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From Dusk Till Dawn
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From Dusk Till Dawn is a 1996 action horror film written by Quentin Tarantino, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and starring Tarantino, George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, and Juliette Lewis.The plot centers around the Gecko brothers, Seth (Clooney) and Richie (Tarantino), two dyed-in-the-wool criminals on the run from the police after a prison break in Texas. Causing death and destruction wherever they go, they eventually manage to sneak past the border with Mexico by taking a pastor and his two teenage children hostage in their RV. They go to a trucker bar, the Titty Twister, to spend the night as they wait for their rendezvous.What happens at this point is a very sudden and unexpected Genre Shift when it turns out that the bar is a front for a clan of vampires, and the brothers have to fight for their survival through the night (hence the title). Of course, this has become widely spoiled and, as such, can lose most of its effect (in fact, many people probably rented the film and wondered where the hell the vampires were for the first half).The movie got two Direct to Video sequels, though they share none of the creative cast and don't follow any of the characters introduced in the first film (except in the second sequel, which is about the origins of the vampire Santanico Pandemonium), with the only connecting thread being the vampire bar/lair, The Titty Twister: From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)A documentary titled Full Tilt Boogie was also released in 1997, detailing the making of the first movie in addition to showing the cast and crew just messing around. There was also a From Dusk Till Dawn video game released in 2001 for PCs, taking place directly after the end of the first movie.In 2014, a TV series inspired by the films was made as one of the headliners of Robert Rodriguez's new network, El Rey. | |
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left | |
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left: The vampire band simply flip the bird and run away when the boys prepare to deal with them. | |
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Dirty Coward: The only explanation for why Sex Machine hides his vampire bite. | |
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Anyone Can Die: And boy howdy do they by the second half of the flick. Even the villains are not immune to this — Santanico dies very quickly, much to her own astonishment. | |
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Creator Cameo: Makeup supervisor Howard Berger appears as the vampire who turns Sex Machine. Executive producer Lawrence Bender is seen sitting in a dining booth. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: A duo of robbers and murderers, versus bloodsucking undead. | |
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Improvised Cross: Jacob fights vampires with a pump-action shotgun that he cocks with a baseball bat on its loop-grip, forming a cross. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Harvey Keitel as Jacob Fuller. | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black: The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for. | |
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The Cameo: John Saxon as a cop interviewed on a TV. Special effects artist Greg Nicotero appears as a patron getting his beer stolen by Sex Machine. | |
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The Virus | |
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The Virus: How vampirism is treated with a hint of Hive Mind. | |
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Looks Like Orlok | |
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Looks Like Orlok: When Santanico Pandemonium fully transitions into her vampire form, she basically looks like a reptilian version of Orlok: bald, pointy ears, fangs, and scales. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: The hostages, particularly Scott Fuller, have all the Genre Savvy needed to survive in a heist film or hostage taking film. Scott even lampshades this by telling his father "I've seen this on TV Dad!" Pity for them the bar the Gecko Brothers choose to stop is full of Fricking Vampire Strippers! | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The film features and is written by Tarantino. This is pretty much part and parcel with his style. Of particular note is the opening scene — Seth and Richie set the liquor-store clerk Pete Bottoms on fire, who dives out from behind the counter shooting at them... only to collapse in a popcorn display, his flaming corpse setting the kernels popping. | |
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Sinister Southwest | |
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Sinister Southwest: Two murderous bank robbers on the lam in the Texas badlands take a family hostage while making a run for the Mexican border. They succeed in crossing and make a clean getaway... only to end up in a strip club full of Aztec vampires. | |
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Lampshade Hanging/Made of Plasticine: Vampires have super-strength, but take hits like monsters made of Play-Doh, as noted by the cast. | |
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Mayincatec: The ending reveals that the Titty Twister is located above a long-buried Aztec temple, presumably a sacrificial pyramid. Its inhabitants merged with the Bat, ruler of the underworld and darkness in Mayan culture. | |
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Head-Turning Beauty: The universal male reaction to both the innocent-looking Kate ("Apple pie pussy!") and the sensual Santanico. | |
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Ax-Crazy: Richie Gecko, a bloodthirsty psychopath and rapist. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Seth Gecko, who doesn't have any compunctions against killing hostages, chastises his Ax-Crazy brother Richie for raping everything in sight and using wanton violence to resolve problems. He also adamantly refuses to let Kate accompany him further into Mexico with his criminal companions, as he has no intention of bringing her into the type of life he lives. | |
