At an US military base, when appear convoy led by an official(Bruce Willis),a black-market dealer named Abby(Naven Andrews) accidentally releases an experimental and highly contagious gas. Those exposed suffer a complete transformation, turning into meat-eating zombies. A stripper named Cherrie(Rose McGowan, extraordinaries scenes with a leg machine gun),her mechanic ex-lover Wray(a valiant Freddy Rodriguez),Dr. Dakota(Marley Shelton)who's fleeing her sadist husband Dr. Block (a nasty Josh Brolin),the sheriff( Michael Bhien) stay stranded into a inn called 'The Bone Shack' whose owner is an astute vet(a sympathetic Jeff Fahey) and surrounded by zombies starving of flesh human.They take on the zombies sickos, and become only survivors facing the world destruction by deadly epidemic.

This exciting film packs tension, chills, thrills, terror, sadism, tongue in check and lots of blood and gore- including stabbing,slicing,stabbing,quartering- courtesy of Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger; they create a truly creepy make-up of horrible zombies cannibals.The flesh-eating mutants appearance deliver the goods with hair raising thrills and plenty of scares and eerie murders.The astonishing killings are gruesomely executed and grisly graphic. This movie is better than Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, as contains more action and amusing, both tales form a diptych titled 'Grindhouse'. Various players repeat acting, as Marley Shelton as Dr Dakota, Michael Sacks as McGraw and the Avellan twins as the babysitters, they're nice-in law of Robert Rodriguez and wife, Elizabet Avellan(film's producer). Besides appear Tom Savini, prestigious maker-up of Romero films and Carlos Gallardo, El Mariachi's starring , both playing two deputies.The motion picture is lavishly produced by Harvey and Bob Weinstein(Dimension films),Rodriguez's usual producers. Moving musical score, special cinematography and nice direction by Robert Rodriguez. Rating : Above average, the film will like to terror fans with some humor and irony.

I think that the concept that resulted in this movie and DEATH PROOF (marketed together under the banner "Grindhouse" in the USA) was fatally flawed, though interesting. These two films were a homage to the ultra-low budget shocker films of the 1970s that were marketed as double-features in sleazy theaters. These over the top 70s films often received X-ratings because they were so violent and explicit, though by today's standards they are often relatively tame. I've seen a few and was actually surprised that they weren't THAT bad. Some good examples of good "grind-house" films were the Sonny Chiba "Streetfighter" series and a few of the Blaxploitation films. While x-rated and super-violent, the stories were exciting and the action top-notch--and they have an artistic value not generally assumed to be possible in these style films.

However, as I said, I think the idea is fatally flawed for two main reasons. The bad grind-house films sucked and always will suck--they were just brain-numbingly stupid, violent and sick--and this is totally true with PLANET TERROR. I simply think life is too short to watch sleazy crap (prime example--the attempted rape scene--UGGH!!). Second, there was a certain campiness in some of the films that was, at times, charming and a real product of the times. However, 30 years later, the times have changed and no matter how hard you try, you can't recreate the genre. Instead of cheap and funny, newer incarnations are different--mostly due to much higher budgets and an inability to capture the exact spirit and style. I can see that the director TRIED (especially by making the prints deliberately scratchy and including ultra-sleazy promos for fake coming attractions),but it isn't the same. Plus, I really DON'T find myself hoping that they'll make more of these films or want a steady diet of these nihilistic films. As for me, after about the 30th or 40th zombie corpse being shot to pieces or exploding when getting hit by a truck, I just felt incredibly bored by the whole thing. Rodriquez managed to make carnage and bloodshed dull. I also noticed my IQ drop the longer I watched this movie.

For the love of God, if you actually like this sort of film, don't let your kids see it! They won't be right afterwards and you'll be responsible for creating a sociopath!!

Conceived as part of his Grindhouse double bill with Quentin Tarantino but released separately from Tarantino's DEATH PROOF internationally, PLANET TERROR is a glorious throwback to the schlocky exploitation days of the 1970s, where so-called 'grindhouse' cinemas played a series of low budget gore-filled 'nasties' to audiences eager for sex and sadism. Having seen many of the original exploitation films in question, I'm pleased to say that director Robert Rodriguez gets it spot on and the look and feel of this film is just right.

Things kick off on a high note with Rose McGowan go-go dancing. I've never been a fan of this actress, but that's changed right here with the role she has. She's perfectly cast as the tough yet vulnerable dancer who loses a limb but gains a weapon in the zombie attack, and it helps that she's as hot as hell. The one thing I loved straight away was the soundtrack, especially the main theme with the saxophone playing – great stuff that had me humming along.

Anyway, the film that follows is a simple story of a zombie attack, starting off isolated incidents and building into an all-out zombie rampage. The usual scenarios are present, from the survivors holed up in a deserted diner to the killer soldiers involved in a cover-up. PLANET TERROR has few twists, instead it lets the narrative drive itself with a series of outlandish action sequences which are thoroughly entertaining. The biggest treat, though, lies in this film's casting; Rodriguez seems to have assembled a bunch of stars, old and new, A-list and B-list, and they come together nicely. I won't go through the bother of listing them all - the cast list is available right here on IMDb - only to say that Michael Biehn and Jeff Fahey really stand out as the kooky brothers, the latter particularly fine after years of being stuck in B-movie limbo. The gooey gore comes thick and fast and only a few scenes descend into inanity; the Tarantino cameo is a bit of a disappointment but the rest works gloriously well.