American Grindhouse

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Grand Illusion

1403 N.E. 50th St.
Seattle, WA 98105

Category: Movie Theaters

Region: University District

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Nitpicky enough to please film-history nerds but lively in a way that should tickle the merely curious, Elijah Drenner’s informative history of exploitation movies, American Grindhouse, may preach only to the converted. Pity, because while the doc relies heavily on static bloviation, it also deftly traces the lineage of cheapjack, self-distributed cinematic slop to the enduring indie boom. Drenner covers all the bases, from roadshow "hygiene" crypto-porn to nudies, roughies, biker flicks, and beyond. Schlock luminaries like the swaggering, very funny Fred Williamson and gore impresario Herschell Gordon Lewis turn up to add color (and, in Lewis’ case, severely overestimate their influence). A few clued-in critics also drop in to provide context. Clips abound, and Drenner doesn’t skimp on money shots: The climax of 1945's birth-of-a-baby megahit Mom and Dad is here in all its clinical ickiness. (NR) MARK HOLCOMB
Sept. 12-15, 7 & 9 p.m., 2011