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Sorting Algorithm of Evil | |
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Sorting Algorithm of Evil: An unusual inverted example. When the vampires reveal their true nature, the named ones with actual character and personality are all killed before the climax, including Santanico Pandemonium, who was seemingly being set up as the leader of the vampires and the Big Bad. The climax ends up involving several waves of no-name Mook vampires, alongside three converted allies. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Most notably Chet Pussy's sales pitch, but nearly all of the characters swear profusely on at least one occasion. | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: Chet Pussy seems to have recovered from his beatdown remarkably quickly. | |
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Actor Allusion: Tom Savini plays a Badass Biker again. John Saxon plays a police officer in a horror movie. | |
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Spiritual Sequel: Rodriguez and Tarantino would pay homage to exploitation/horror films again when each directed half of Grindhouse. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: The survivors start arguing about whether silver works on vampires or not. Kate shuts the argument up by asking if any of them actually have anything silver — which they don't. | |
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New Old West | |
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New Old West: It's basically another "fight-in-a-saloon" movie, but with Mexicans and vampires. | |
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I'm Melting! | |
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I'm Melting!: Vampire bodies dissolve into a sickly green goo shortly after death. | |
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Captain Obvious: This exchange between Kate and Richie: | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Though the Titty Twister is destroyed and all the vampires have been wiped out, Seth and Kate are the only survivors by the end of the ordeal. Kate offers to go with him, but Seth declines, admitting he is not evil enough to pull her into his lifestyle, and they part ways. Kate is left by herself in her now dead family's RV. It's implied Seth's going to get what he wanted — retire in peace to Mexico — and Kate's free from her family drama. | |
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Villainous Rescue: Attempted. Right before vampires turn and go hog wild the bouncer and bar security attempts one last time to get their uninvited guests to leave, presumably with their lives, but no avail | |
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Innocent Bystander: The bank teller that the Geckos held hostage. | |
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You Dirty Rat! | |
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You Dirty Rat!: Sex Machine transforms into a giant, skinless rat after getting his head ripped off. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil | |
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Always Chaotic Evil: Whereas vampires in many other movies are often played up as the twisted, tormented former humans they actually are, here the bloodsuckers are depicted as either this trope or mindless animals who roar and snarl. The ones who aren't are still pure evil. | |
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Hot as Hell | |
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Hot as Hell: Not Satan herself, but Santanico Pandemonium fits to a T. | |
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Silver Has Mystic Powers | |
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Silver Has Mystic Powers: Discussed. Sex Machine says that silver can be used to kill vampires, only for Scott to counter that's werewolves; and then Sex Machine counters right back that silver bullets are used on werewolves, but silver in general supposedly can work on vampires. Kate settles it by asking if anyone even has any silver. No? "Then who cares?" | |
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Improvised Weapon: Quite literally by the truckload. | |
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Wham Line: When the Fuller family are taken hostage by the Gecko brothers, Richie imagines Kate saying this to him, showing just how truly mentally ill he is. | |
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Wham Shot: The shot of the green blood on the knife after Richie stabs Razor Charlie. Santanico Pandemonium and the other exotic dancers turning into hungry vampires once they catch sight of Richie's hand bleeding. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Some of the victims once they turn. Most notably Sex Machine after he gets his head pulled off. This doesn't kill him, rather it activates a whole new mutation into what can be described as a skinless oversized rat. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: When he's about to be turned into a vampire (almost), and being told, "Welcome to slavery!", Seth remarks, "No thanks; I already had a wife." He then shoots the chandelier above Santanico Pandemonium, making it drop down on her and crush her. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: The host outside the Titty Twister was obnoxious, but certainly didn't invite the beating he got from the brothers. This quite literally comes back to bite them later, when a vampire massacre becomes personal. | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word: Averted. After the first big battle with the vampires and subsequent clean-up, Seth confirms with everyone that it was vampires they all just fought. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The song "Dark Night" plays as the main characters drive away from a thoroughly destroyed building. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Seth is a total bastard and an amoral thief, but he doesn't kill people he doesn't have to, can usually be counted on to keep his word, and tries to prevent innocents from getting harmed. | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
