From Dusk Till Dawn [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Rodriguez Robert Rodriguez

Overview

In this action-horror flick from director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino stars with George Clooney as a pair of bad-to-the-bone brothers named Seth and Richie Gecko. After a string of robberies that left a river of blood in the Geckos' wake, the sadistic siblings head to Mexico to live the good life. To get over the border, they kidnap Jacob Fuller, a widowed preacher played by Harvey Keitel, and his two children, Kate (Juliette Lewis) and Scott (Ernest Liu). Once south of the border, the quintet park their RV at a rough-and-tumble trucker bar called The Titty Twister, where Seth and Richie are supposed to meet a local thug. After a couple of drinks, they realize that they're not in a typical bar, as the entire place begins to teem with vicious, blood-sucking vampires. With the odds stacked greatly against them, the Fullers and Geckos team together in hopes of defeating the creatures of the night. Makeup artist Tom Savini and blaxploitation star Fred Williamson appear as allies against the vampires, and Cheech Marin fills three different roles.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2020
UPC:	0032429345103
Original Release:	1996
Rating:	R
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	11,910

Special Features

1080p High Definition

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Harvey Keitel	Jacob Fuller
George Clooney	Seth Gecko
Quentin Tarantino	Richard Gecko
Juliette Lewis	Kate Fuller
Cheech Marin	Border Guard/Chet Pussy/Carlos
Fred Williamson	Frost
Salma Hayek	Santanico Pandemonium
Ernest Liu	Scott Fuller
Michael Parks	Texas Ranger Earl McGraw
John Saxon	FBI Agent Stanley Chase
Kelly Preston	Newcaster Kelly Houge
Tom Savini	Sex Machine
Marc Lawrence	Old Timer
Danny Trejo	Razor Charlie
John Hawkes	Pete Bottoms
Heidi McNeal	Red-Headed Hostage
Aimee Graham	Blonde Hostage
Brenda Hillhouse	Hostage Gloria
Tito Larriva	Titty Twister Guitarist & Vocalist
Pete Atasanoff	Titty Twister Saxophonist
Johnny Vatos Hernández	Titty Twister Drummer
Cristos	Danny
Chad Dowdell	Man at Bar (uncredited)
Mike Moroff	Manny
Ernest Garcia	Big Emilio,Big Emilio
Michelle Berube	Bar Dancer
Neena Bidasha	Bar Dancer,Bar Dancer
Ungela Brockman	Bar Dancer
Madison Clark	Bar Dancer
Maria Daiz	Bar Dancer
Rosalia Hayakawa	Bar Dancer
Janine Jordae	Bar Dancer
Jacque Lawson	Bar Dancer
Houston Leigh	Bar Dancer
Janie Liszewski	Bar Dancer
Tia Texada	Bar Dancer
Jon Fidele	Monster
Michael McKay	Monster
Walter Phelan	Monster
Henrik Von Ryzin	Monster
Jake McKinnon	Monster
Josh Patton	Monster
Wayne Toth	Monster
María Díaz	Bar Dancer
Graeme Revell	Composer

Technical Credits

Quentin Tarantino

Robert Krutzman

Robert Rodriguez	Director,Executive Producer
Charles Belardinelli	Special Effects
Thomas Bellissimo	Special Effects
Lawrence Bender	Executive Producer,Producer
Diana Dru Botsford	Special Effects
Steve Davison	Stunts
Daniel A. Fort	Special Effects
Elaine J. Huzzar	Casting
Gianni Nunnari	Producer
Johanna Ray	Casting
Quentin Tarantino	Executive Producer,Screenwriter
Meir Teper	Producer
Robert Krutzman	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

In 1996, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino joined forces as a directing/writing team to create one of the most gleeful and explosive vampire flicks ever. A brutal crime caper that morphs into an even more brutal horror flick, From Dusk Till Dawn is a visceral cross-genre experiment. The story follows hardened bank-robbing brothers Seth and Richard Gecko (George Clooney and Tarantino) as they head to Mexico with horrifically unexpected results. Escaping the U.S. authorities with the help of a faithless preacher (Harvey Keitel) and his children (Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu), the hoods find themselves in the film's greatest set piece, a rowdy border bar where all the doors and windows suddenly seal up and a vampire feeding frenzy breaks out. Tarantino's trademark pop-culture-inspired script makes references both to his and Rodriguez's previous films and provides rich fodder for the actors. Clooney's work here proved his leading-man mettle, and Keitel's preacher is a complicated role worthy of his acting skills. Rodriguez -- with Desperado under his belt and Spy Kids in his future -- makes the film a freewheeling gas right from the start, taking its abrupt genre shift in stride. With a cast that also includes everyone from Salma Hayek and '70s blaxploitation hero Fred Williamson to horror makeup master Tom Savini, this remains among the most flat-out entertaining gore-fests ever filmed.

Barnes & Noble - Jason Bergenfeld

From Dusk Till Dawn is a voraciously vulgar and violent film that illustrates how talented filmmakers can create a deliberately bad movie. Scripted by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez (Desperado), the film can best be described as a Mexican road picture turned self-conscious vampathon with a droll postmodern slant. Remarkably, the narrative consists of two contrasting types of films crudely soldered together. The story begins as a Pulp Fiction-type gangster tale featuring the sharp and profane dialogue seen in Tarantino's other films. Then with no warning, the movie suddenly transforms into a zany, vampire bloodbath similar to the tongue-in-cheek horror works of Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson. However, Tarantino is able to turn the genre on its undead ear, creating an over-the-top gorefest featuring holy-water condom balloons, quadruple impalement, and Harvey Keitel sucking blood as a preacher-turned-vampire. This bold and bizarre Tarantino/Rodriguez effort is laden with frenetic editing and fresh dialogue, but all style and cinematic skill fall to the wayside when the body count abruptly begins. This is a tour de force of outrageous bad taste coupled with delicious talent. Those who relish the work of Quentin Tarantino will certainly find merit in the first half of the film. Others who consider themselves horror aficionados will go bloody crazy over the eventual monster mash.

All Movie Guide - Adam Goldberg