During their heyday, these theaters showed double- and triple-bills from
early morning until late at night, and in many cases on a 24-hour rotation basis.
These bills often changed two or three times a week, so one theater could
easily show between 8 and 12 different films per week. The
grindhouses' insatiable need for new product benefited the curious and eclectic
moviegoer, for he was able to choose from many more films in the Times Square
area than conceivably anywhere else in the world, and as mentioned earlier,
these films came from many different sources, from the established big-budget
Hollywood product to the lower-budget exploitation film, and including obscure
foreign film product that was often shown nowhere else but in Times Square, in
often extremely brief theatrical runs.
