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The salacious and uproarious AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE explores the hidden history of the exploitation film, those popular purveyors of cheap sex and violence. It emerged from the tents of carnie sideshows into features like Freaks, and mutated from there to change with the times. There were the rebellious teen flicks of the Eisenhower 50s, bloody gore-fests and drug movies of the turbulent 60s, and the Blaxploitation boom in the 70s. AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE takes a fascinating look at the films, filmmakers, shysters, and hustlers who made it all happen. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), with exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors and critics Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, John Landis, Fred Williamson, Kim Morgan and many more. Featuring over 200 clips from some of the most outrageous movies ever made, AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE is the most comprehensive documentary ever made on these masterpieces of the lowbrow.
Original Release
02/04/2011
US Release
02/04/2011
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Forster | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator |
Eric Schaefer | Self - Film Historian |
Eddie Muller | Self - Film Historian / Himself |
John Landis | Self - Director, Animal House / Himself |
Kim Morgan | Self - Film Historian / Herself |
Fred Olen Ray | Self - Director, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers / Himself |
Allison Anders | Self - Director, Mi Vida Loca / Herself |
Joe Dante | Self - Director, Gremlins / Himself |
Herschell Gordon Lewis | Self - Director, Scum of the Earth / Himself |
Jeremy Kasten | Self - Director, Wizard of Gore / Himself |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Forster | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator |
Eric Schaefer | Self - Film Historian |
Eddie Muller | Self - Film Historian / Himself |
John Landis | Self - Director, Animal House / Himself |
Kim Morgan | Self - Film Historian / Herself |
Fred Olen Ray | Self - Director, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers / Himself |
Allison Anders | Self - Director, Mi Vida Loca / Herself |
Joe Dante | Self - Director, Gremlins / Himself |
Herschell Gordon Lewis | Self - Director, Scum of the Earth / Himself |
Jeremy Kasten | Self - Director, Wizard of Gore / Himself |
William Lustig | Self - Director, Maniac Cop / Himself |
Lewis Teague | Self - Director, Cujo / Himself |
David Hess | Self - Actor, The Last House on the Left / Himself |
Bob Minor | Self - Actor, Foxy Brown / Himself |
Jack Hill | Self - Director, Coffy & Foxy Brown / Himself |
Fred Williamson | Self - Actor, Three the Hard Way / Himself |
Larry Cohen | Self - Director, Black Caeser / Himself |
Jonathan Kaplan | Self - Director, Truck Turner / Himself |
Judith Brown | Self - Actress, The Big Doll House / Herself |
Ted V. Mikels | Self - Director, The Corpse Grinders / Himself |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jeff Broadstreet | Executive Producer |
Ingo Jucht | Executive Producer |
Elijah Drenner | Producer |
Calum Waddell | Producer |
Dan Greene | Producer |