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From Dusk Till Dawn (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD]
enlarge	Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Sarah Kelly Actors: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino, Rick Stribling Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Category: DVD List Price: ~~£17.99~~ Buy Used: £1.73 as of 25/11/2009 06:17 GMT details You Save: £16.26 (90%) New (22) Used (31) Collectible (1) from £1.73 Seller: zoverstocks Rating: 33 reviews Sales Rank: 2525 Format: Box set, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen, Subtitled Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 104 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5017188883238 ASIN: B00005M1Y3 Theatrical Release Date: July 31, 1998 Release Date: September 24, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! IFrom Dusk Till Dawn/I sees young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (IEl Mariachi, Desperado/I) team up with IPulp Fiction/I auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and costar) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror. Tarantino plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their bloody wake. Then they hijack a mobile home driven by a former Baptist minister (Harvey Keitel) who quit the church after his wife's death and hit the road with his two children (played by Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Heading to Mexico with their hostages, the infamous Gecko brothers arrive at the Titty Twister bar to rendezvous for a money drop, but they don't realise that they've just entered the nocturnal lair of a bloodthirsty gang of vampires! With not-so-subtle aplomb, Rodriguez and Tarantino shift into high gear with a non-stop parade of gore, gunfire and pointy-fanged mayhem featuring Salma Hayek as a snake-charming dancer whose bite is much worse than her bark. If you're a fan of Tarantino's lyrical dialogue and pop-cultural wit, you'll have fun with the road-film half of this supernatural horror-comedy, but if your taste runs more to exploding heads and eyeballs, sloppy entrails and morphing monsters, the second half provides a connoisseur's feast of gross-out excess. --IJeff Shannon, Amazon.com/IbrbOn the DVD:/b the DVDs lavish features on us. The outtakes and deleted scenes are more of the same--exploding bellies, pus, blood and naked women with large teeth. The documentary "Full Tilt Boogie" is entertaining enough; the row with the unions, which it faithfully records, raises real issues about independent filmmakers and their work force. There are two music videos, a stills gallery, a reasonably acute commentary by Rodriguez and Tarantino and material about the art direction. The film is presented in Dolby Digital and a widescreen ratio of 1.85:1 as well as an ordinary one of1.33.1. --IRoz Kaveney/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 33 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next » Titties are not the only thing twisted! November 26, 2004 Steve (Littlehampton) 14 out of 15 found this review helpful .brWhen I first saw this film on TV, I had no idea what it was about. I switched onto it 20 minutes in and watched with mild interest the developing story of two violent criminals with their hostages escaping to Mexico with a wad of loot. Only the big names and many familiar faces kept me watching. Whilst the performances were powerful, there was little in any of the characters to empathise with. I think you were supposed to quite like the cool and commanding Seth (George Clooney) as he only murdered people "he had to" (as opposed to his psycho brother Richie - played by Quentin Tarrantino - who kills, rapes at the drop of a hat and whines a lot).pIt's all a little uncomfortable and serious......until they reach the remote Mexican bar called the Titty Twister. Then it changes. The two crooks take the scared hostages (a disillusioned preacher - played by Harvey Keitel - and his two teenage kids) into this sordid nightspot. The hard customers are all bikers and truckers. There are numerous near naked beauties dancing on tables and in wall niches and here is where the film provides it's shocking twist - all the people working in the bar (including the bare babes - and the gorgeous Salma Hayek who performs a terrifically sensual table dance) are in fact Vampires. Not your Christopher Lee type, but hideous, vile flesh eaters.brIn a flash the vampires turn to their hideous state and a gory, but highly humorous battle kicks off as the vampires lay into the motley clientele. pAnyone who has seen the film Desperado will recognise many of the cast of this film.pThis is a pretty unique film and I've watched it many times now. I get great pleasure lending it to the unknowing who can benefit from the shock of the film changing from the 'escaped convicts and their hostages' drama to the horror-gore flick it ends as.pGreat fun - buy it. Everything you'd expect from a Tarantino script. June 23, 2004 Chris Rogers (England) 11 out of 12 found this review helpful "From Dusk Till Dawn" has it all; a hilarious script written by none-other than Mr. Pulp Fiction, superb direction by Robert "Desperado" Rodriguez and lashings of ultra-violence. pGeorge Clooney and Quentin Tarantino are brilliant as partners-in-crime who, on a violent killing-spree, have to make their way to the border. But that's the easy part. While Clooney may at first seem slightly mis-cast as foul-mouthed murderer Seth, it soon becomes apparent that he plays the lead character perfectly. Tarantino is equally as good as Clooney's brother.pThe plot is almost like two films in one. Watch the film and you'll see what I mean. It's like Tarantino got drunk half-way through writing a crime thriller and turned it into an ultra-violent gorefest, with the kind of insanity only present in the likes of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".pFrom Dusk Till Dawn is certainly not for the faint-hearted, and some of the