Machete appears in the Grindhouse fake trailer.
 Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, home video and exploitation film fandom
The machete was used as a weapon during the Mau Mau rebellion, in the Rwandan Genocide, and in South Africa, particularly in the 1980s and early 1990s when the former province of Natal was wracked by conflict between the African National Congress and the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party

