially Arlene/Butterfly), and they die. The second group, on the other hand, are very open about their sex lives, and they not only survive, they kill the bad guy!

* [[Food Porn]] - Come on, admit it. If you didn't get a craving for nachos after watching the nacho scene in ''Death Proof'', you're '''lying'''.

* [[Foot Focus]] - Plenty of it, as usual in Tarantino films. It's even [[Lampshaded]].

* [[Halfway Plot Switch]]: Halfway through, the movie is filmed with a very different style, {{spoiler|with very different characters}}, in a very different place. It was almost like watching a sequel in the middle of the first movie!

** Reading an interview with Tarantino reveals that this is actually exactly what's supposed to be going on.

** Oh, c'mon, it's nachos. How do ''you'' eat them?

* [[Loud Gulp]] - Lee actually says "Gulp" when she realizes her friends have left her with mister Redneck Rapist.

* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Shaped Like Itself]]: - "Why's he called ''Stuntman Mike''?" "'Cause he's a stuntman."

* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: Mike whines and cries and blubbers like a baby after being shot in the arm. Possibly [[Truth in Television]] as bullet wounds that merely graze the skin hurt more due to the higher concentration of nerve endings there.

* [[This Is a Sentence Bitch]]: Virtually all of Kim's dialogue.

* [[Trunk Shot]]: A Tarantino trademark, played with: it's a shot of Kim and Zoe from under the hood.

 

=== Planet Terror ===

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|DC-2 spreads around the world and no one has any way of finding a cure but Cherry is leading survivors to humanity's last foothold on the Mexican coast}}.

* [[Body Horror]]: By the buckets.

* [[Boom Headshot]]: Poor, poor Abby.

** Muldoon says he delivered one to [[Osama Bin Laden]], along with a shot to the chest. Back in 2007, it was kinda funny; in 2011, it's ''really'' funny because that's how bin Laden really died.

** "Two against the world, baby."

** "[[Brain Food|I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge."]]

* [[Combat Stilettos]] - Cherry, on her good leg.

* [[The Danza]]: Skip the club owner is played by Skip, Robert Rodriguez' realtor.

* [[Eye Scream]]

* [[Finger Damage]] - Poor, poor Dakota Block.

{{quote| ''"Science comes first but business comes a close fucking seconds."''}}

* [[Four Eyes Zero Soul]] - Dr. William Block. And keep in mind, {{spoiler|that was ''before'' he was turned into a zombie.}} You gotta admit, those specs look good though.

** There's a Meta-Gag in there as well. An presumed urban legend (re-told in the novel ''[[Fight Club]]'') is that older movies would have their nude scenes cut shorter and shorter as projectionists removed a few choice frames for their collection.

* [[Made of Plasticine]] - ''Everyone'', human and zombie alike.

* [[No Name Given]]: We don't really know what Cherry's real name is. "Palomita" was just something Wray gave.

* [[Noodle Incident]] - The "missing reel". Cut to the diner on fire. Sheriff Hague had been shot. Dakota and her father, the babysitters, the go-go dancing club owner and some of the dancers somehow made it there.

* [[Rated M for Manly]]

* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: Dr. Dakota Block gives a gun to her child, when she leaves him alone in a car. {{spoiler|He shoots himself in the face ([[I Just Shot Marvin in The Face|accidentally]] or [[Driven to Suicide|not]]) within a few seconds of her leaving the car.}}

* [[Sexophone]]: ''Planet Terror'''s opening theme, played over Cherry's go-go dance routine. Later spoofed by the saxophonist playing it in the prison cell.

* [[Staking the Loved One]]: Earl does this to his wife.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: {{spoiler|The Rapist (played by Tarantino tries to have his way with Cherry. He is smashed over the head with a table leg, impaled in the eye by the leg's broken end, has his privates melt off from the infection taking over him, has a syringe launched into his other eye, melts into an inhuman monster, pukes up his guts, then finally is ''shot in the crotch with a grenade launcher''.}} Good grief.

** You know what they say... {{spoiler|[[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Cherry in a big way.

* [[Woman in White]]: Cherry in the ending.

* [[Word of Dante]]: The vehicles driven by the undead U.S soldiers are emblazoned with "UNIT 31" so maybe that's the name of their regiment. It hasn't been stated otherwise.