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grindhouse
[grahynd-hous]
noun
Also grind house a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
a movie theater with inexpensive admission pricing that shows low-budget films one after another, throughout the day and all or most of the night.
adjective
of or relating to the low-budget films shown in these theaters, as exploitation films or B-movies: His art films have a cheap grindhouse aesthetic.
It’s an old grindhouse flick with cannibals hunting teens through an abandoned warehouse.
His art films have a cheap grindhouse aesthetic.
grindhouse
/ ˈɡraɪndˌhaʊs /
noun
a cinema specializing in violent or exploitative films such as martial arts movies from Japan and Hong Kong
( as modifier )
a grindhouse film
Word History and Origins
Origin of grindhouse1
Example Sentences
Gratefully, Robinson clearly loves her characters too and makes their screen time count rather than treating them like grindhouse fodder, that kind of violent vaudeville where you can’t wait for the hook, to drag someone off screaming.
Imbuing everyone’s favorite mythical horned horse with bloodlust is such a ready-to-rock concept that it keeps your grindhouse hopes alive for the horror-comedy “Death of a Unicorn,” even as your wandering attention betrays the reality of a wannabe cult movie that mostly gallops in place.
It is Cronenberg’s empathic, almost tender approach to the material that humanizes the film; his tonal approach is redemptive rather than grindhouse exploitative.
He didn’t just passively watch the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone or the grindhouse films of the 1970s, he dissected them scene by scene.
And several boutique home media labels, including Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Grindhouse Releasing, Something Weird and Vinegar Syndrome, have made their most popular titles available for subscribers.
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