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Examples
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Hopefully they have some good, old fashioned, grind-house style fun with this one.
Thom Beers Bringing Chopper Zombie to the Big Screen! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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There's the terrible voice-over, the fact that it's perfectly clear hand-held footage with this continual fake scratching appearing over the top trying to be a grind-house trailer but just looking too clean, and the terrible slow turns to camera, oh and the priest almost had me in stitches.
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And to Tarantino: To me the only thing missing from our grind-house movies is they are not quite sleazy enough ...
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If it wasn't for his grind-house reinvention of Ghost Rider, the book would be completely worthless right now.
Archive 2009-01-25 2009
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With VHS it's like I'm experiencing an old grind-house movie theater.
NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011
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Yes, we all know that would-be cult films and/or homages to 1970s/1980s grind-house fare don't necessarily play well with general audiences (the film scored a 'C+' from Cinemascore), and there is a huge disconnect between what overgrown film nerds think is 'cool' (the film played 69% male and 57% over 30) and what regular moviegoers will pay first-run prices to see in a theater.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Scott Mendelson 2011
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With VHS it's like I'm experiencing an old grind-house movie theater.
NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011
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A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-'60s Tokyo underworld.
AvaxHome RSS: CerealRipper 2010
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We are [going for] a grittier feel and a much darker edged 'grind-house' appeal to our lyrical concepts taking influences from some of the more hardcore exploitation type films of the late '70s such as I Spit On Your Grave and Last House On The Left.
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I wanted an authentic grind-house 70's cinema look, so we opted to shoot Super
Irish Blogs Behind the Couch 2010
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