Thu, Oct 1 @ 8:00 pm: Second Best - 42 Watson St, Detroit, MI 48201

Director: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez Run Time: 191 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2007

Starring: Freddy Rodriguez, Hung Nguyen, Jeff Fahey, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt, Rose McGowan, Stacy Ferguson

We’re bringing the Grindhouse to Second Best! Come on out for this legendary Exploitation Double Feature! Plus, the Second Best team will be slinging their signature drinks and snacks.

FYI: BYO Chairs and Blankets

Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez join forces to offer a cinematic tribute to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of yesteryear with this hyper-violent coupling of two full-length features punctuated by a collection of outrageous trailers. The first segment, directed by Rodriguez and entitled Planet Terror, details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoids who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who refuse to go down without a fight. Freddy Rodriguez, Naveen Andrews, and Rose McGowan headline a cast that also includes Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn, Josh Brolin, Bruce Willis, and Tom Savini. In Death Proof — director Tarantino’s take on such peddle-to-the-metal shockers as White Line Fever — Kurt Russell stars as an engine-revving psychopath who prefers to take out his beautiful victims at 200 mph. With a list of potential roadkill candidates that includes Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Rosario Dawson, and Vanessa Ferlito, Death Proof takes viewers on an adrenaline-infused drive that’s as sexy as it is shocking. Its tantalizing title borrowed from the term frequently used to describe the seedy, 1970s-era inner-city movie theaters that screened excessive, low-budget independent films containing copious amounts of violence and nudity as a means of offering counter-programming to the decidedly more restrained big-budget studio films, Grindhouse takes its love for these unabashedly sleazy efforts one step further by offering a jaw-dropping collection of fake exploitation trailers from such directors as Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, and Edgar Wright.