PlanetTerrorBluRay

Planet Terror Blu-Ray review

To begin I love both Grindhouse movies but Planet Terror edges out Death Proof by just a little. This is Rodriguez's zombie craziness and its fast and fun. The story if your not familiar about a group of people attempting to survive an onslaught of zombie- as they feud with a military unit, including a go-go dancer, doctor with some sleepy hands and a few crazy babysitters thrown in for good measure. The star of this crazy train is Rose McGowan who plays a down go-go dancer who soon will not need any of her right shoes. Marley Shelton is the one of the other leads here she plays a doctor with a husband and a kid and a secret which isn’t kept too long in the movie. Special mention for Josh Brolin for a devilish doctor and husband. Also Jeff Fahey and Michael Biehn are great in their roles.

With the Blu-Ray comes a version of recently found footage which contains a "scratch free" version included which also looks pretty darn good IMO. I found that version clear and very vivid; it does contain the original DVD version as well.

The sound is great but I don’t have HD Receiver so cant comment on the Dolby True HD, the 5.1 track worked for me, I would suggest trying the audience track recorded in Austin's Alamo Draft house its a hoot and fun at house to hear all the clapping and laughing that went on during the recording of the track during which the dialog is still clear to the ear.

The Extras are carried over from the DVD release. There's an 11 minute one titled '10-minute film school' where Robert Rodriguez talks about the making of the movie, there are shorts on 'the gals' and the 'boys', extras on the special effects, trailers, to my surprise, the quality of extras is quite decent.

I would have to say Planet Terror is just a fun movie and of course I have to mention the trailer at before the feature is Machete which stars Danny Trejo, its a hoot and hopefully will be a feature length movie one of these days. I give this hope recommendations and say pick this sucker up

3 ½ out of 4

Reviewed by Steve Benningfield