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Mathematician's Answer: | |
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Devil, but No God | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_59fe174d | comment |
Devil, but No God: Discussed but ultimately averted. Seth restores Jacob's faith by telling him that, if the vampires are the spawn of Satan, then that must mean there's a Hell — which means there must also be a Heaven. | |
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SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror | |
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Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Lots of horror on the middle and last act, and even then there's a lot of over-the-top deaths. | |
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Virus-Victim Symptoms | |
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Virus-Victim Symptoms: Played for laughs with Sex Machine's reactions to his sudden vampirism. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Salma Hayek is a real-life ophidiophobe, such that she almost didn't take the part of Santanico Pandemonium because of it. Robert Rodriguez conned her into thinking that Madonna was ready to take the part instead, so she spent two months with therapists in order to overcome her fear of snakes. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_5ca80293 | comment |
Pragmatic Villainy: The source of Seth's grievance with Richie; he objects to Richie's murderous and occasionally carnal rampages not on any moral ground, but because Seth prides himself on being a professional thief, and raping and murdering your only hostage means that now, not only do you not have a hostage, but racking up bodies draws attention and leaves a trail that can be followed. This seems to be the reason the vampires are so adamant about kicking out the Geckos and the Fullers instead of killing them in the nightly feeding massacre. The bar specifically targets truckers and bikers, people always on the road whose exact last known location can't be easily determined (especially in the 90's before widespread adoption of cellphones and GPS location). The vampires have no idea who the Geckos and Fullers are and can't be sure no one will look for them, in fact Seth straight out tells everyone he's planning to meet someone there. For similar reasons, in the sequel the vampires offer to give Luther a ride to the nearest phone when his car breaks down near the bar, only attacking him after learning he hit one of them with his car previously. | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_5d5cc3fd | comment |
Through the Eyes of Madness: Very briefly when the Fullers are taken hostage we see Kate from Richie's perspective, who uncharacteristically starts begging Richie to "eat my pussy." Just to drive the point home, the angle is intentionally shot distorted. If there were any doubts about how messed up in the head Richie is, this pretty much clinches it. | |
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Four Eyes, Zero Soul | |
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Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Richie (until his glasses are broken by an angry punch from Seth). | |
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Man on Fire | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_5d86966a | comment |
Man on Fire: The clerk at Benny's World of Liquor earns some cool points by continuing to fire on the Geckos after being lit aflame. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_5f3bb274 | comment |
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Advertising promoted the movie as one of the vampire hunting genre, though the movie itself doesn't let the audience know this until the third act. | |
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Skeptic No Longer | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_5f4c3290 | comment |
Skeptic No Longer: This film provides the current page quote for the trope. | |
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Author Appeal | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Quentin Tarantino's famous foot fetish reaches new heights in this film, as his own character gets to suck booze from Hayek's bare foot (It Makes Sense in Context... a sort of). | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_6682d6e4 | comment |
Dying Moment of Awesome: When the vampiric band realizes our heroes are coming for them next, the singer just flips them off goodbye and the three of them blow up together. | |
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Glasses Pull | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_6a1a1f8a | comment |
Glasses Pull: Inverted, when Jacob turns from protective father to ass-kicking padre. | |
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Spicy Latina | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_6bd7b49a | comment |
Spicy Latina: A whole stripper bar of them! With Salma Hayek as their queen-goddess. | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: At first, it seems like the Gecko Brothers only gotta deal with the Texas police as they Run for the Border, being Villain Protagonists who themselves drive the conflict. Then they escape the US halfway through the film and the vampires led by Santanico Pandemonium take over the conflict. Even then, Santanico is killed early in the fight and the leaderless horde end up being the collective True Final Boss. | |
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Unflinching Walk | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_70f7063d | comment |
Unflinching Walk: A variation, with Seth and Richie bickering as the store blows up unnoticed behind them. | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size: After getting his head ripped off, Sex Machine turns into a horrible wererat. | |
