He’s not helped much by some disappointingly effects. Rodriguez wrings plenty of tension from seemingly mundane scenes, notably the border crossing scene (“God damn, that was intense!”) but seems less certain with the vampire stuff later in the film. Like a lot of Tarantino’s work it’s excessively talky and not as clever as it thinks it is and while it’s a lot of silly fun it might have been more so with some judicious trimming and with more of a B-movie budget than the mid-price A budget it’s afforded here. It feels like two entirely different films bolted together not entirely convincingly. When we get to the club the film descends into a generic gore film with ropey make-up effects and showers of blood replacing the very real tension and suspense of the first half. Strangely, the first half – an old-fashioned men-on-the-run thriller – is the more interesting. But the club is staffed by shape-changing vampires and soon the brothers, the family and assorted patrons are fighting for their lives against a seemingly unstoppable horde of the undead.įrom Dusk Till Dawn is a film of two very different halves that don’t particularly sit together all that well. ![]() The brothers take them across the Mexico border to a remote and raucous strip club named the Titty Twister en route to the criminal sanctuary at El Rey. Murderous bank robbers Seth (George Clooney) and Richie Gecko (Tarantino) abduct the Fuller family, Jacob (Harvey Keitel), a pastor living through a crisis of faith following the death of his wife, teenage daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) and adopted son Scott (Ernest Liu) who are on a road trip in their RV. The result is a fun but uneven attempt to marry a Tarantinoesque crime thriller with an early Peter Jackson-style bloodbath. But the success of Tarantino’s directorial debut Reservoir Dogs (1992) saw the script being dusted down, spruced up and placed in the hands of Robert Rodriguez, still flying high from the success of his own debut El Mariachi (1992) and it’s semi-sequel/remake Desperado (1995). ![]() For whatever reason, Kurtzman opted not to make the film and the script was forgotten. In 1990, when he was still working behind the counter in a video rental shop in Manhattan Beach, California, Quentin Tarantino won his first script writing commission when effects maestro Robert Kurtzman had him write a piece for him titled From Dusk Till Dawn.
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