From Dusk Till Dawn [Region 2] | ![From Dusk Till Dawn [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5152VKMAJEL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino, Ernest Liu
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Rating:  252 reviews
Sales Rank: 285886
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321901345148
ASIN: B00004CXID
Theatrical Release Date: January 19, 1996
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From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi, Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their bloody wake. Then they hijack a mobile home driven by a former Baptist minister (Harvey Keitel) who quit the church after his wife's death and hit the road with his two children (played by Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Heading to Mexico with their hostages, the infamous Gecko brothers arrive at the Titty Twister bar to rendezvous for a money drop, but they don't realize that they've just entered the nocturnal lair of a bloodthirsty gang of vampires! With not-so-subtle aplomb, Rodriguez and Tarantino shift into high gear with a nonstop parade of gore, gunfire, and pointy-fanged mayhem featuring Salma Hayek as a snake-charming dancer whose bite is much worse than her bark. If you're a fan of Tarantino's lyrical dialogue and pop-cultural wit, you'll have fun with the road-movie half of this supernatural horror-comedy, but if your taste runs more to exploding heads and eyeballs, sloppy entrails and morphing monsters, the second half provides a connoisseur's feast of gross-out excess. Bon appétit! --Jeff Shannon
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Tarantino Script and Texas, _____ yeah 83% February 1, 2010
Quentin Tarantino Fan (nowhere)
From Dusk Dill Dawn is a movie that kind of unfairly goes undermined in the wake of more popular Tarantino movies like Pulp Fiction or Inglourious Basterds, but this collaboration of a Tarantino screenplay (with many of his trademarks) and another independent film maker Robert Rodriguez (known for his graet action scenes and stylish Texican feel) is a great pairing that made a fairly underrated movie that some critics didn't quite get. I like it a lot better than the other Tarantino written movie, True Romance, mainly because the premise is much cooler, Tarantino wrote it later in his career, and Rodriguez's directing style does a lot more for me than Tony Scott. From Dusk Till Dawn isn't quite the genre blender as other Tarantino movies are, but it's still a wild mix, a mix of exploitation style graphic gore, vampire horror (though this movie really isn't that scary)
CHARACTERS AND ACTING 16/20
Once again, Tarantino creates another strong set of colorful characters that makes all of his movies so memorable. The Gecko Brothers are Tarantino's pair of high class criminals with distinct personalities that really offset each other. They are believable as brothers (some of their bickering is funny), and Tarantino, for some reason, makes his part of the brothers extremely believable in being creepy (he did the same thing with role in Planet Terror). I kind of shudder when he's alone with the hostage and Jacob's daughter, which doesn't happen often in movies (yes, I admit I'm a little jaded). The protagonists, a single dad and his two children, are not as memorable as the bad guys, but they have likeable and moral traits that really add some heart to this movie. The supporting characters are among the more colorful and memorable, and the vampires are awesome. As another reviewed stated, these vampires aren't $#%y, these beasts are some ugly mofos, with huge ugly teeth and a beast like appearance. And everybody's favorite cowboy police officer, Earl Mccgraw appears once again, this time to talk about the obivously hot day. Oh, and Selma Hayek as a dancer.
The acting in this movie is great, and despite the fact that George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, and possibly everybody else except Tarantino doesn't capture my interest outside of their work in film (I don't give a rats @$$ about their personal life), all of them do a great job in making all of the characters likeable, interesting, and memorable, no doubt more colorful and strong characters to add to the Tarantino-verse. Great cast, and really, how can you not love special effects wizard Tom Savini as a Sex Machine with, literally, a chain-gun for a D!)%. If that doesn't scream fun for the entire family, I don't know what does (Sorry Wheelchair Assassin, I had to use that line).
PLOT 7/10
I'll admit that this movie's plot really isn't that interesting, and the first part of the movie is nothing more than a simple crime story. Two brothers on the run will become electric chair material if they don't get to Mexico, so they kidnap a Priest and his two children. They decide to hide out in a strip club in order to get information on how to cross over into Mexico. Needless to say, the strip club is filled with vampires, so it's up to them to trust each other and get out alive. What will happen (actually, it might surprise you)? No points for guessing!
Is it a bad story? No. Just remember that this movie would be nothing if it wasn't for Tarantino's script, the cool art direction, and Robert Rodriguez's input. Maybe that's why the sequels were really, really, bad.
