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The 1980s home video market and urban renewal
threatened to render the grindhouse obsolete. By the end
of that decade, grindhouse theaters had vanished from
former urban "sleaze" districts like Boston's Combat
Zone, Los Angeles' Broadway and Hollywood Boulevards,
New York City's Times Square and San Francisco's Market
Street. By the mid-1990s, they had completely
disappeared from the United States.
There remains much affection for the grindhouse era
amongst some cinephiles. An example is the 2007 release
of Grindhouse, a double feature consisting of Planet
Terror and Death Proof, directed by Robert Rodriguez and
Quentin Tarantino, respectively.
Both films contain
elements found in many grindhouse films, and are bridged
by trailers for fictitious films that also fit into the
grindhouse genre (sexploitation, slasher films, etc.).
Grindhouse also features simulated film scratches,
splices and some clipped dialogue, to recreate the
feeling that the prints of the films are worn and
battered copies, which was often true of the prints of
many films grindhouse theaters showed in their heyday.
Exploitation film - Subgenres
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