It took a few weeks, but I finally hauled my ass in front of the screen for the first half of the grindhouse release, Robert Rodriguez’ ‘Planet Terror’. And it turned out to be a true B-flick, so ridiculously over-the-top that you can possibly get. And unlike Tarantino’s other half, this is damned great entertainment all the way.

Rodriguez has assembled a cast of both seasoned and less familiar actors, notably Bruce Willis, Naveen Andrews, Jeff Fahey, Rose McGowan, Michael Biehn (in a welcomed comeback) and Freddy Rodriguez, as well as a minor role by Quentin Tarantino himself. Production-wise, the movie bears many similarities to ‘Death Proof’, with reel damages and weird cutting. It truly invokes a feeling of vintage, cheap pulp – although the production must have been anything but. It turns out to be a hilarious splatter-film, with the most ludicrous plot I’ve seen in a while, not to mention the exaggerated effects, with fountains of blood and tissue, boiling skin and removal of testicles. If you feel that ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ was rather gruesome, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

It all starts with an illegal deal between a rather unorthodox biological professor and military veterans. The veterans are dependant on toxic gas to keep human, and as soon they remove their masks, their skin starts boiling. The deal go sour, and the professor manages to save his life by shooting the containers, ensuring that the gas leaks out in the air. Soon, people starts running down the hospital with strange wounds, that the local doctor are unable to treat. They seem infected by some horrible disease, and soon starts attacking healthy patients. Bloodbath ensues, and the local policeforce are spraying the area with bullets. It’s a rather typical zombie plot, except from the sheer lunacy in writing. Of course, the story needs a gritty hero; the supposedly legendary El Wrey.

Action-packed, unbelievable, weird and funny as hell. It’s deliberately embarrassing, so stupid and so unimaginable violent that even ‘Black Sheep’ is laid to waste. This is without doubt the coolest zombie film I’ve laid eyes upon since Peter Jackson’s ‘Brain Dead’. And definately the most unpretentious film of the year. It’s so deranged and unashamed that Willis even claims to have killed Bin Laden in Afghanistan. 9,5/10