DIALOGUE 9/10
This is one of Tarantino's most underrated writing, really. Being that it was written after pulp Fiction, it's twice as fun as that movie was so that kind of nails it right there. Aside from the extremely quotable dialogue, the general dialogue is electric, like Reservoir Dogs was, supercharged with a great ear for hearing things in exciting ways. And the lines in here are just great, and why they are not used more often among Tarantino fans really bites (no pun intended). "Simon Says sit the _____ down". "I said Plant Yourself. Plants don't talk." The whole pu$$y speech. "Well your best better get a _____ of alot better, or you are gonna feel a ______ of a lot _________ worse", "Welcome to Slavery", "No thanks, I already had a wife". "What's in mexico", "Mexicans". "If you try to run, I've got six little friends and they can all run faster than you". Gah, I could go on and on.
And besides, a line that goes along the lines of: "Do you know what they say about me? I suck!" would be incredibly stupid and corny beyond belief if done by anybody else, but Tarantino and Cheech Marin somehow pull it off and make it work wonders. That dserves props.
ACTION SCENES 9/10
Even though the first part of the movie is kind of low key, it still opens up with a great action sequence (which involves watching a man burn alive) and a hole through the hand that makes Natural Born Killers an even more pointless watch. However, it picks up near the end, and a laugh out loud and awesome romp ensues for the rest of the movie (gotta love the ending as well. No I'm not going to spoil it). When the vampires strike (and the scene before), blood and mayhem ensue for a long time, with limbs everywhere, heads going off (there was even a cut scene where a vampire bites off a patrons head with her stomach as a mouth), decapitations, and a copious amount of flowing blood. One thing that really makes the action scenes worth watching is the way they destroy, as they melt in one of the most sickly amazing ways. Their flesh rots away, and they catch on fire. Oh yeah, and did I mention Sex Machine's gun?
DIRECTING AND STYLE 9/10
Robert Rodriguez didn't have much of the flash back then as he does now with films such as Planet Terror and Sin City, but he still could direct anyway possible. ANd From Dusk Till Dawn, despite written by Tarantino, sometimes feels like a movie by Robert instead of Tarantino. I'll admit his directing in the movie isn't as dazzling as Paul Thomas Anderson or Martin Scorsese, but he gets the job done. Good job (Come on. I had to mention something).
However, it's the style of From Dusk Till Dawn that makes it stand out, and this in turn comes from Robert Rodgriguez. I've already mentioned the kick @$$ vampires, but what I love about Rodriguez is the way he uses southern elements into a fun, celebrative whole that doesn't mock the south like some other idiotic film makers would. The soundtrack is great, with ZZ Top, his own band Tito and the Tarantula (who are actually pretty good), guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan (anybody who can make Mary Had a Little Lamb sound good has talent), and THe Blasters (the theme song), among others. It makes Texas a place you want to stay because of it's great style (I do like Texas despite the fact that they voted for Bush), and as somebody who does think Texas has great virtues, I do appreciate the style very much(though I am NOT a wannabe Texan, don't worry about that). The look of the film is graet, and you will feel very invited by the locations used in the movie.
As far as Tarantino works go, this is my pick for his most underrated writing, it's more kinetic and outgrageous than the kind of slow (but still great) Jackie Brown, and the somewhat underdeveloped True Romance. While this movie does delve into an exploitation flick, it's gross, but utterly fun. When watching vampires like this cause bloodshed, who needs story? With it's low price and good special features, From Dusk Till Dawn is not worth passing up. All Tarantino fans need to watch, or more likely, own this one.
 I honestly don't understand how someone could dislike this movie January 19, 2010
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you want a movie with a great cast, this is it: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, consistently hilarious Cheech Marin, Juliette Lewis, Fred Williamson, the gorgeous Salma Hayek, Quentin Tarantino, Danny Trejo (who, like Luis Guzman, always makes a movie better), legendary makeup artist Tom Savini (aka Sex Machine), and Kelly Preston even has a bit part! Some may not be fans of Tarantino as an actor, but there is no denying that the power this cast has easily overshadows Tarantino's limits, and would probably even cover for Keanu Reeves. Maybe.
If you want a visceral gore-fest, this is it: vampire parts fly in gory, green explostions; whole people explode, arms and next get gouged, stakes get rammed, and there's even a scene where Fred Williamson literally rips out a person's heart. This is a graphically violent film for the lovers of over the top violence. If your primary reason for watching CSI is SPECIFICALLY to see blood spatter (read: blood showers), then this might be up your alley.
If you want a surreal, exploitative movie made explicitly for the thrills, this is it: a Holy Water super-soaker, vampires of all shapes and sizes, a penis-revolver, a shotgun/table leg cross, perhaps the most attractive collection of hookers and dancers ever seen (especially in a grungy P.O.S. bar just over the U.S. - Mexican border), and a corpse guitar are enough to cause a laugh-riot and sensory overload, sure to satiate even the most impatient movie-goer.