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Game Face | |
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Game Face: Sported by vampires when they reveal themselves as bloodsucking fiends — ranging from reptile-things, Buffy-style smashed-up ones, all the way to strange wolf-like muzzles. When the younger Gecko is turned, he gets two. | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
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Big Bad Ensemble: Seth and Richie Gecko, a duo of Villain Protagonist criminals on the run from the law, run into a vampiric strip club run by Santanico Pandemonium. Fireworks ensue. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The 2011 Echo Bridge release of the film on Blu-ray mistakenly included a picture of Rebecca Gayheart on the back cover even though she doesn't actually appear in the film. The picture was taken from the prequel Hangman's Daughter. | |
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Noble Demon | |
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Noble Demon: Seth Gecko. He even declines taking Kate with him in the end, feeling a tad guilty for being the reason her family is dead. | |
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Almighty Janitor | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_73ef9ef3 | comment |
Almighty Janitor: Pete Bottoms the store clerk puts up a better fight than many of the vampires. | |
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Thicker Than Water | |
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Thicker Than Water: Seth Gecko, a ruthless criminal himself, is quite aware that his brother Richie is a psychotic rapist and serial killer. When Seth discovers Richie's latest crime of killing their only hostage he's incredibly disturbed but forgives him nevertheless, promising that they'll have a better life together in Mexico. | |
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Impaled Palm | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_773b0523 | comment |
Impaled Palm: Richie gets a bullet through his palm by Pete Bottoms. In one scene, he looks through it at his brother, and the injury remains a Running Gag until his death, culminating when Santanico bites him on it. | |
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The Savage South | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_77f47fea | comment |
The Savage South: Because the Mexican border really is full of banditos and vampires. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: The vampires' blood is green in order to avoid it being censored. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Frost, a 'Nam vet. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jacob gives Seth an earful for continuing to act like a smug prick after crossing the border. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: Happens to Jacob and Sex Machine. Though it takes two shots to bring down the former (as Scott only blew off half his face the first shot) and it doesn't kill the latter (See Body Horror). The third movie has an undead mook who has this happen, but he just replaces the head with a cobra before that ends up getting shot off. | |
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Feather Boa Constrictor | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_85ae8a58 | comment |
Feather Boa Constrictor: Ladies and gentlemen, behold the world's luckiest snake. | |
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Badass Biker | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_86af7ab0 | comment |
Badass Biker: Sex Machine, who packs a gun hidden inside his codpiece, a whip, and finds killing vampires as easy as breathing. | |
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World of Ham | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_86ee8070 | comment |
World of Ham: Pretty much everybody gets to ham it up in this movie. | |
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Fetishes Are Weird | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_8858e515 | comment |
Fetishes Are Weird: The Serial Killer and rapist Richie has a foot fetish, and it's exploited for all its creepiness. Interestingly, since Richie is played by Quentin Tarantino (who is famous for his foot fetish, and also co-wrote this film), this is a rare example of this trope being written and portrayed by a creator who actually has the fetish. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Seth and Richie Gecko, a duo of ruthless criminals on the run. Seth ends up being the sole protagonist after Richie is killed by the vampires. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_8a817c2a | comment |
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Being an insane serial rapist is what makes Richie Gecko irredeemable in the audience's eyes, unlike his Noble Demon brother who is above that. | |
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Designated Girl Fight | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_8bb79fdf | comment |
Designated Girl Fight: Averted. Several female vampires are present, but Kate doesn't kill any of them, only visibly killing males. Santanico is also killed by Seth. | |
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Holy Burns Evil | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_8c4bafff | comment |
Holy Burns Evil: As Kate uses to her advantage when she forced her crucifix necklace into the mouth of the bouncer vampire. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Richie after getting bitten by Santanico. | |
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Hive Mind | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Hive Mind: Judging from what Sex Machine hears, it seems the vampires operate under one of these for the most part, it may go to explain why (in the movie at least), regardless of how friendly and nice they were before, once turned, vampires jump gleefully into the Always Chaotic Evil mindset. | |
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Night of the Living Mooks | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_920ca805 | comment |
