![]() It’s there Clooney battles a giant rat, Lewis fires a pump-action crossbow and Hayek’s character, Santanico Pandemonium, delivers her sensuous dance with a python. Some of the movie’s most memorable moments came from inside the Mexican strip club, the Titty Twister. Watch a Bloody Battle Scene from 'From Dusk Till Dawn' It was just a very cool, bold time, when everybody was just trying different things.” “It was our early attempt at doing a double feature within the same feature - two genres for the price of one. You didn’t mention vampires the whole first half of the movie, and then it switches,” Rodriguez explained. However, once the characters arrived in Mexico, it turned into a bloody horror flick, with the grindhouse gore and specialized weaponry seen in Rodriguez’s work. The first half of the film was more of a crime thriller, reflecting Tarantino’s distinctive filmmaking style with acerbic dialogue, character monologues and sudden violence. One of the polarizing aspects of From Dusk Till Dawn was its structure. Tom Savini and Fred Williamson, known for their appearances in classic horror and blaxploitation films, respectively, rounded out the ensemble cast. Much of the cast would be made up of familiar faces from the filmmakers' previous projects, including Harvey Keitel ( Reservoir Dogs), Juliette Lewis ( Natural Born Killers), Salma Hayek ( Desperado), Cheech Marin ( Desperado) and Danny Trejo ( Desperado). ![]() “Since he plays an ER doctor on television,” added Rodriguez, “I wanted him to come and portray someone who sends people to the ER.” I thought he was really neat,” Tarantino noted in the making of From Dusk Till Dawn short. I thought he was like this kind of cool Robert Mitchum character on ER. “I had just started watching George on ER and really liked him. Watch George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino in 'From Dusk Till Dawn' George Clooney, then a TV star thanks to ER, would take the role of Seth Gecko while Tarantino played his younger brother, Richie. You’ll already get the horror base, so don’t call it a horror movie.’” The star power of both filmmakers on the same project finally pushed things into motion. Back then, they were like, ‘Eh, we’re trying to bring in more audience. Today, you make a horror film, and they go, ‘It’s a horror film!’ and they underline it. “Horror wasn’t so big at that time,” Rodriguez admitted to Yahoo! “The studio didn’t even want to call it a horror film. Rodriguez was excited to meld his vision alongside Tarantino’s, while also delving into the horror genre. Suddenly it became avant-garde, it’s two movies in one! We said, ‘Let’s go make it now while things are hot because they’ll never let us do it again.’" Originally they thought it was weird, you turn the page and there’s vampires! It makes no sense. Then Pulp Fiction hit and everybody wanted to make Quentin’s script, it didn’t matter. “It was unsellable,” Rodriguez recalled of From Dusk Till Dawn during a interview with Entertainment Weekly. ![]() Enter Robert Rodriguez, a close friend of Tarantino’s, who had also found recent success thanks to the films El Mariachi and Desperado. Though Tarantino’s fingerprints were all over the project, he wanted to focus on acting in the movie rather than directing it. Watch George Clooney Battle Vampire Salma Hayek in 'From Dusk Till Dawn' Once across the border, the group finds itself stranded at a seedy strip club, whose inhabitants turn out to be vampires. They thought it was too vulgar and violent.”įrom Dusk Till Dawn’s story followed a pair of criminal brothers as they take a family hostage and flee to Mexico. “It was initially rejected everywhere,” Kurtzman explained. Even as the filmmaker sold his scripts to True Romance and Natural Born Killers - and further broke into the mainstream with his groundbreaking Pulp Fiction - From Dusk Till Dawn remained on the back burner. Soon, Tarantino was a rising star, as Reservoir Dogs became a hugely successful independent film. QT would write our script and I would do the FX for Reservoir Dogs.” “We didn’t have much money to pay him, but it was enough for Quentin to leave his job as a video clerk to write our project,” Kurtzman noted, adding one other important fact. ![]()
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