Product Description

Director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) is back with a rip-roaring, zombie-infested rollercoaster of a movie that "sure as hell keeps you hanging on for the ride" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Bruce Willis, and an all-star cast fight for their lives in the ultimate showdown between an army of flesh-eating mutants and a motley group of rag-tag survivors. Featuring one of the most memorable screen heroines ever and the now-legendary mock Machete trailer, "Planet Terror is as total blast - funny, gory and over the top" (Christy Lemire, Associated Press).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11377 in DVD
• Brand: Planet
• Released on: 2008-12-16
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Spanish, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: German
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 105 minutes

Customer Reviews

Blu Ray Review
I'll forgo a movie review since there's an abundance of them online and there's a good chance you've already seen it. Here's a review of the Blu Ray:

Video: 4/5

This is a grindhouse experience, so the film was given a rough, blemished appearance. Now despite this rough look, the video is still quite sharp and pleasant to see. Grain appearance is just right, not overdone like Spider Man or Weeds 1st Season on Blu Ray. Now if the rough look isn't for you, don't worry: there's a "scratch free" version included which also looks quite nice. I won't lie: although I enjoy this movie, I was worried the scratches/rough look was going to equal nasty picture. But really, it was a pleasant surprise.

Audio: 4.5/5

The audio options include English TrueHD 5.1; Dolby 5.1 English, French and Spanish; Dolby 5.1 English (crowd reaction track)

The high def audio is just as thundering as the surround track found on the DVD release. The surround effects do their job well enough, are immersive as best as an action movie may offer. Bullets whiz by and the flame sounds surround, but the subtle ambiance that makes you look over your shoulder is missing. Nevertheless, the audio is not bad. The crowd reaction track is also a welcome inclusion and something I enjoyed on the DVD release. Perhaps not for everyone, but it makes you feel like you're in the theater again.

Conclusion: If you have the DVD, I'm sure watching it upconverted isn't going to be a huge jump in quality for you. However, if you wish for a scratch free version or a bump in audio, that is what the Blu Ray offers, so give it a rent and see if it's for you.

The best Blu-ray edition of a Tarantino project so far (definitely a 'buy')
What more is there to say about what, in my view, is a brilliant, unashamed exploitation zombie movie that's already a classic? Yes, I know, the Grindhouse double-feature didn't too so well in the theaters but maybe the public wasn't yet ready for such advance cinematographic material. Maybe it still isn't and maybe it will never be. I know that I will never get myself tired of anything Tarantino or Tarantino-related and a movie where Tarantino, if fact plays a part and it's supposed to be the B-movie to Quentin's 'Death Proof' is a Tarantino movie to me (sorry, Robert Rodriguez). Just for the fun of name-dropping, did you know that Fergie (yes THAT Fergie) ends up eaten here? That Bruce Willis falls flat on the floor, as it decomposes? That Carlos Gallardo (El Mariachi) plays the main gunslinger? That Robert Rodriguez kills (the character played by ) his own preschool son - his son plays a part where he ends up dead. That his real-life family doctor actually plays a doctor? There's so much to learn and talk about and it's all on second disk's extra but Rose McGowan absolutely steals the show. She played a relatively short part in Death Proof but her Planet Terror role is likely to be the role of her lifetime. She's simply perfect, sensational, stunningly beautiful and deadly accurate when it comes to shooting with that leg-mounted machine gun.

But, I wasn't planning to talk much about the movie itself. I only wanted to make some brief remarks about the Blu-ray edition of Planet Terror.

To my surprise, Planet Terror goes a lot farther than any of the previous Tarantino-related (yes, I know, it's Robert Rodriguez) Blu-ray releases in actually taking advantage of the Blu-ray technology. A lot farther than Death Proof, Kill Bill or Reservoir Dogs.

Disk one, has TWO versions of the movie. The 'scratched' original and, surprisingly (because Death Proof lacks it) a mostly 'clean' copy. In addition to the 'regular' and the traditional 'commentary' sound track it's possible to select the 'audience reaction track' (available on the 'scratched' version only. Interestingly, the 'clean' version does not include the 'Machete Man' introduction.

