Before Machete was a real movie, it was a fake movie. For their 2007 double-bill Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino had four trailers created for nonexistent films to run alongside their movie, partly to re-create the feel of a 1970s B-movie experience, mostly just to score a few laughs. They hired film-directing buddies to make three of these, but Rodriguez himself wrote and directed the trailer for the exploitation flick Machete. (Tagline: “They fucked with the wrong Mexican!”)