Since Dracula first graced the silver screen with his presence in 1931 vampires have become the number #1 horror icon of all time and a major staple of almost every creature feature from then on; from 1931 to 1992 Dracula reigned supreme over the screens as the most terrifying creature ever invented. With his departure after Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" the vampire genre seemed all but dead(no pun intended.) … more
I love vampire films. Just show me a film with a vampire premise on it and chances are is that I will at least rent the darned thing. Well, after I saw the horrid, embarrassingly “over-hyped” juvenile romance fantasy “Twilight Saga: New Moon” I decided to pick another vampire movie from my existing collection to get a real ‘fix’ on vampirism. Well, my friend @Count_Orlok_22 suggested I review “FROM DUSK TILL DAWN” for his vampire historians … more
If you are into completely gratuitous non-stop violence, then this movie is certainly for your. If you deplore graphic murder, mayhem, blood, gore and more of the same...over and over and over again, then you probably won't like the film very much. But wait! Let me finish... As long as you realize and accept the fact that, as another reviewer has so well stated in his review, that this is purely an exploitation movie, and if you watch it purely for the fun of seeing vampires … more
From Dusk to Dawn is a really fun movie. At first it starts out as one of those types of movies that barely holds my interest- George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino are bank robbers on the run with a hostage. They shoot an Abilene Texas Ranger and a convenience store operator and end up at a sleazy hotel with their hostage where they run into Harvey Keitel, a preacher who has lost his faith upon the death of his wife and is taking his kids to a new life in their motor home. At … more
This movie I tell you starts out as a cops and robber type deal then ends up horror film. No lie I do like the film despite its unevenness. It was kind of hard for me to "switch gears" when it turned horror, but before long, I was into it. I think Clooney and Tarantino made a great on screen duo. I liked the way they were so opposite, even though they were brothers. To me one of the BEST scenes in this film was when they have the female bank teller hostage in the motel. Clooney goes … more
Directed by Robert Rodriguez with a script written by Quentin Tarantino who also co-stars in it, this film resembles the proverbial little girl with the curl: "When it's good, it's very, very good but when it's bad...." Not much of a plot. Two psychopathic brothers (Clooney and Tarantino) kidnap a fallen-away minister (Keitel) and his two children, commandeer their van, and head south to Mexico to do business with drug dealers at The Titty Twister roadhouse. As in El Mariachi (1992) and then Desperado … more