If you want action-adventure, this is it: Psychopathic and violent, Brothers Seth (Clooney) and Richard (Tarantino) Gecko are wreaking havoc on their way towards a rendezvous with their contact in a run-down Mexican strip-joint/brothel/bar. Along the way they murder and pillage, then take a family - Jakob Fuller (Keitel), daughter Kate (Lewis), and Jakob's adopted son - hostage to add the tension. Determining who will survive the ordeal is difficult as is, but when the group finally descends upon the "Titty Twister" (the bar), and the vampire strippers and truckers begin to show their teeth, the action goes to eleven almost immediately after pulling up a barstool.
Add in Tarantino's famous tongue-twisting dialogue and nearly perfect screenplay, direction from Robert Rodriguez that keeps the movie rocking, superb camerawork, extras pouring out of the DVD case (commentary from Tarantino and Rodriguez, music videos, deleted scenes, bios, etc.), and THE most seductive table-top dance scene in movie history (courtesy of Salma Hayek), and the result is one best guilty pleasure movies ever made, and just a great time overall. I actually pity you if you can't shut the critical analysis portion of your brain off long enough to enjoy this movie.
Blood and gore and offbeat high energy. Outrageous and wonderful! January 17, 2010
Linda Linguvic (New York City)
This 1996 classic is not usually my kind for film because the description included the word "vampires". But it was starring Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis. It was also on cable TV and was certainly worth a look-see. Well, it sure was something different for me. And I must say I wound up loving it.
The film starts with George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino as a pair of bank robber brothers on the lam. They stop by a liquor store and Quentin Tarantino brutally murders the clerk and a cop. Immediately we see he is the demented one and throughout the film George Clooney tries to rein him in. Well, the film gets more complicated when the brothers kidnap a family driving a mobile home and force them to sneak them over the Mexican border. Harvey Keitel is cast as a former pastor who has lost his faith and is taking his two children, Julliette Lewis and Ernest Liu, on a vacation to Mexico. So far, this seems like a formulaic gangster flick.
And then the group stops at a weird and wild Mexican strip joint where Clooney and Tarantino are supposed to meet up with a connection. This is just the beginning of a whole new aspect of this weird and wonderful film. All the dancers are gorgeous, especially Selma Hayek who is the star of the show. But then we find out that everyone, including all the bartenders, dancers and assorted customers are really vampires. And that's when the film really gets creepy. The next scene seems to go on forever with blood and gore and offbeat high energy. It is so strange that it actually becomes fun to watch.
Perhaps I would have hated this film if it was produced by a lesser talent. But it held me captive with its fast-paced explosive special effects. There were times when I actually laughed out loud at its unique outrageousness. That's why I must recommend it.
From Dusk Till Dawn January 5, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
The notorious Gecko Brothers, two of America's most dangerous criminals, are on the run from the Texas police and the FBI after a crime spree through the Southwest. Across the border in Mexico, the mysterious Carlos offers sanctuary to criminals on the lam, but first they must slip past the border patrol. Enter the Fuller family: Jacob, a minister who has lost his faith and his children, the vulnerable teenage Kate and her younger brother Scott, on a road trip in their new R.V. The Gecko Brothers kidnap the Fullers and high-tail it to freedom with the promise to let the family go once they hook up with their criminal connection in Mexico. From dusk till dawn, is a weird, but unique movie in it's genre. It's entertaining.
Fun Vampire Stuff! December 6, 2009
Daniel A. Foster (Falmouth, MA, USA)
George Clooney (BATMAN & ROBIN), Harvey Keitel (RESERVOIR DOGS), Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION), Juliette Lewis (CAPE FEAR), Salma Hayek (DESPERADO), Tom Savini (DAWN OF THE DEAD), Fred Williamson (SILENT HUNTER), Danny Trejo (THE DEVIL'S REJECTS), Cheech Marin (CHEECH & CHONG'S UP IN SMOKE), Kelly Preston (TWINS), John Saxon (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Michael Parks (STRANGER BY NIGHT), John Hawkes (NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW) and introducing Ernest Liu star in the Tarantino/Rodriguez classic; FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. The plot is 2 brothers on the run from the law trying to go to Mexico, in hiding. They encounter a preacher and his 2 kids. The brothers hijack the preacher's RV and go to the Titty Twister bar in the outskirts of Mexico. Before they can save Richie, one of the brothers, they discover the bar is owned by vampires. Now the preacher, Richie's brother; Seth, the preacher's kids, a Vietnam vet and a biker with a gun strapped to his crotch must stop the vampires before they unleash death in Mexico. This movie is full of gore and fun violence, give it a viewing, I beg of you. Infinity out of 5 star rating.
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