Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof

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Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof

2007,

1h 54m,

Mystery & Thriller/

Action/

Horror

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Stuntman Mike is a professional body double who likes to take unsuspecting women for deadly drives in his free time. He has doctored his car for maximum impact; when Mike purposely causes wrecks, the bodies pile up while he walks away with barely a scratch. The insane Mike may be in over his head, though, when he targets a tough group of female friends, including real-life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who served as Uma Thurman's double in "Kill Bill"), who plays herself.

Critics Consensus

Death Proof may feel somewhat minor in the context of Tarantino's larger filmography, but on its own merits, it packs just enough of a wallop to deliver sufficiently high-octane grindhouse goods.

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

Nov 17, 2007

3.5/4

Death Proof is superbly made. There's a terrible tension watching these beautiful and spirited young women getting too close to the flame, followed by enormous relief when the mood changes in the second story.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Sep 21, 2007

1/5

The dialogue with which Tarantino is usually adept is disastrously clunky, the filmmaking largely without flair and even the apeing of the smears and scratches of the schlock originals seems ridiculous.

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

Sep 21, 2007

3/5

With its scratchy print, jerky editing and retro title sequence, Quentin Tarantino's fifth film bends over backwards to establish its Seventies sexploitation-flick credentials.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Jan 14, 2025

4/5

Deliberately paced but never boring, Tarantino's half of the 'Grindhouse" double bill builds to an adrenaline-pumping climax.

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

Jan 9, 2025

4/5

While not all of the female characters are fully fleshed out, the feminist message in Tarantino's car chase movie is impossible to overlook, especially with that satisfying and cathartic final freeze frame.

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Gayle Sequeira

BFI

Nov 17, 2024

The two halves of Death Proof each conclude with a superb car sequence: one a crash, the other a chase; one at night, the other at daytime; one sickening, the other supremely satisfying.

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Theodore P

Apr 21, 2019

If you like Tarantino you'll like this. Not flashy but funny and a fresh nonethelessless

Abraham W

Mar 24, 2019

One of the best suspense horror movies.

Harry R

Mar 6, 2019

This is kind of a flop and I don't think its that great. Its still enjoyable for a first watch.

Han G

Feb 23, 2019

Like Napoleon Dynamite, Raising Arizona, Donnie Darko, and Fight Club. This movie gets better each time you watch it.

Feb 15, 2019

one of the most boring movies ever.

Abraham R

Dec 23, 2018

Sensless violence with almost no story, but the soundtrack is amazing.

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Synopsis

Stuntman Mike is a professional body double who likes to take unsuspecting women for deadly drives in his free time. He has doctored his car for maximum impact; when Mike purposely causes wrecks, the bodies pile up while he walks away with barely a scratch. The insane Mike may be in over his head, though, when he targets a tough group of female friends, including real-life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who served as Uma Thurman's double in "Kill Bill"), who plays herself.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Elizabeth Avellan, Robert Rodriguez, Erica Steinberg, Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Production Co: Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company, Troublemaker Studios
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016
Runtime: 1h 54m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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