31 Nightmares: From Dusk till Dawn · 3:37am Oct 29th, 2014
This movie begins as Tarantino-esque crime drama. Horrific brutality interspersed with pop culture references and bits of dark humor. We meet up with the Gecko Brothers, Seth (played by George Clooney) and Richard (played by Quentin Tarantino) are pair of career criminals on the run after a brutal bank robbery gone horribly wrong.
This is largely because Richard is a fucking goddamn grade A psychopathic motherfucker, and goddamn is Tarantino good at playing a creepy fucking rapist lunatic.
As the two rampage their way down to the Mexican border, leaving ruin and bloodshed in their wake they meet up with a former pastor and his kids, forcing them to act as their cover as the two head to a notorious bar known as the Titty Twister.
The place drips with sleaze. A lot of fiction goes on about the locations themselves being a character in their own right, but in this case I have to agree. This is a place where scumbags hang out, and you know it from the first moment you see the giant neon breasts and hear Cheech Marin shouting about all the sorts of pussy available there in what has to be one of my favorite fucking pieces of dialogue ever put to film.
Then the fucking vampires show up and shit goes completely fucking nuts. It’s an amazing tonal gear shift from gritty crime drama to action horror, and I love it.
That is what makes the movie memorable to me, and thus I do not consider it one that is especially good for sequels. Two were made, and I don’t really consider them worth speaking of.
Robert Rodriguez recently started his own television network, and one of the big draws was a tv series made out of From Dusk Till Dawn. I have yet to sit down and watch it so I will refrain from comment.
Tomorrow we look at something a bit… meatier.
>From Duck Till Dawn
2562368 Yeah just noticed that. Will be fixed in a minute.