Grindhouse theatres were WONDERFUL!
They florished from the 50s~early 80s.
Their admision prices were below average.
They were older theatres, often grungy.
They showed double & even triple bills of horror, B~action,
& kung fu movies.
Some grindhouse theatres even alternated with porn!
They were great fun to go to!
Imagine, years after DS ended, going to a beat-up old theatre in Times Square.
For a buck, I sat through Hitchcock's Psycho, (my first viewing of it) Hammer's
Frankenstein & the Monster From Hell, and HODS!
The theatre needed a good scrubbing, but I didn't care, what a fun triple bill!!!!
Two days later, the same theatre was showing 3 kung fu films. Two days after that, they ran 3 blaxploitaton films (black action films from the 70s)
The film Grindhouse pays tribute to those theatres by re-creating a grindhouse double bill.
Those were the days......
I'll never forget them!
David
