Gory, sleazy, sexy and disgusting in all the right ways, Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a pitch-perfect ode to '70s grindhouse films that never ceases to entertain.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 1, 2024

A clever ode to Grindhouse films of the 60s and 70s, Robert Rodriguez leans heavily into gross-out fratboy humour, but gives all of the best roles to the badass women who survive the apocalypse long after the men have died off.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 26, 2024

Planet Terror is pure adrenaline... simple entertainment for fans of these kinds of films that only promised two things: sex and blood. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2023

It's the ideal amalgamation of horror, comedy, and outright randomness that makes Planet Terror iconic.

| Mar 10, 2021

Rodriguez just wants viewers to have a good time, and it comes across in the film -- which is an extremely affectionate homage to seventies exploitation films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2020

A dull-witted homage to 1970s schlock Grindhouse horror films.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 8, 2017

Packed with hot women, a ninja-like character and zombies, it's the kind of movie a 15-year-old would make with a limitless budget and little concern for ratings. Good thing he knows how to make an incredibly fun movie.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Sep 18, 2013

Planet Terror makes bad movies look good, and that's absolutely a compliment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2012

Deduces that the nudging awareness and recreation of a genre's tropes is enough

| Aug 27, 2009

Some people call this a guilty pleasure %u2013 a silly expression that has been adopted by serious minded critics who apologise for liking overtly commercial movies

| Mar 1, 2008

Too ugly conceptually to be any fun.

| Original Score: C | Feb 14, 2008

Geysers of blood, insinuating camera angles and an extremely playful editing style add to the mayhem, keeping us gasping in horror and laughing at the gleeful excesses on screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Exciting, sexy, gory - in a good way - and frequently laugh-out-loud funny, Rodriguez's zombie exploitation flick is the most fun you'll have in the cinema all year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Won't make any friends outside of B-movie aficionados, and even they might tire of laughing at all the cheapo gore being thrown around.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Dire and dunderheaded.

| Nov 9, 2007

McGowan is a suitably slinky presence as the lead avenger with a machine gun for a leg; blood and pus regularly fill the screen as Rodriguez lets rip with gleeful abandon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Only watch if you have an offbeat sense of humour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2007

A loving testament to exploitation horror cinema and a moronic sop to a certain generation of male film fans' obsession with breasts, guns and gore.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Insanely violent, ludicrously gory and probably as much fun as you'll have in a cinema this year.

| Nov 9, 2007

Following Tarantino's Death Proof, Rodriguez throws his hat into the Grindhouse ring and comes out the clear winner. Impossible not to be charmed by its gross-out effects, bad dialogue and amputee action.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2007