![]() ![]() ![]() It is telling that in a recent interview, Salma Hayek was quoted as saying: “ makes me dance only for him. But their gaze is not returned by the vampire queen. As she pours alcohol down her leg into his waiting mouth, other men watch. Moving like a serpent - with a serpent (despite the actress’ fear of snakes) - Hayek is every bit the object of desire, especially for foot fetishist Tarantino. Though bikini-clad, Hayek is no caricature of the femme fatale. Its vampires - best portrayed by Hayek as the Queen bloodsucker Santanico Pandemonium - are true monsters. But FROM DUSK TIL DAWN is decidedly different. ![]() Movies like Night Shade (1996), Bordello of Blood (1996) and Club Vampire (1998) come to mind (there are many others). It is the latter - the seedy south-of-the-border “Titty Twister” strip club - that sets the stage, literally, for the di rigueur overt display of partial nudity that is to be expected of late twentieth-century vampire films. It had humor, blood (albeit green to avoid an NC-17 rating), and a biker bar. From Dusk Tile Dawn (1996)ĭuring a decade that saw undead bloodsuckers that ran the gamut from far too serious ( 1994’s Interview with the Vampire), to incredibly funny (Mel Brooks’ amusing Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), FROM DUSK TIL DAWN (1996) was actually a fresh take on the vampire mythos, combining elements of the heist thriller with a healthy dose of grindhouse gore. Distributed by Mirimax (a company co-founded, coincidentally, by Weinstein), directed by Robert Rodriguez, and written by Quentin Tarantino, it stars George Clooney (in his first film role), Tarantino, Harvey Keitel and a very young Juliette Lewis. Oh, and Salma Hayek as the most seductive of vampires - one who dances on top of a table in a skimpy bikini. This is on Tubi, but you can preorder the blu ray now from Mondo Macabro.In this current climate of post Harvey Weinstein real-life #metoo horrors, FROM DUSK TIL DAWN could easily be construed as terribly misogynistic. And obviously, this is where Salma Hayek’s character in From Dusk Till Dawn got her name. There’s also an interesting subplot about a black nun who is treated badly by everyone, including her Mother Superior, which seems a deep subject to tackle in a Mexican nunsploitation film. Where she once self-flagellated herself, now our heroine - I guess? - is making love to the other nuns when she’s not watching them hang themselves. If you want me, just think of me, I’m everywhere.” - and eats the apple he offers, all Hell breaks loose. Sure, Maria is good with medicine and animals, but once she sees Lucifer - who tells her “Call me Lucifer. That’s not to say that this movie plays it safe, but man, it had a high bar to reach. I’d compare it - obviously - to Alucarda, a movie that it has similar themes to but less eye popping visuals. Gilberto Martinez Solares also directed Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters, but there’s no way that will prepare you for this movie. The Devil has his hooves into Sister Maria and he isn’t going to let go. In our world, her acts of violent blasphemy are on the increase as she begins to realize that her job is to lead her sisters in Christ down the left hand path to Hell. ![]() Sister Maria should be living the quiet and chaste convent life, but she has a fantasy world in which she runs free and wild, the servant of Satan. ![]()
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