# Grind House: Who's stoked?

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**Created:** [August 7, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grind-house-whos-stoked/196242 "2006-08-07T04:28:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grind-house-whos-stoked/196242/1 "2006-08-07T04:28:50Z")

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> **[Updated! GRINDHOUSE news from Comic-Con! Snake Plissken to be Tarantino's...](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/23947)**
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> Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I'm right in the middle of the GRINDHOUSE panel, but I had to post this up. Great news! Quentin Tarantino announced Kurt Russell as playing the slasher, Mad Man Mike, the baddie in DEATH PROOF, his segment in...

  

> **[Grindhouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grind_House)**
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> A grindhouse or action house is an American term for a theater that mainly shows exploitation films. According to historian David Church, this theater type was named after the "grind policy", a film-programming strategy dating back to the early 1920s which continuously showed films at cut-rate ticket prices that typically rose over the course of each day. This exhibition practice was markedly different from the era's more common practice of fewer shows per day and graduated pricing for differe

Seriously, this is going to be the absolute coolest thing ever. Tarantino and Rodriguez doing a double feature. Yeahhhh!