Talk:Grindhouse

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GRINDHOUSES ARE NOT THE SAME THING AS EXPLOITATION FILMS. ONE IS A BUILDING, THE OTHER IS A MOVIE. They should not share an article. Some people believe that the subject of grindhouses is "fully covered" in the article about exploitation films... however, even if two topics are tangentially related, that does not make them the same at all. Wiki has an article about world war 2, and another about hitler. Even though these two topics are intimately related, they should not be merged. Same principle applies here. 70.128.219.137 22:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

please see relevant policy at WP:MERGE / WP:NOT - Wikipedia is not a dictionary; there does not need to be a separate entry for every concept in the universe. For example, "Flammable" and "Non-flammable" can both be explained in an article on Flammability.

Regarding your assertion, a grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. It is also a term used to describe the genre of films that played in such theatres. Grindhouse films are also referred to as "exploitation films." This is fully explained in the "Grindhouse cinema" section of exploitation film.

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Dear Tarantino fans, please note the term "grindhouse" and "grind house" are synonyms that have been in use for decades prior to the film of the same name being released. The topic of "grindhouse" is explicity covered in the "grindhouse cinema" section of the Exploitation film article. For the film, see Grindhouse (film).