Tarantino and Rodriguez chat Grind House

There have been worrying rumours surrounding the Grind House exploitation movie celebration that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have been planning – particularly Rodriguez' effort. But now the pair has been talking to Entertainment Weekly and everything seems to be on track.

“Our original idea was to do a horror double feature,” QT tells the magazine. "The genre I wanted to tackle was slasher films, because I'm a big fan of late-'70s, early-'80s slasher films. The only thing was, what makes them so good is the genre is so rigid. And I had an idea about a guy who kills girls with his car as opposed to a machete, and I put it in a slasher-film structure. Other than the big car moments, though, my thing could be a Eugene O'Neill play. These girls just talk and talk and talk. If it wasn't for the car stuff, I could do my thing on stage."

As for Rodriguez? “Mine's a zombie movie called Planet Terror. It feels like a John Carpenter movie that took place between Escape From New York and The Thing. I wanted to do a zombie script a while back because there hadn't been any good zombie movies in a while. I got about 30 pages into it, and then all these zombie movies came out. So I thought, 'Well, I don't have to make them zombies — there could be other reasons why they're like this. They're infected people.'”

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