Night of the Living Mooks: A rather weird example in that the vampires begin with a clear leader in Santanico and are clearly individuals with personality themselves, but once they are killed, the subsequent vampires are interchangeable faceless undead monsters. Curiously, though, some of the vampires can shift into different forms. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: Richie hallucinates Kate asking to "eat my pussy", which serves to amp up the tension of whether or not he will rape her. He asks Kate if she meant what she said earlier, to which Kate naturally doesn't know what he means. He says they'll talk later and Juliette Lewis gives a comical little nod — playing the scene for some Black Comedy. | |
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Sociopathic Hero | |
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Sociopathic Hero: The Gecko Brothers, who are just about devoid of heroic characteristics, but still fight the spawn of hell when forced into it. Or at least Seth does; Rich doesn't really survive long enough to do anything. | |
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Death by Cameo | |
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Death by Cameo: John Hawkes as a store clerk who dies in a shootout with the Gecko Brothers. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Kate can barely even choke down a shot of whiskey when she first arrives at the Titty Twister, but has become a viciously clever vampire-killer by the movie's end. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Sex Machine speculates about vampires' having such soft flesh that it'd be possible to rip the head right off of one, and Frost tells a lengthy half-heard story about having killed an entire Viet Cong patrol with his bayonet and getting his rifle covered in blood and flesh halfway up the barrel. Guess what happens to them each, respectively, once they become vampires? | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Sex Machine's crotch gun can be seen in another Rodriguez flick — Desperado. Carolina pulls it out of El Mariachi's guitar case o' weapons, and El awkwardly replies that it's saved his life on a number of occasions. If you get a good look at the burger bags Seth brings back to the motel room, the restaurant logo says they came from Big Kahuna Burger. "OK ramblers, let's get ramblin'." Michael Park+s appears in the beginning as Texas Ranger Earl McGraw, a recurring character of Rodriguez and Tarantino's who also shows up in Kill Bill and both films in Grindhouse. He dies here, but it's anyone's guess whether this indicates From Dusk Till Dawn takes place after the other films. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: While they have all of the standard weaknesses, they were designed to appear more as just pure monsters than merely humans with fangs. It also subverts No Ontological Inertia as killing a vampire that bites you doesn't stop you from turning into one. | |
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Stealth Parody | |
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Stealth Parody: Of both horror and heist films. | |
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Event Title | |
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Event Title: From Dusk Till Dawn. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: For Seth, who survives in the end, so his crimes remain unpunished. Still a Pyrrhic Victory, though, considering he lost his brother. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: "Richie, will you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me? Pleeease?" | |
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Man Hug | |
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Man Hug: Seth Gecko gives his brother, Richie, one of these after reading him the riot act for raping and killing their hostage, but while assuring him that everything will be fine once they get to Mexico. | |
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South of the Border | |
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South of the Border: Mexico, the land of gangsters, strippers, and vampires. | |
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Halfway Plot Switch | |
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Halfway Plot Switch: One of the premier examples of this trope, though it was sadly spoiled thoroughly. In fact, the original name of the trope was just the name of this movie. There were actually cinema-goers who said, out loud, at the point of the switch, "Wait, what the hell kind of movie is this?!"note Which is doubly strange, considering that the genre shift is more of a non-spoiler, as it was HEAVILY advertised as a creature feature as far back as the earliest trailers and promotional materials. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Sex Machine, after realizing that he's been turned into a vampire — and that his former friends will kill him as soon as they find out. Seth gives one after Frost tosses Sex Machine through the window, letting in the bats who had been circling outside. | |
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Final Girl | |
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Final Girl: Kate is one of the few moral characters in the film and ends up one of the two survivors. Her father and brother were scripted to survive too, but get killed in the final film. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: In the first half of the bar scene, Jacob wins a semantics argument that allows the group to stay in the bar. Come the second half… well, vampires eating everyone. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Being a criminal in a movie written by Quentin Tarantino makes Seth a natural. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Salma Hayek wearing a bikini and dancing along with other strippers. At first. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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Tap on the Head: Seth knocks out Richie at the border. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: Upon being told that the Titty Twister is only open to truckers and bikers, Jacob notes that, technically, he is a truck driver, as his RV requires a truck license to legally operate. The guys questioning him can't prove him wrong, so they let him and the rest of the gang stay in the bar. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: "I didn't say 'Do what I do.' I said 'Do what I say.'" At the very beginning of the film, Earl McGraw tells the liquor store clerk that microwavable food will kill him faster than a bullet, seconds before buying some hard liquor and proclaiming that he's gonna get "tanked" tonight. Seth calling the motel proprietor a "mean, old bastard" in a very condescending tone. | |
