From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)


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Category: rel-1996
All Genres: Action, Horror, Thriller
Release Year: 1996
Country: USA
Runtime: 108
Languages: English, Spanish
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:

  • A terrifying evil has been unleashed. And five strangers are our only hope to stop it.
  • Vampires. No Interviews.
  • From Quentin Tarantino. From Robert Rodriguez. From Dusk Till Dawn
  • The Showdown is on
  • One night is all that stands between them and freedom. But it’s going to be a hell of a night.
  • How far can Too Far go?

Cast:

Music:

  • Graeme Revell

Plot:

  • Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the lam after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive ‘from dusk till dawn’ at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.

Movie Quotes:

  • Seth: I know that I have put you through hell, and I know that I have been one rough pecker. But from here on, you are all in my cool book.

Trivia:

  • References to previous movies that Quentin Tarantino has been involved with (Pulp Fiction (1994), True Romance (1993), and Reservoir Dogs (1992)): – Kahuna Burgers (in the hotel room) – Red Apple cigarettes (on the dashboard of the Gecko’s Cougar) – Seth’s line to Harvey Keitel: “Okay ramblers, let’s get rambling.”
  • The dialogue between Kate and Seth while awaiting the final vampire attack (“use ‘em on the first couple of these parasites that try to bite you”) is virtually word for word from Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Scott Fuller is wearing a T-shirt with ‘Precinct 13′ on it.
  • The gun that Sex Machine wields is one of the weapons found in El Mariachi’s guitar case in Desperado (1995), also directed by Robert Rodriguez. Chango beer (also from the earlier film) is available at the bar.