While not overstaying its welcome, this film does come close to milking its narrative over-long and reaching its conclusion. When the dust settles, the two characters manage to survive. A lengthy fight ensues in which our questionable heroes hold their own against what, it turns out, is an army of vampires in every shape and size imaginable. Clooney is not entirely convincing in his role as the homicidal killer/bad-as he portrays, while Tarantino is believable as the homicidal psycho he represents here.įrom Dusk Till Dawn saves its payoff until almost the end of the movie when all hell breaks loose with the discovery that The Titty Twister is a nest of vampires and that everyone that works there is a blood-sucking card-carrying representative of the living dead. The acting and how dialogue get delivered areare alsareo reminiscent of the seventies style. The cast also features a much younger-looking Machete as the club’s bartender. Joining him is Tom Savini, legendary makeup, prosthetic artist, and actor as a whip-carrying badass that enters the fray on the humans’ side. In keeping with the film’s tribute to the seventies, the cast includes a couple of stars from that era, like Fred Williamson, a football player who who who transitioned into a blacksploitation movie star. It stars Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Tarantino, and Juliette Lewis. Not familiar with this title? Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 American action horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. From Dusk Till Dawn also boasts a terrific soundtrack. While this location and several other things about this film are cliched, this is an impressive set, where most of the movie’s action takes place and where Dusk Till Dawn shifts gears from a cliched crime drama into a cliched horror movie. Once there, they end up at the most prominent, most cliche location of all – the road-house/biker-bar/truck-stop in the middle of nowhere with a huge sign announcing its name as The Titty Twister. The film spends its first half teaching and defining the characters and their relationships as they cross Mexico. As the plot develops, the film arranges for their paths to collide inevitably. This film’s narrative is full of cliches and stereotypes, and, as the film continues in this fashion, more characters get introduced. The film goes so far in its imitation of the seventies style of cheesiness so convincing that I had to keep reminding myself this film is not that old.īriskly paced and very entertaining, From Dusk Till Dawn wastes no time unfolding its tawdry tale in the form of a crime drama that introduces two criminal brothers on the run as two of its principal characters who provide the film’s premise, at least it seems that way. Seriously, the people behind this movie went a long way to make this film seem as much like a seventies grindhouse thriller as it is it looks like it, feels like it, and even the dialogue appears genuine (written by Quentin Tarrantino). It’s no secret that Rodriguez and Tarrantino are in love with these types of movies hailing from the seventies. On top of that, it has a hella-cool biker-bar soundtrack and Salma Hayek in a bikini.Robert Rodriguez’s retro-styled From Dusk Till Dawn is a tribute to the ‘B’ grindhouse (or drive-in) films of the seventies, and it looks it to the point of nearly being indiscernible from the real thing. The tough guy dialog continues throughout, the gore level is astounding, and we see via Kate- the preacher's daughter, played by Juliette Lewis- that sometimes a p***ed-off virgin with a crossbow can more than hold her own. All of this can- and *will*, given the right attitude on the part of the viewers- read as a loving high-five to 70s zombie flicks, a homage to the campy fun of those movies. Out of nowhere, it becomes all too clear that these two bad, bad men are not by a longshot the baddest in *this* bar. It's humming along like a typical Tarantino picture, and then- BOOM. From there it takes a turn that many seem to find infuriating but I personally find highly entertaining. They're supposed to meet a partner at a bar called The Titty Twister, and once they get there madness ensues. Along the way they pick up a preacher played by Harvey Keitel and his two kids. ![]() George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino are the Gecko brothers, two bad, bad men on their way to Mexico. Anyone trying to do a 'serious review' of this movie needs to lighten up.
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