From Dusk Till Dawn

Posted on February 5, 2010
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What you get here is the very best ass kicking, shotgun toting, gloriously slimy, outrageously funny, vampire-slaying-bank-robbers-on-the-run road movie ever made. The Gecko brothers (George Clooney, and Quentin Tarantino), have killed a lot of people in Texas and so they’re forced to head for Mexico. On the way, they hijack a family motor home, taking ex-minister Jacob (Harvey Keitel) and his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) as hostages, to help them sneak out of the USA.
South of the border, they plan to meet up with a crook named Carlos (Cheech Marin) at a sleazy truckers’ bar called the Titty-Twister. In this crimson decorated dive, one of the sexy dancers (Salma Hayek, no less!) suddenly turns into the queen of vampires, and the inevitable bar fight that ensues becomes an overzealous blood ‘n’ guts massacre as hordes of hideous soft-bodied monsters are stabbed, slashed, shredded, shot in the head, or blown to smithereens. For scenes combining senseless horror and macho action this is almost unsurpassed. This film is definatly one of my favorites. You either love it of hate it!
YEAR: 1996
STAR: George Clooney