![]() ![]() So people were familiar with the story, but the story of the actual hospital is really funny. I sold my body to medical research experiments and that became part of the whole movie: this guy bled for the movie. I was so young that that was the only thing I experienced that was odd and strange, and everyone agreed was really funny. “I’d forgotten the one story I was trying to sell to studios as my follow-up was Red 11, because it was the only life experience I had. “I happened to be reading my book again, and that chapter where I was a human lab rat,” Rodriguez says. Given El Rey-a name Rodriguez got out of Jim Thompson’s The Getaway novel from 1958-is what the filmmaker named his TV network after, we were curious of how he views the original Seth’s fate after leaving the bloodsuckers behind. Seth’s headed to a town called El Rey with a crime boss played by Cheech Marin, and he wants to get there solo. This is the 1996 cult classic that starred George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino (who also wrote the script) as a pair of small-time criminals turned big-time vampire slayers when their strip club south of the border is discovered to be a nest for the Undead.Īs we’ve always been curious about what Rodriguez’s exact thoughts were on that film’s ending, it was a good time to bring up the final moments where Clooney’s Seth Gecko get into a car, leaving the newly orphaned Kate (Juliette Lewis) to fend for herself. In this vein, he and his children just watched From Dusk Till Dawn for the first-time together-and not the TV series either. Thus his trip was one practically across the street when he begins to reflect on the making Red 11, a new thriller intrinsically linked to his first film El Mariachi, plus those early days that’ve become something akin to filmmaking legend. ![]() Whereas most other filmmakers descend onto Austin in early March for a whirlwind of press and festivities, Rodriguez lives here and will remain long after the banners come down. Bartender Danny Trejo is the only returning cast member.When Robert Rodriguez comes by our studio during SXSW, he’s maybe a little nostalgic. Bruce Campbell and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen make cameos in the jokey opening sequence and Speigel and fellow director Kevin Smith briefly appear as vampire bait. Bo Hopkins costars as the police detective dogging Patrick's trail. Speigel, a buddy of Sam Raimi, tops both Tarantino and Rodriguez for sheer cinematic acrobatics, putting his camera in the most absurd places (even from inside the mouth of a vampire chomping down on a victim) and driving the film with adrenaline-charged overkill, but despite some clever scenes and a hilarious Psycho spoof, it turns into another aggressively trashy latex-mask and rubber-bat gorefest as cops and robbers team up against the fanged gang. A Mexican bank robbery helmed by drawling criminal Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) turns into a literal bloodbath when his crew are turned into hungry bloodsuckers. Tarantino takes a story credit on the first, a heist film coscripted and directed by Scott Speigel. The high-concept mix of southwestern criminals versus supernatural nasties proved too irresistible for either of the video-hound creators to allow it to remain dead (or undead, as the case may be), so they plotted and produced a pair of direct-to-video sequels. Heist Film Movie Groups From Dusk Till Dawn Synopsis B-movie mavens turned A-list genre fiends Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up in 1996 to take vampire gothic south of the border into spaghetti Western territory for the gory cult film "From Dusk Till Dawn". Producer: Quentin Tarantino Genre Horror. Dimension Films, A Band Apart, Los Hooligans Productions.
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