{"id":18085,"date":"2025-10-31T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18085"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:37:00","slug":"from-dusk-till-dawn-1996-robert-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18085","title":{"rendered":"From Dusk Till Dawn (1996, Robert Rodriguez)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clooney is the bank robber who didn&#8217;t mean to kill anybody but absolutely will if they force his hand, Quentin is his idiot brother who kills as many people as possible and gets to suck whiskey off Salma Hayek&#8217;s feet.  I would say the violence is distasteful, but I also just watched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17979\">The Devil&#8217;s Rejects<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18080\">Terrifier 2<\/a><\/em>, so, shrug.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fromdusk1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fromdusk5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>After they kidnap Harvey Keitel with daughter Juliette Lewis and son who doesn&#8217;t get to do much, and cross into Mexico to meet their contact at Salma&#8217;s vampire biker bar, fellow badass almost-survivors are Tom Savini and Fred Williamson.  Between the shooting and cutting and action and makeup, all the craft is top-notch, so it&#8217;s a shame they throw in some dated morphing effects.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fromdusk4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Rosenbaum raves: &#8220;if your critical horizons are low and you\u2019re feeling in a nasty mood, you probably won\u2019t be bored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tito &#038; Tarantula:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fromdusk2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The future Machete:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fromdusk3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Regarding my recent complaint that holding any two sticks together forms a holy-enough cross to ward off vampires, they reason that it worked for Peter Cushing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fromdusk6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clooney is the bank robber who didn&#8217;t mean to kill anybody but absolutely will if they force his hand, Quentin is his idiot brother who kills as many people as possible and gets to suck whiskey off Salma Hayek&#8217;s feet. I would say the violence is distasteful, but I also just watched The Devil&#8217;s Rejects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1023,829,2810,137,106,193,2114,2684,3330,186],"class_list":["post-18085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-george-clooney","tag-harvey-keitel","tag-juliette-lewis","tag-mexico","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-robert-rodriguez","tag-salma-hayek","tag-strip-club","tag-tom-savini","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18111,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions\/18111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}