Today I was a little hungover and I thought I either needed to watch something where I didn't have to think very much, but it had to be good enough to sit through it without falling asleep or being violently ill. Cue Robert Rodriguez' From Dusk Till Dawn.
Two criminals on the run from the law (Young George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino), they decide to jump the border and head to Mexico. But first they have to gather up some hostages so they have human collateral. When they get to Mexico, they take refuge in a nudie bar with some interesting/terrifying inhabitants. And that's where all the fun begins.
Robert Rodriguez has had a history of hits and misses (Sin City: Good, Shark Boy and Lava Girl: Bad, so very bad). I'm glad to say From Dusk Till Dawn is a hit, it has a great cast and hilarious dialogue. It's kind of refreshing to watch this in a world where vampires are have become stupid glittery prettyboys. Where has Nosferatu gone? Where's the fun? Bring them back I say.
Anyway, it's a lot of fun, the gore and the vampire special effects have become a bit tacky but I'm sure this was way scary in its time. The fight sequences are a good mix of humour and action, it's important for the film not to take itself so seriously or else it would be utterly crap.
I particularly like Sex Machine (Tom Savini) and the vampiric mariachi band and Salma Hayek is pretty sexy too as the dancer/vampire Satanica Pandemonium. The cast is full of people you'd know and most of them have featured in more than one of Rodriguez' work.
well now i must sleep/listen to mariachi music
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