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And Show It to You | |
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And Show It to You: Played with when a vampire's heart gets ripped out but it keeps on coming, until its disembodied heart is impaled with a cocktail stick. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: Frost has an enormous one after he's turned into a vampire by Sex Machine. | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus! | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus!: The satanic musician vampires in the bar, with instruments made of living flesh. | |
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Inn of No Return | |
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Inn of No Return: The Titty Twister is a den of hungry vampires that eat alive all their patrons every night — and since said patrons are all truckers and similar, it's near impossible to pin-point their exact moment or place of disappearance. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
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Weaksauce Weakness: Vampires are repelled by crosses. Placing any two long straight objects together at a close-enough-to-ninety degree angle has the desired effect. | |
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Zombie Infectee | |
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Zombie Infectee: Sex Machine hides his condition long enough to turn and attack the survivors. | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: Chet assuring customers, "We even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy...". | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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The topless staff of the Titty Twister, especially Salma Hayek, a 27-year-old (at the time) and at her attractive peak. Rapidly changes to Fan Disservice when they turn into a bunch of monsters and start eating everyone. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: When asked whether an improvised cross made from table legs or something would work, Tom Savini's character replies "Peter Cushing does it all the time." Seth threatens to turn the convenience store into "the fuckin' Wild Bunch". Richie's broken glasses are a homage to the movie poster to Straw Dogs (1971). The Titty Twister is based on Kurtz' compound from Apocalypse Now. Scott's t-shirt reads "Precinct 13". | |
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Vampires Are Sex Gods | |
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Vampires Are Sex Gods: Exploited Trope. Santanico Pandemonium and the rest of the female vampires pose as strippers at the Titty Twister Bar to lure in victims. When they drop the act and adopt their Game Face, they're not so appealing anymore... | |
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Vampires Own Night Clubs | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_d34a0281 | comment |
Vampires Own Night Clubs: In a twist (hur hur hur) on the trope, the vampires in this story have a bordertown bar/whorehouse. | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Seth is dumbfounded to learn that Scott is Jacob Fuller's son, pointing out that Jacob doesn't look Japanese. Jacob retorts that Scott doesn't either, because he's Chinese. Seth "apologizes" for this mistake with "Well, excuse me all to hell." | |
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Ludicrous Gibs | |
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Ludicrous Gibs: Basically the entire second half of the movie, with vampires exploding left and right and body parts and gore flying everywhere. | |
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Tattooed Crook | |
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Tattooed Crook: Seth. | |
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Worst Aid | |
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Worst Aid: After the shootout at the gas station, Richie patches up the huge hole in his hand with duct tape. Justified in that the Geckos are wanted fugitives, so going to a hospital isn't really an option, neither of them is a medic, and besides, they've got an appointment to keep in Mexico. | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue: The opening scene, Seth berating Richie about the events that happen while the gas station explodes behind them. The opening line said it all. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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Male Gaze: Used to rare, non-titillating effect to show how Richie Gecko looks at Kate Fuller. It tries to put the audience into Richie's headspace... which is not a pleasant place to be. A straighter example comes during Santanico's sexy dance, where one shot of her cleavage is framed as if it's from Richie's POV. | |
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Colliding Criminal Conspiracies | |
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Colliding Criminal Conspiracies: Bank robbers on the run come across a brothel that's a front for vampire activities. | |
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Camp | |
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Camp: The flick thoroughly revels in its cheesiness. | |
