Q 01/05

Grindhouse (2007) is a double feature made by which two directors?

A) Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino

B) Eli Roth and Rob Zombie

C) Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg

D) Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson

Answer · why

A) Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino

The idea came out of double-feature nights Tarantino hosted at his house, complete with vintage trailers between the films.

Q 02/05

Which director wrote and directed Planet Terror, the zombie half of Grindhouse?

A) Quentin Tarantino

B) Robert Rodriguez

C) Eli Roth

D) Rob Zombie

Answer · why

B) Robert Rodriguez

Rodriguez had started the zombie script years earlier during The Faculty, telling Elijah Wood and Josh Hartnett that zombie movies were about to come ...

Q 03/05

Who plays Stuntman Mike, the killer who murders women with his modified cars in Death Proof?

A) Michael Biehn

B) Josh Brolin

C) Kurt Russell

D) Bruce Willis

Answer · why

C) Kurt Russell

Tarantino cast him because he wanted a new audience to see Russell "be a badass again"; Kal Penn and Sylvester Stallone were also approached for the f...

Q 04/05

In Planet Terror, go-go dancer Cherry Darling loses a leg and eventually replaces it with what?

A) A chainsaw

B) A shotgun

C) A flamethrower

D) A machine gun

Answer · why

D) A machine gun

Effects artists digitally erased the actress's real leg and replaced it first with a table leg and then an M16.

Q 05/05

Which actress plays Cherry Darling in Planet Terror?

A) Rose McGowan

B) Marley Shelton

C) Rosario Dawson

D) Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Answer · why

A) Rose McGowan

She also appears in Death Proof as Pam, and was Saturn-nominated for the double bill.

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