![]() This is the fourth time Quentin’s played one of his own characters, but it’s the only time he’s done it while being directed by someone else. Brenda Hillhouse was in Pulp Fiction and ER: Motherhood. Marc Lawrence (who cameos as a motel manager) and Salma Hayek had been in Four Rooms, though not in Tarantino’s section of the film. This is Harvey Keitel’s third Tarantino role. Quentin had recently directed George Clooney in an episode of ER. Returning actors: Juliette Lewis was one of the stars of Natural Born Killers. * Santánico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) is a dancer at the bar who performs a *spectacularly* sexy routine, which brings the entire room to a standstill… right before she turns into a monster and starts eating people. His set-piece scene involves telling an earnest anecdote about Vietnam, which acts as a distraction while Sex Machine comically turns into a vamp. * Frost (Fred Williamson) is another patron who’s caught up in the chaos. He’s generally a comic-relief character with some good gags (and a pop-up gun hidden in his groin). * Sex Machine (Tom Savini) is a customer at the bar who joins forces with Seth, Jacob and the others once the vampires attack. * Razor Charlie (Danny Trejo) is the Titty Twister’s vampiric barman. (Why? Just because.) He first appears as a customs official at the US-Mexico border, then as the guy advertising all the different types of pussy available at the Titty Twister, then finally as Carlos, Seth’s contact who shows up after all the carnage. * Cheech Marin (of Cheech & Chong fame) has three discrete cameos in the film. She also interviews an FBI agent played by John Saxon. * Kelly Houge (Kelly Preston) is a TV news reporter who fills us in on he Geckos’ recent crimes, complete with on-screen tallies of how many people they’ve killed. * Kate Fuller (Juliette Lewis) is Jacob’s teenage daughter who goes through an awful lot of trauma in the story… and seems to take most of it in her stride! * Scott Fuller (Ernest Liu) is Jacob’s adopted son, who likes playing guitar. He’s on a road-trip holiday with his two kids, driving a Winnebago around the country, when the Geckos take them prisoner. * Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) is a pastor who’s going through a crisis of faith, having recently lost his wife in a car accident. * Gloria Hill (Brenda Hillhouse) is the bank teller, who we first see tied up in the Geckos’ car boot. Later, when the characters reach a bar called the Titty Twister, he’s turned into a vampire. He rapes and kills one hostage, then hallucinates that another is coming on to him. * Richie Gecko (Quentin Tarantino) is the less levelheaded, more psychotic half of the team. It’s a terrifically cool performance, full of vim and swagger. Clooney was then a TV actor but is filmed here like a movie star he often dominates the frame. As the story begins they’re on the run, having stolen a chunk of money, kidnapped a bank teller, and killed a few cops and bystanders. * Seth Gecko (George Clooney) is a bank robber who works with his brother, Richie. There’s then sudden violence, black comedy, flames and gunfire, and it ends on a grandstanding shot of the brothers arguing as they walk away from an exploding building. It’s not about what you think it’s about, but is still feeding us important information. Unbeknown to McGraw, Pete is actually in the middle of being held up by two criminals. * Pete Bottoms (John Hawkes) is the guy working in the liquor store. The part was written for the actor, making use of his slow-talking cadences and world-weary manner. * Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (Michael Parks) is a cop who stops at a liquor store in the first scene to shoot the breeze and use the toilet. Creepy and committed, it’s – by some distance – the best acting performance of his career. ![]() He convinced Quentin to play the part of Richie Gecko. (Kurtzman gets a ‘story by’ credit.) It took a few years for the film to go into production, by which time Tarantino’s friend Robert Rodriguez had been hired as director. It was a commission from Robert Kurtzman, a special-effects designer who wanted a project to showcase his new company’s talents. What does QT do? Working on From Dusk Till Dawn in about 1990 was Quentin Tarantino’s first paid scriptwriting job. Spoiler alert: these reviews reveal plot twists.Ĭriminals Seth and Richie Gecko force a family to smuggle them across the border into Mexico, where they all end up in a bar run by vampires…
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