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Determinator | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Seth absolutely refuses to give up hope, even when it looks like he and Kate are about to be vampirized for sure. Fortunately, they're saved by the film's Big Damn Heroes. | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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Only a Flesh Wound: Averted; all the duct tape does for Richie is keep his hand from bleeding after it gets a hole shot through it. He never uses it afterwards (and at one point yells and drops a set of keys when they hit it). | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil: The proprietors of the Titty Twister have "hired" (i.e turned if they weren't already monsters to begin with) quite a few strippers and other employees who are visibly not Hispanic/mestizo. (And, of course, once they're all revealed to be vampires, they continue to act unbiased by eating humans of all different races!) | |
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Staking the Loved One | |
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Staking the Loved One: "Richie, here is the peace in death that I could not give you in life." | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Santanico Pandemonium, quite literally — being the main attraction to the club to lure anyone thirsty enough to their deaths. | |
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Guns Are Worthless | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_eb4ee9eb | comment |
Guns Are Worthless: Subverted. Seth aims a gun at a vampire. She's unimpressed, indicating a case of Immune to Bullets. Then he fires his gun, hitting a lamp so it falls down to impale her. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: The day is saved, or at least blasted into the vampires' faces, by Seth's criminal associate Carlos. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Both the Geckos, though Seth has a few redeeming qualities. | |
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Duct Tape for Everything | |
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Duct Tape for Everything: Healing a huge bullet hole doesn't call for gauze, duct tape does the trick. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_ed68bcc9 | comment |
Dwindling Party: They lose Richie to the vampires before even fully knowing what's going on. Then Sex Machine is bitten and turns a few minutes later, proceeding to bite Frost, and in the ensuing chaos, Jacob is bitten as well. Jacob accepts that he's going to turn and fights to the end, getting shot by Scott, although the latter is bitten just after, torn apart by the vampires, and ultimately killed by his sister Kate who, along with Seth, survives the night. | |
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Silver Fox | |
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Also, a 34-year-old (at the time) George Clooney, before he became a Silver Fox. | |
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Infernal Retaliation | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_f07102a8 | comment |
Infernal Retaliation: Pete Bottoms, the clerk at the beginning. It's quite awesome. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_f3626b09 | comment |
Mercy Kill: After Richie turns into a vampire, Seth asks the other survivors to restrain him as he drives the stake through Richie's heart. After Jacob gets bitten, he has Scott and Kate promise to kill him once he turns. During the final battle, it does happen and Scott is forced to do the deed. Though not before getting bitten himself after a moment of hesitation. Kate then has to kill him as he's being devoured by vampires. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: Seth Gecko's reaction to his brother having raped and murdered their hostage while he was gone quickly fades from disgusted to 'don't do that again' and then hugs him and forgives him... sort of justified because we're apparently supposed to be shocked at the mildness of his reaction. Aside from showing Seth's blind love for his brother, it demonstrates that Affably Evil he may be, Seth is an unrepentant killer who is unperturbed by the deaths of innocents. | |
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Disguised Horror Story | |
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Disguised Horror Story: The film's famous Halfway Plot Switch turns it from a gritty New Old West crime thriller to a violent vampire horror movie, with no indication that it's coming until it happens. | |
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Trunk Shot | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_f8671289 | comment |
Trunk Shot: The script was written by Quentin Tarantino, so it's a given that one of these was included in the movie. | |
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This Is a Drill | |
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This Is a Drill: A version of this with the pneumatic stake. | |
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Running Gag | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Seth's catchphrase he uses before going into action follows a particular formula of "Ok, Xrs let's get Xing!". E.g. "Ok, ramblers, let's get rambling!", "Ok, hard drinkers, let's drink hard!" and "Ok, vampire killers, let's kill vampires!" | |
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One-Winged Angel | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_fc33ff16 | comment |
One-Winged Angel: Ugh. Let's just say you'll need some economy-size Brain Bleach after seeing Santanico's true form. | |
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Badass Preacher | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn / int_fea42091 | comment |
Badass Preacher: Jacob Fuller becomes one of these. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Richie of all people (sort of) gets one. When Scott and he are watching the strippers, Richie tells him that, if he wants a lap dance, to "just let him know." Twisted, but still... At the end, Kate, having lost her family, asks Seth if she can go with him. Seth, however, refuses to drag a young girl into his lifestyle. He pulls a large bundle of cash from the loot he and his brother had stolen, hands it to her, and tells her to go home. | |
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