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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. Jason Bergenfeld

All Movie Guide

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. Matthew Tobey

Product Details

• UPC: 065935820864
• Source: ALLIANCE CANADA
• Presentation: Wide Screen
• Editions: Subtitled
• Time: 1:47:00
• Sales Rank: 12,263

This DVD is also available as part of a box set:

• From Dusk Till Dawn Triple Pack