The Grindhouse Massacre

I am a fan of exploitation films, especially the grindhouse films. However, this to me felt like a cheap homage to them, cheap in a bad way, mind you. I wasn’t really expecting much, and I wasn’t really impressed by the film. It has to look cheap and grainy, that’s part of the grindhouse aesthetic. But, it looked like it was filmed on a modern camera, then converted to grainy in post-production. That left it feeling too modern and, another major thing about this film is that it’s not very sleazy. These films were very sleazy, probably the definition of sleazy. They had violence and sex by the bucketload. This has some violence, which isn’t very graphic, apart from one scene in a toilet which is greatly graphic. However, apart from that, it looks badly cheap. If it was not trying to be a grindhouse film, then it would have seemed worse because the acting was a bit better than amateur and most of the effects were shoddy. It looked like it was trying to imitate the grindhouse feel, did look like it was filmed with love for the sub-genre, but it wasn’t nearly as good as those films it was trying to become, which is sad. It’s not a bad film, but it could have been better.