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Grindhouse cinema
A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that
mainly showed exploitation films. It is also a term used
to describe the genre of films that played in such
theatres. Grindhouses were known for continuous programs
of B movies, usually consisting of a double feature
where two (and very often three) films were shown
consecutively.
Most of these films were made for
Drive-in theaters as second and third features. The
producers, distributors, and exhibitors of the films
were required to provide a large amount of low budget
films for double features so would "grind" them out like
mincemeat.
Beginning in the late 1960s
and especially during the 1970s, the subject matter of grindhouse films was dominated by explicit sex,
violence, bizarre or perverse plot points, and other
explicit malcontent.
Exploitation film - Death Proof
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