What happens when two masters of action cinema, Quentin Tarentino (Pulp Fiction) and Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, El Mariachi), team up with three horror directors – Eli Roth (Hostel), Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead), and Rob Zombie (House of a Thousand Corpses)? They create one hell of a double feature experience. In fact, viewing Grindhouse feels more like an event than a film.

The first movie is Planet Terror, which is a zombie tale with a modern twist and loads of action. Rodriguez took a big risk to film his hungry undead because of the hordes of zombie flicks already available to the carnivorous younger market.

But Planet Terror delivers on every level. It has tons of action, gallons of gore, memorable characters and some pretty funny dialogue.

Everyone in Planet Terror delivers an excellent performance. Wray (Freddy Rodriguez) and go-go dancer Cherry (Rose McGowan) fight an onslaught of undead together. Cherry, with an assault rifl e for a leg, seizes the meatiest moments in this movie, and that’s every bit as awesome as it sounds.

Death Proof, Tarantino’s half of the project, combines the slasher- film genre with an explosive car chase. Death Proof stars Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, who stalks women and kills them. His weapon of choice isn’t a knife, gun or even poison. Instead, Tarantino throws a two-ton twist into the mix: Stuntman Mike uses his car to kill his victims. That’s a breath of fresh air for celluloid serial killers.

Death Proof is easily one of Tarantino’s best films, almost as good as Pulp Fiction. For those who were feeling unsatisfied with Kill Bill Vol. 2, Death Proof has an incredibly satisfying ending – so satisfying that you’ll leap from your seat and cheer.

The film has incredible special effects, and none of them were done with computer-generated imagery. Everything you see on the screen was accomplished by death-defying stuntmen and top-notch special effects crews.

The price of a ticket buys you more than a double feature, too.

Between the two fims, there are short fake trailers by Roth, Wright and Zombie. That fakery is fun.

So, if you haven’t been to Grindhouse, go on and check it out. If you’re a fan of action films, this is a double dose.