Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Volume 1 - Double Feature
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Publisher Description
Literature: overrated. Morality: expendable. Midnight is right for some over-the-top sex and violence, and this Grindhouse double feature is packing the aisles with blood 'n' guts and T 'n' A! Gasp as insatiable alien insects overtake a Southern town with only a one-eyed deputy to stop them in "Bee Vixens from Mars"! Shudder as the sexy lady convicts of Block E revolt against an insane warden in "Prison Ship Antares"! Tremble in anticipation at the gallery of shocking "coming attractions"! Get filthy with this unique experience from Alex de Campi's Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight!
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Grindhouse movies, made-on-the-cheap, action- and gore-packed B-films, were the fodder of cheap-seat cinemas and drive-ins up through the '80s. Directors like Quentin Tarantino repopularized the genre in the 2000s, and, here, writer De Campi (Smoke/Ashes) and a gang of lively artists among them Francesco Francavilla and Dan Panosian bring their bloodshed and havoc to the comics page. Like a classic midnight movie show, it's a double feature, filled with sex, violence, fast cars and fast women even "coming attractions" in the form of a grindhouse-style movie poster gallery. The first story puts the "bee" in "B-movie": southern belles, transformed into honey-sucking killer bees, swarm their small town wreaking over-the-top carnage until the town's single savvy police officer, a one-eyed female cop, gets called in. The second tale is set aboard a prison spaceship bound for exile in a distant solar system; the all-nubile, all-female (of course) prisoners riot against the clone guards and their sadistic warden in a bloody breakout. It's all just about as violent, outrageous, and in-your-face as you'd expect from the title which also makes it a adrenaline-filled thrill ride, packed with explosions, intestines, and drily witty quips. Mature content.