If You Like Quentin Tarantino: Here Are Over 200 Films, TV Shows and Other Oddities That You Will Love

by Katie Rife

(If You Like). If You Like Quentin Tarantino... draws on over 60 years of cinema history to crack the Tarantino code and teach readers to be confidently conversant in the language of the grindhouse and the drive-in. What fans love about director Quentin Tarantino is the infectious enthusiasm that's infused into every frame of his films. And Tarantino films lend themselves exceptionally well to reference and recommendation, because each, itself, is a dense collage of references and recommendations. Spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation, revenge sagas, car-chase epics, samurai cinema, film noir, kung fu, slasher flicks, war movies, and today's neo-exploitation There's an incredible range of vibrant and singularly stylish films to discover. If You Like Quentin Tarantino... is an invitation to connect with a cinematic community dedicated to all things exciting, outrageous, and unapologetically badass.

Genres: Film

194 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2012

Reviews

[Horror DNA · Rating 4 out of 5]

If You Like Quentin Tarantino...(IYLQT) has a subtitle of "Here are Over 200 Films, TV Shows, and Other Oddities That You Will Love", so right away you know what you are getting into. Perhaps other than Spike Lee, there are few directors alive today that polarize film fans like Quentin Tarantino. For as many fans that love his work, it seems there are just as many that hate him. On one side you have the rabid fans who defend the...homages...found in Tarantino's movies, where the detractors (who are just as rabid) call it nothing more than thievery. I stand somewhere in the middle. I seriously question if Tarantino could make a film free of the lifting of scenes from lesser known movies, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying his films. I own all from his catalog and watch them now and again, but I have to call it like I see it. Many times, the coolest scene you'll find in a Tarantino flick was plucked from a movie the general public has not seen, much less heard of. This is something that has been (and will be) discussed ad nauseam on message boards, and I'd rather have not even brought it up, but I needed to in order to discuss one glaring problem in author Katherine Rife's otherwise fantastic book.

You can read Steve's full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

My personal thoughts of Tarantino aside, this is a must have book for fans of exploitation/grindhouse/all-around awesome movies as Katie Rife goes into great detail on the movies that inspired his movies. You can read my full review at HorrorTalk.com.