The band playing at the desert bar, The Titty Twister, is a real life group called Tito & Tarantula that features Rodriguez and Oingo Boingo drummer Johnny “Vatos” Hernandez.
#Dusk till dawn movie#
The movie is chock full of nods and winks to the films specifically made for the teenage, drive-in set.
The movie title itself comes from signs posted at drive-ins that explained how long the movies would show every night, from dusk till dawn. She was actually named after the title of a gory Mexican Horror movie, Satanico Pandemonium: La Sexorcista (1975), that Tarantino had seen on the shelves of the video store he once worked in, switched it out from the rather boring Blonde Death. The name of the exotic character Satanico Pandemonium was not a random choice by Tarantino. The set even had their own tattoo artist!Įver wonder why the Vampires had green blood? It was not to make them seem more reptilian – it was to get the gushing fountains of gore through the censors. Tarantino also included his own writer’s trademarks, from Richie’s obsession with bare feet, to a shot from inside the trunk as the hatch is being opened, and even take out from Big Kahuna Burger. This rated R film was produced by Gianni Nunnari ( Se7en 1995, Shutter Island 2010) and Meir Teper ( What’s Eating Gilbert Grape 1993, Crazy in Alabama 1999) to music composed by Graeme Revell ( Sin City 2005, Planet Terror 2007).
#Dusk till dawn driver#
Rodriguez would direct while Tarantino took a turn in front of the camera, acting opposite George Clooney ( ER TV series, Oceans 11 2001), Harvey Keitel ( Taxi Driver 1976, Reservoir Dogs 1992), Juliette Lewis ( Cape Fear 1991, Natural Born Killers 1994), Danny Trejo ( Planet Terror 2007, Machete 2010) and Salma Hayek ( Frida 2002, Once Upon A Time in Mexico 2003). Both special effects artists Greg Nicoterro and Tom Savini also had bit parts as bikers. Once Tarantino mentioned the script to his director friend, Robert Rodriguez ( Grindhouse 2007, Machete 2010), the rest fell neatly into place. 1 2003) was paid $1,500 for his services by makeup artist Robert Kurtzman ( Army of Darkness 1992, John Carpenter’s Vampires 1998) in 1990, and in exchange for writing a script that would showcase the talents of Kurtzman’s group, Kurtzman, Nicotero & Berger EFX Group, Inc., the special effects company would provide the FX makeup for Tarantino’s debut film, Reservoir Dogs (1992). Tarantino ( Pulp Fiction 1994, Kill Bill Vol. Part Crime caper, part Vampire flick, part Western, and part Exploitation, Quentin Tarantino’s script was the first of its kind and still stands as a favorite for both Horror and Action movie lovers alike ,even now, twenty years after its theatrical debut on January 19, 1996. Like the mythological Chimera, the many faceted thrill ride F rom Dusk Till Dawn is an amalgam of many parts sewn together to make a brand new creature.
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