gore-effects are so ridiculous they're done for laughs (much like "Kill Bill"). It has a superb cast (Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and Salma Hayek co-starring), a brilliant, completely unexpected (and equally stupid) twist, lots of over-the-top ultra-violence and hilariously cheesy special effects. Brilliant. Borrow it, buy it or steal it. Just watch it. July 2, 2002 6 out of 7 found this review helpful This is the most kick ass film I've seen in years.brI sat down not knowing what the film was about. After a couple of minutes you reckon it's a hyper violent road film about a couple of criminals.pYou settle back and enjoy the action.pHit the halfway mark and your brain flips upside down along with reality in the film and you find yourself in the middle of a vampire film.brOne of the most original and funny films I've seen. Anyone can put a twist at the end but to do it in the middle; and pull it off, takes class. A Must Have DVD. April 19, 2004 6 out of 7 found this review helpful From Dusk Til Dawn combines Tarantinos imaginative script with with the direction of Robert Rodriguez. This Horror/Crime/Thriller has two disdinct styles with the first 45 minutes reminicent to a tarantino film whilst the second half of th film takes on a life of it's own with vampires, water baloons filled with holy water and a comic performance of Tarantino as a vampire. (It makes his jaw look more excentuated than it allready is.) brDespite the comic aspects of this film, Clooney delivers a slick cool performance to rival that of Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Harvey Keitel flexes his acting muscles and Salma Hayek makes an impressionable performance with a giant snake. brRodriguez intoduces some of the cast and props from desperado (Sex machines dick like pistol,)which will give Desperado fans something to enjoy.brIn short, if you like Desperado and Pulp Fiction, you'll love this film. A GREAT FILM July 11, 2007 stuart (MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful It is exceedingly difficult to categorize such a film as "From Dusk Till Dawn". Indeed, this may be a founded difficulty, as the film seems almost like two very different films each half completed, then mashed together in the middle. At first, the film seems like a standard Tarantino film, with his standard eclectic sense of dialogue and penchant for heavy violence and frequent profanity, following the story of the Geckos, two fugitive outlaw brothers (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) on the run from the cops, trying to make it over the Mexican border with their family of hostages. (Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu) br / br /However, when they reach the seedy Mexican bar arranged as a safe-house for the Gecko brothers however, the film takes an abrupt face. That's when the Rodriguez influence takes over, and the film suddenly turns into a splatterhouse intentionally bad for the sake of being entertaining monster flick, as it is revealed that the bar's workers are none other than... get ready for this... vampires. If it sounds stupid and incredulous... well, it is, there's no doubt about it, but that doesn't stop it from being one of the most ridiculously enjoyable splatterfest black comedies around. br / br /It's an odd little combination without a doubt, but for whatever reason, the bizarre mash of Tarantino's stylish wordplay and Rodriguez's later gore-fest seems to click, and the film comes together in a surprisingly entertaining fashion. It's nice to recall in this day and age of gravitas in monster movies that it is possible to make a monster flick only for the sake of being macabre and entertaining. The vampire effects are rather terribly done, but this is probably an intentional aspect, as it fits the oddly comedic tone of the picture perfectly. Only in a movie such as this could a director get away with giving a long monologue about Vietnam before being viciously bitten by a vampire, or a guitarist playing an instrument made out of human body parts. Such instances of coal black humour make up the most memorable parts of the film. br / br /Rodriguez also manages to draw impressive performances out of his cast, especially in the case of George Clooney, playing strongly against type in one of his first film roles as Seth Gecko, the tough as nails outlaw who is forced to become a sort of antihero to survive the vampire attack. Harvey Keitel also gives a powerful performance as the father of the kidnapped family, an ex-pastor forced to re-confront matters of faith. Keitel brings a sense of class and dignity to what is without a doubt one of the silliest films he has ever taken part in. br / br /Although Quentin Tarantino has received a lot of flack for writing himself into the script, he actually gives a fine performance as Richard Gecko, Clooney's paranoid and homicidal brother. Tarantino serves as the comic relief for most of the film's first half, especially in his first scene. Juliette Lewis gives a decent performance as Keitel's daughter who is also taken hostage, but Ernest Liu as the final kid in the family gives a rather lacklustre and unbelievable performance, almost (but not quite) ruining the superb scenes when Clooney talks to his hostages while riding their stolen RV. Salma Hayek also makes a sumptuous addition to the film, performing her snake dance, one of the most memorable stripteases in film history... without even removing any clothes! br / br /For those with low thresholds for gore or swearing, or those seeking out a more realistic and enlightening film, it is doubtful From Dusk Till Dawn will prove to your tastes. But for those willing to leave reality at the door and just enjoy a ridiculous yet absurdly entertaining vampire romp complete with intentionally inferior special effects and enough blood and gore to satisfy even the most bloodthirsty viewers, fraught with comedy as black as the night, this is the film for you. 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