In Death Proof the first restaurant (bar?) has numerous film posters on the wall that appear to be Spanish-language exploitation films. Can anybody ID them? I tried to remember titles to look up later but almost immediately forgot them.

The restaurant is the Texas Chili Parlor near the Capital (more of a restarant, than bar, though they do serve beer), however, I know nothing about the posters :rolleyes:

One of the posters was for a Spanish release of TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE -- I caught Sean Connery's name on it. One of the others was for a film written by Santiago Moncada, but even when looking over his IMDb page, none of the titles stand out as a possibility, thought TRAFFICANTES DE PANICO would have been the best thematic choice.

I saw Giuliano Gemma's name on a poster on the wall behind where Sydney Poitier was sitting, but I couldn't make out the film.

Not that there was anywhere to put them, but the mention of Gemma made me think that the only thing lacking in GRINDHOUSE was the presence of some EuroCult representatives (unless you count Udo Kier in the Rob Zombie trailer). Some Ray Lovelock or Giovanni Lombardo Radice or Franco Nero would've been cool. I guess we have to wait to see Edwige Fenech and Ruggero Deodato in HOSTEL 2.

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It's a good thing that frame from DEEP RED sneaked into the "Thanksgiving" trailer appeared AFTER "Planet Terror," or I would have spent that whole part of the movie expecting Hugo Stiglitz to come bursting through a door.

Not sure what you're referring to - do you perhaps mean the DON'T!!! trailer?

It could well have been in the DON'T trailer.

I also noticed the Tarzan/Sean Connery poster.

In the GRINDHOUSE “making of” coffee table book, production designer Caylah Eddleblute says, “We shot our exteriors at the actual location. But we built the interior on stage so we could have control over the environment…[Tarentino] brought with him to Austin stacks of 70s posters from his personal collection…But he really hit the jackpot when he took a walk down Congress one weekend and stopped by Tesoro’s, a shop just blocks from the Capital. Quentin cleaned them out. They had a treasure trove of old Mexican movie lobby cards.”

I don’t remember if these cards are visible in the film, but one of the photos in the book shows a wall with Mexican lobby cards for MANANA SERAN HOMBRES (1961) (which according to IMDb was a youth comedy directed by Alejandro Galindo with René Cardona Jr. in the cast) and ELLA, LUCIFER Y YO (1953) (which IMDb calls a comedy-fantasy directed by Miguel Morayta with Sara Montiel, Abel Salazar, and Carlos López Moctezuma.) (IMDb also has an informative “User Comment” on the latter movie.)

The wall also has a poster with a portrait of Charles Bronson from RED SUN and a poster with a silhouette of Bob Dylan.

There's a GRINDHOUSE "making of" coffee table book?

The Sundance Channel series ICONOCLASTS had an episode teaming Quentin Tarantino and Fiona Apple, recorded in Austin as GRINDHOUSE was being made. Some of their conversation takes place on the DEATH PROOF "first restaurant" set, and I recall several (all?) of the posters/lobby cards were up. Quentin's office (or editing room?) there is also shown, and I recall some cool posters on the wall in there, as well.

The episode will apparently run again this Sunday night, if anyone wants to go poster-spotting:

Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple
Next Showing: April 29, 9:00PM (EST)

You know, I was talking about the relative failure of GRINDHOUSE with my wife, and I used this as an example of how poorly-handled I think the marketing was on this picture. Nobody knows that this book is out there (unlike, say, the 300 coffee table book, which I see cross-promoted in the "graphic novel" section of every book store I frequent). For that matter, I've yet to talk to anyone who knew that there are 2 soundtrack CDs available. Wouldn't it have made sense to spend some of the marketing budget on setting up GRINDHOUSE endcaps in Borders, B&N, maybe Fry's and Best Buy, and maybe an Amazon page on the online front; and partner on the expenses with DVD distributors who release films associated with the concept to share endcap space? It automatically tells the story of GRINDHOUSE without having to explain the concept (if someone sees the book, the 2 CDs, ZOMBIE, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE, STREET TRASH, and for the love of Pete, the 42ND STREET FOREVER series of discs on the same endcap, the concept becomes pretty self-explanatory even in the regions where the Weinsteins claim that the film did poorly). It raises awareness of the movie, explains the concept, exposes relatively obscure films to people who might be interested in the movie and who might not think to seek out something like THRILLER, and so on. Seems like a win-win situation to me.

GRINDHOUSE marketing info:

I’ve seen the “Making Of” book and the “Death Proof” script (which everybody already downloaded for free) at Books-a-Million and Barnes and Noble. The Fangoria site has a big Miramax book banner ad. During the week before the film opened, Tarentino, Rodriquez, McGowan, Dawson, and some others did book signings in NYC. Autographed copies went for $300 plus on eBay. There are GRINDHOUSE keychains, T-shirts, sneakers, caps, lunchboxes, lighters, dolls, wallets, tote bags, flasks, necklaces, pins, and stickers available. I’ve seen them at a local comic store and a record shop. It can all be purchased at amazon.com. You can view them at: www.necaonline.com

Given the disappointing financial earinings of GRINDHOUSE, I wonder if the Weinsteins might want to rethink their exclusive deal with Blockbuster for rentals? It wouldn't hurt them to get the title into other rental situations, such as Hollywood Video for one.

I haven't seen GRINDHOUSE (it will be a while until it opens in Sweden) but what a great excuse to post some Mexican movie paper... :D

Good stuff, Lars Erik. We need more of this on Mobius. :)