The second half of From Dusk till Dawn is either the reason things go off the rails, or how it cements itself a cult classic, depending on your taste. The unfortunate family chosen to help them in this endeavour are the Fullers: a grizzled pastor suffering a crisis of faith called Jacob (Harvey Keitel), and his teenage children Kate (Juliette Lewis) and Scott (Ernest Liu). The two brothers are hoping to make it to Mexico, heading for the safety of El Ray (a fictional town taken from 1958 crime novel The Getaway), but need hostages to help them evade US-Mexico border control. The first is close to what one expects of a mid-’90s Tarantino crime thriller, as we follow fugitive criminals Seth (George Clooney) and Richie Gecko (Tarantino) after a failed bank robbery.
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That can’t be a coincidence!įrom Dusk till Dawn is famously a movie of two halves.
This obviously didn’t happen and Dimension Films ended up producing the film instead, but Universal’s resulting Bordello of Blood (1996) likewise featured a brothel full of vampires. This was around the time when QT was selling scripts ( Natural Born Killers, True Romance) and polishing others ( Crimson Tide), and Universal Pictures made it known they wanted to produce From Dusk till Dawn as a sequel to their hit Tales from the Crypt movie Demon Knight (1995). Robert Kurtzman (a writer, director, producer, make-up artist of some repute) hired Tarantino to write From Dusk till Dawn as his first paid writing assignment, based on Kurtzman’s own rough outline and premise. And that’s despite the fact Tarantino himself wasn’t behind the camera, as his friend Robert Rodriguez ( Desperado) directed his screenplay’s strange mix of crime and horror. Quentin Tarantino exploded onto the scene with his low-budget crime thriller Reservoir Dogs (1992), but while audiences and critics were kneeling at his altar by the time Pulp Fiction (1994) was nominated for numerous Academy Awards (winning ‘Best Original Screenplay’), it was From Dusk till Dawn that sealed the deal for me.
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