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- noun Plural form of
grindhouse .
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Examples
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While I am looking forward to the upcoming Grindhouse, I also am looking back to the time when I saw movies at the so-called grindhouses of New York City’s 42nd Street back in the Seventies.
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Henenlotter has often been quoted as having been influenced by the movies that would play in the Times Square grindhouses of this youth.
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For the uninitiated, grindhouses as in bump and grind were often repurposed burlesque theaters that specialized in showing luridly entertaining flicks.
Dan Lybarger: The 'Grind' in Grindhouse: Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc on The Victim Dan Lybarger 2011
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Once a staple of drive-in movie theaters and urban grindhouses, the "blaxploitation" genre was largely played out by the end of the 1970s.
Giving a Shout-Out to Infamous Films Steve Dollar 2012
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For the uninitiated, grindhouses as in bump and grind were often repurposed burlesque theaters that specialized in showing luridly entertaining flicks.
Dan Lybarger: The 'Grind' in Grindhouse: Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc on The Victim Dan Lybarger 2011
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Henenlotter has often been quoted as having been influenced by the movies that would play in the Times Square grindhouses of this youth.
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I gravitated to the grindhouses in downtown Cincinnati to watch genre movies by Roger Corman, Mario Bava, the AIP beach party movies, Douglas Sirk melodramas, and so on.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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Henenlotter has often been quoted as having been influenced by the movies that would play in the Times Square grindhouses of this youth.
Interview with Frank Henenlotter, Part 1 & 2 « Third Point of Singularity 2009
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Blu-rays of Fulci classics The Beyond and City Of The Living Dead show that the films are far more atmospheric and better made than they ever appeared before, and for Henenlotter with the imminent Frankenhooker disc you get extensive extras that cover the rarely examined scene of low-budget New York film-makers and the lost grindhouses of Times Square and 42nd Street.
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Mayhem is mandatory at these events, which conjure the spirit of legendary 42nd Street grindhouses with the vivid impact of a Quentin Tarantino fever dream.
vendingmachine commented on the word grindhouses
Grindhouses are creaky theaters that would 'grind' away their projectors for triple features filled with second-run films, exploitation flicks, and foreign-film curiosities.
June 24, 2015