William (Josh Brolin) and Dakota Block (Marley Shelton) are husband-and-wife doctors trying to fight off a spreading infection at a hospital. Meanwhile, a gang of vigilantes tries to take back the town, led by Freddy Rodriguez as a gunslinger known as El Wray and Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan) a go-go dancer who loses a leg and gets a machine gun – of which she manages to fire without having to pull a trigger - in its place.

Planet Terror is indeed a thrill ride, with Rodriguez deliberately scuffing up the print with simulated negative scratches and projector tics (both films are missing frames). Watch out for Michael Biehn and Jeff Fahey, Fergie from Black Eyed Peas and Bruce Willis, who appears in an un-credited role as the leader of the evil military unit.

Next up - after an eight-minute "intermission" for three more tasty trailers - is Tarantino's unapologetically low-brow contribution, Death Proof. This one is characteristically wordy, as the director develops his characters by keeping them chattering away for a painfully long time. In fact, it starts off like a female version of his Reservoir Dogs, with four girls talking about sex and drugs, yet doesn't manage to be quite as hip or cool.