![]() ![]() It's bonkers and silly as hell, but once a fan of "From Dusk Till Dawn", you are a fan for life. Hey don't like the film by all means, but failure to understand its genre leanings and homage persuasion is as funny as Cheech Marin is in the movie (one of many awesome "B" cult movie actors in the pic). Honestly you can go to various sites and read people saying the characters are shallow, or the plot is preposterous!! Dear me, it staggers the mind. For it's a key point that "From Dusk Till Dawn" is a damn funny film as well, something that bizarrely many critics have failed to understand. ![]() On it goes really, yet as Rodriguez and Tarantino start thrusting a blunt blade into your stomach, you really should be feeling them also caressing the funny bones in both your arms. Swearing, blood, limbs severed, nudity, violence, sexual references, guns, more violence, more blood, other weapons, lots of teeth, bats, a snake, more violence. Can they make it till dawn and let the daylight be their saviour?. Trouble is, is that "The Titty Twister" isn't no ordinary bar, it's a vampire stronghold and the Geko's - and their newly acquired captives, are on the menu. From here they must make it to a rendezvous point in Mexico - a bar called "The Titty Twister", where they will exchange cash with a friend of Seth's and start their new lives as Mexican civilians. After overcoming a couple of fatal (for others) hiccups, the brothers, in need of a vehicle, kidnap faithless minister Jacob (Harvey Keitel), his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) and adopted son Scott (Ernest Liu). ![]() They are heading for the haven of Mexico with wads of cash garnered from a robbery. The plot, for what's it's worth, sees two criminal brothers, Seth (George Clooney) & Richie Gecko (Tarantino) on the lam after Richie breaks Seth out of prison. There's no surprise element with the film, you get everything that director Robert Rodriguez and writer Quentin Tarantino said you would get - a hard buttocked road movie that turns into a raging "B" horror movie gore fest. I absolutely love "From Dusk Till Dawn", very much one of those films that you either buy into or you don't. It was probably the most fun I had at the cinema back in 1996. If you are a genre fan don't miss it, if you are not you might give it a try and be pleasantly surprised. Clooney's cool performance, the fitting soundtrack, some hilarious moments, Tarantino's fine touches all make this a highly original, quite bloody, vampire adventure. Even the gore is presented in a silly way, making it less gory. If you are able to take it the way it comes, not too serious, there is a good chance you might like it. We have a crime movie to start and a horror comedy, really in the Sam Raimi way, to end. Still, because the movie shifts the way it does it becomes quite original. Especially the second part will find a smaller audience and in a way I was a little curious how the first part would have ended if they kept it as serious as it was. You see how this movie is actually two movies. Now they are a team and face vampires as their opponents. The Fullers and Geckos survive together with a guy who calls himself Sex Machine (Tom Savini) and a guy named Frost (Fred Williamson). Not long after they are inside it is revealed that every crew member from the bar is actually a vampire, feeding themselves on bikers and truckers that visit the place. So we have the first hour, filled with Tarantino-stuff in its dialogue and references, and then the party arrives at a bar called the Titty Twister. He travels with his adopted son Scott (Ernest Liu) and his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis). Father Jacob (Harvey Keitel) used to be a minister but gave up faith after his wife died in a car crash. That the entire state of Texas and the FBI are looking for them is a problem so they force the Fuller family to bring them across the border with their motor home. We learn they want to reach the Mexican border. They are bank robbers, although they do the occasional killing as well. We see two brothers named Seth (George Clooney) and Richie Gecko (Quentin Tarantino). ![]() This means the first hour is just brutal and bloody, sometimes a little funny, in the 'Pulp Fiction' kind of way. It is brilliant, brutal, bloody, horror, silly and funny the way Sam Raimi's 'The Evil Dead'-series is all those things, the twist here is a screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino. 'From Dusk Till Dawn' is kind of brilliant, brutal, bloody, Tarantino, horror, silly and funny. ![]()
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