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Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Lee Montgomery: Death Proof – Grindhouse

Mary Elizabeth Winstead & 1972 Ford Mustang

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is known for her scream queen roles in the horror films: Final Destination 3, Death Proof, The Thing, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Death Proof

Cast: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zoë Bell

Three friends – Arlene, Shanna, and radio disc jockey "Jungle" Julia Lucai – spend a night in Austin, Texas celebrating Julia's birthday, unknowingly followed by a mysterious man in a souped-up 1971 Chevy Nova. The man, Stuntman Mike, stalks the young women with his "death proof car", eventually killing all three. Fourteen months later, Stuntman Mike, now in Tennessee and driving a 1969 Dodge Charger, tails another group of young women – Lee, Abernathy, Kim, and stuntwoman Zoë – a group of women working below the line in Hollywood, whose Stock 1970 Dodge Challenger proves a worthy adversary.

Related Pages: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan

Grindhouse: Planet Terror and Death Proof

Grindhouse - Planet Terror

Grindhouse (2007)

Director: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zoë Bell

Planet Terror

After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called "sickos" threaten to take over the whole town and the world.

Death Proof

In Austin, Texas, girlfriends Julia Lucai, Arlene, Shanna and Lanna Frank meet in a bar to drink, smoke and make out with their boyfriends before traveling alone to Lake LBJ to spend the weekend together. They meet the former Hollywood stunt man, Mike, who takes Pam out in his "death-proof" stunt car. Pam soon discovers Mike's secret. Fourteen months later, Mike turns up in Lebanon, Tennessee. Abernathy "Abbie" works in the make-up department on a film set. Zoë Bell, Kim and Lee are all chased by him but the girls are tough and decide to pay-back the attack.

Related Pages: Grindhouse, Kurt Russell, Quentin Tarantino, Rosario Dawson, Josh Brolin

Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike: Grindhouse Movie Figure - Death Proof

Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike: Grindhouse Movie

Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike: Grindhouse

Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike: Little is known about Stuntman Mike, except that he hangs around the Texas Chili Parlor and may or may not have been a professional stuntman on various TV shows during the 1960s and 1970s.

Death Proof

Three friends – Arlene, Shanna, and radio disc jockey "Jungle" Julia Lucai – spend a night in Austin, Texas celebrating Julia's birthday, unknowingly followed by a mysterious man in a souped-up 1971 Chevy Nova. The man, Stuntman Mike, stalks the young women with his "death proof car", eventually killing all three. Fourteen months later, Stuntman Mike, now in Tennessee and driving a 1969 Dodge Charger, tails another group of young women – Lee, Abernathy, Kim, and stuntwoman Zoë – a group of women working below the line in Hollywood, whose Stock 1970 Dodge Challenger proves a worthy adversary.

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Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block: Grindhouse Movie Figure - Planet Terror

Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block: Grindhouse Movie

Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block: Grindhouse

Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block: The estranged daughter of Sheriff Earl McGraw. Dakota is also the wife of Dr. William Block, with whom she shares a son, Tony Block.

Planet Terror

In a rural town in Texas, go-go dancer Cherry Darling decides to quit her low-paying job and find another use for her numerous "useless" talents. She runs into mysterious ex-boyfriend El Wray at the Bone Shack, a restaurant owned by J.T. Hague. Meanwhile, a group of military officials, led by the demented Lt. Muldoon, are making a business transaction with a scientist named Abby for mass quantities of a deadly biochemical agent known as DC2 (codename "Project Terror"). Muldoon learns that Abby has an extra supply on hand and attempts to take him hostage. Abby intentionally releases the gas into the air. The gas reaches the town and turns its residents into deformed bloodthirsty, man-eating psychopaths, mockingly referred to as "sickos" by the surviving humans. The infected townspeople are treated by the sinister Dr. William Block and his abused, neglected anesthesiologist wife Dakota at a local hospital. As the patients quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night, struggling to find safety.

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Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling: Grindhouse Movie Figure - Planet Terror

Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling: Grindhouse Movie

Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling: Grindhouse

Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling: A go-go dancer. After Cherry's leg is torn off by sickos, she is given a special prosthetic leg in the form of a high powered machine gun.

Planet Terror

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead

"Mary Elizabeth Winstead is best known for her scream queen roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas, and Death Proof. She also had a lead role alongside Michael Cera in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Her earliest national exposure was in television, including work on the soap opera Passions, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. Winstead will also star in the upcoming The Thing prequel, set for release in October 2011."