From Dusk Till Dawn | | Cast : | Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis | | Director : | Robert Rodriguez | | Studio : | Dimension Home Video | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 19, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | October 03, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | Great double sided movie | Content
 | From Dusk Till Dawn was an entertaining movie. It starts off as a simple movie with two brothers trying to get into Mexico to escape feds and meeting a family by chance. Within an hour, it turns into this all out bloodfest with vampires and bats becoming more of a fantasy movie. It was a good movie one that doesn't put you to sleep yet one that doesn't mesmorize you either. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | Dragging, but good. | Content
| The first half of this movie is very Quinten Tarantino, the dialogue and the way everything is paced reminds me of his other movies alot. The second half drops a little in quality and the dialogue that is Tarantino becomes average TV movie talk. Harvey Keitel would have been alot better without his Texas accent, but he was still good. Tarantino's character was interesting and not what I would have expected, but I wish that they would've spent more time on him once he turned into a vampire. George Clooney's character, Seth, was exactly like every other character I've seen him play. Clooney is probably one of the least versatile actors I know of. As this is a Robert Rodriguez film it wouldn't be complete without his leading lady, Salma Hayek. This film contains a scene featuring her for not long enough, but it's definately a high point in the movie for any male. As this is a vampire movie, and it is sold as a vampire movie, one of the things preventing me from classifying it as "Very Good" is the fact that vampires really don't have a big part in it at all. Sure, they have a long stretch (featuring Tom Savini acting, which is great) but the film doesn't have the feel of a vampire movie's sense of dread. It may be funny at times, but the vampires aren't used enough throughout the story as a threat. The police are played up as more of an enemy as the vampires, and that to me is sad. Another thing is that this movie is about 1 hr. 40 minutes or so, yet it feels like a movie drags on forever. Anyway, it's still an entertaining film and I recommend it to anyone interested, but I cannot in anyway guarantee that you will enjoy it.
NOTE:
This film is for no one under 13 years old. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | Original, Top-Of-The-Line Vampire Horror | Content
| It's hard to do much original with vampires after literally hundreds of films featuring the creatures, including excellent picks like "Near Dark" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula", but "From Dusk 'Til Dawn" is one of a few over the last decade that's injected fresh, vibrant blood into the always popular vampire subgenre, and has helped keep it a healthy subsection of the horror field.
With great performances from an excellent cast that includes George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Salma Hayak, Quentin Tarantino, Ernest Liu, Tom Savini and Kelly Preston, it's odd in that for almost the whole first half of the movie there's no indication at all that you're seeing a horror movie. What you've got is a superb suspense thriller/whacked-out crime drama about two convicts (Clooney and Tarantino) abducting a family in their motorhome to make a getaway down to Mexico. When the horror elements come in, they don't creep in gradually but kick in the proverbial door howling for blood, driven by some of the best monster effects ever seen. I don't know if this kind of pacing would work in a lot of movies, but it was extremely potent here. A fantastic horror movie that, because of its superstar cast, has the potential to draw new fans into the entire genre. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 30, 2005 | | Summary | "Do they LOOK like Psychos to you?!?" | Content
| Two bank robbing brothers and a family of hostages, a Mexican bar just over the border populated by blood-sucking vampires, Salma Hayek in one of her first Hollywood roles, Cheech Marin in several roles, and an ocean of violence and gore mark this collaborative effort by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, but on screen it's all George Clooney's show. "Dusk" is actually two hyper-violent movies. The first half tracks the sociopath Gecko brothers (Tarantino & Clooney) as they escape across Texas with the fruits of their latest heist. Their goal: Mexico, where they will find sanctuary with a crime lord played by Marin. To get across the border, they hijack an RV driven by Harvey Keitel (as a lapsed preacher) and his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis). At first hostages, Keitel and co. bond with the crazy Gecko's if only to keep them from killing anybody. Once in Mexico, things change quickly - Gecko's meeting is placed at some horrid cross-border bar/strip-club/brothel. At first, it appears to be the Gecko's kind of place - until the bar's owners reveal themselves to be vicious, blood sucking vampires. Trapped inside the hellish bar, and barely surviving the first battle with the vampires, the Gecko's forge an uneasy alliance with the remaining human patrons - their hostages, as well as a cool vet named Frost (Fred Williamson) and a biker played by horror legend Tom Savini. Their goal - to survive the night.
This was not only an extremely violent, gory and supercharged movie, but seems to exist for that alone. The script posits gratuitous action for no purpose. Even the vampire plot seems to drop out of nowhere, ending an interesting rapport between Clooney and Keitel. Trapped inside the evil bar, it's less a movie than an R-rated Haunted-House ride. That said, the movie is godawful fun, with Rodriguez painfully and hysterically finding different ways for the humans to dispatch the vampires. The script is laced with wicked lines - most by George Clooney. This has to be one of the most wickedly guilty pleasures since "The Last Boy Scout" and about the furthest thing you can get from a chick-flick. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 17, 2005 | | Summary | A TWISTED COMBINATION OF CRIME & HORROR | Content
| Directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino (who also co-stars) From Dusk til Dawn is a unique movie combining the gritty and crime drama of Tarantino's pulp fiction and splatter on a horror background of vampire bikers and strippers. George Clooney and Tarantino are Seth and Richard Gecko, brothers and career criminals who flee to Mexico after killing a cop and convenience store employee in a memorable shootout as they blast liquor bottles over the armed clerk and light a roll of toilet paper on fire and toss it at the man.
Dumping their getaway car they hijack the RV of Jacob Fuller(Harvey Keitel), a former minister who has lost his way and is travelling with his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) and son Scott (Ernest Liu). They make their way to Mexico to a strip club in the middle of nowhere where the Gecko's plan to meet an associate. The bar is for bikers and truckers only and includes people like Frost (Fred Williamson) Sex Machine (make-up guru Tom Savini) and consumate bad guy Danny Trejo playing the bartender. Cheech Marin actually plays three different roles in the film as well.
The group soon learns that the entertainment, including highlight act Santanico Pandemonium (Selma Hayek) are vampires and now the small group find themselves in a life or death struggle to survive until the sun rises. As you might expect from a Tarantino story there is liberal violence and loads of humor. In one part the survivors are trying to remember what weapons work on vampires. Sex machine keeps saying that he thinks silver can work and others argue that it's only on werewolves. Kate is quick to point out that since no one has any silver anyway, that they should just forget it.
It's about as gruesome a vampire film as you will ever see with decapitations, limbs being torn off, throats ripped out, and blood spurting like a fountain. It's not scary per se, but it is a wild and exhilarating ride with enjoyable performances by all, excellent make-up and effects and loads of action. The sequels pale next to this original. The great DVD release comes with deleted scenes, featurettes, and commentary by Rodriguez and Tarantino. A 90's horror classic! |
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