The sound track is Dolby TrueHD or Dolby 5.1 in English and it is so on both the 'regular' and the 'audience reaction' tracks. French and Spanish tracks are also available in Dolby 5.1 only. Subtitles are English or Spanish but not in French.

As it is the case with Death Proof, BD Live is one of the options listed as a 'special feature' but, when selected, you are told to that it is not available at this time and to 'check back later'.

The second disk is full of rather interesting featurettes. There's an 11 minute one titled '10-minute film school' where Robert Rodriguez talks about the making of the movie, there are shorts on 'the gals' and the 'boys', extras on the special effects, trailers, etc., etc., etc. and, to my surprise, the quality of extras is quite decent.

Briefly: it goes a long way but not 'all the way' toward taking advantage of Blu-ray, some of the options and features implementation are confusing (see above), for reasons impossible to comprehend it claims to have BD Live but it does not, the second disk, full of extras is actually worth watching.

This edition earns its 4 stars.

Fast, furious and rockin' zombie flick!

A deadly military experiment is accidently released as a gas turns some of the soliders into vicious flesh-eating mutant zombie-esque ghouls that begin to spread a virus through their bite that can turn people into the same creatures. Sexy stripper Cherry Darling (Rose Mcgowan) whom just got her leg ripped apart by those creatures joins forces with a maverick (Freddy Rodriguez), a female smuggler (Naveen Andrews), a restraunt owner (Jeff Fahry) and a female doctor (Mary Shelton) as they must battle every one of those abominations and find out what is behind all this madness.

Co-starring Bruce Willis, Tom Savini, Quentin Tarantino and Josh Brolin this is an electrifying and funny Sci-fi horror action packed rollercoaster ride of a film. Writer-director-producer Robert Rodriguez ("Sin City", "Desperado", "El Mariachi" and "From Dusk Till Dawn") with producer and co-star Quentin Tarantino have conjured up the best of the two stories on 2007's experimental cinematic flick "Grindhouse". It's got lots of great performances including some 70's 16mm style grainy filming including a brief missing reel part to make it seem like the audience is in a grindhouse theater, i also love how the heroine in this movie is very sexy yet original as she's like no other heroine to hit film before yet she kicks ace. This movie is loaded with non-stop action and graphic scenes of gore such as castration, cannibalism, exploding heads, brains exposed including everything but the kitchen sink.

This 2-Disc Blu-Ray set offers awesome surround picture and sound that will rock your home-theater as it's presented in it's uncut and extended version with footage not shown in theaters. There's some great extras like audio commentary, audience reaction track, Trailer, additional scratch free version, BD-live, 10 minute film school featurette, featurettes, reel of casting and poster gallery.

Also recommended: "Night of the Living Dead (1968 and 1990)", "Re-Animator", "Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004)", "Day of the Dead (1985)", "Return of the Living Dead 1 2 and 3", "The Hills Have Eyes (2006)", "Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead)", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (a.k.a. Living Dead at The Manchester Morgue)", "Nightmare City", "Hell of the Living Dead", "Demons", "The Toxic Avenger", "Redneck Zombies", "Scanners", "Fido", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Shaun of the Dead", "Undead", "The Stuff", "Battle Royale", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Tokyo Zombie", "Bio-Zombie", "Tokyo Gore Police", "Wanted", "Heavy Metal", "Evil Dead 2", "Kill Bill 1 and 2", "Dead Heat (1988)", "Cannibal Apocaypse", "Resident Evil Trilogy", "Resident Evil Degeneration", "Akira", "28 Days/28 Weeks Later", "Bad Taste", "Lifeforce", "From Beyond", "Bride of Re-Animator", "Beyond Re-Animator", "Night of the Creeps", "Night of the Comet", "Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)", "The Blob (1988)", "The Dead Next Door" and "American Werewolf in London".