From Dusk Till Dawn | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Commentary 

*"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a F how crazy they are!!!"* - my all-time favorite line

"Do you think that Cheech Marin will play a third character?" Yes.

we got old Cheech, young Cheech, we got gangster Cheech, border guard Cheech, doorman Cheech, we even got Cheech for a penny! If you find Cheech cheaper than a penny...well you know

Best thing about this movie for me is that Sex Machine is played by Tom Savini who is one of (if not the) best horror special effects guys in the business, his work in Dawn of the Dead is exceptional imo

“Why would you keep a gun in a safe?” Congratulations, Simone, you are now officially an American. 😂

The foot scene with Salma Hayek must have been the highest point in Quentin Tarantino's life! Also, considering the fact that Salma Hayek seemingly hasn't aged in the last 20-25 years, I think she may actually be a vampire.

Salma Hayek dance stayed with me for very, very long time

Fun fact: the hostage at the beginning was Tarantino’s drama teacher. He looked her up and put her in the movie.

You were talking so you missed when Sex Machine introduced himself to the daughter. "My name is Kate." "Sex Machine, pleased to meet you." 😁

If I recall correctly, Tarantino wasn't responsible for the foot scene with Salma...instead, Rodriguez came up with the idea as a gift to him

When they set that guy on fire at the beginning, I always think of Tucker and Dale. “He’s crackling like a log” 😂😂😂

Say what you will about Quentin's character, but acting-wise it's his best work. It's as though the role was written just for him!

Danny Trejo had previously been one of the toughest inmates in prison. He idolized his uncle who was a drug dealer. When he got out, he wanted to change. After a few small roles, he was cast as a silent assassin in, "Desperado" ,and met Selma Hayek. He told her that before he met her, his chest tattoo was an image of her, the most beautiful woman ever. She actually befriended him and invited him to a family holiday event. This was their 2nd role together. He still appears in the small movie role, but is mostly on the Recovery and Intervention Speaker circuit. He's an inspiration to many in his community.

Can I just start some sort of movement here for my own sanity - George keeps saying my Patreon name in the end creds as D-Cuk and it's supposed to be Dee Cee UK lol. Being called a cuk is starting to affect my self esteem!

By this point, Robert Rodriguez had already done ‘El Mariachi’, and I think “Desperado’ as well, so this was Tarantino and Rodriguez basically starting their own ‘grind-house shared universe’. This is also when Tarantino and Rodriguez were at the height of popularity, so this was them basically messing with the audience, and starting the movie as one kind of genre, and ending it as another genre entirely.

"I may be an asshole but I'm not a fucking asshole"

If it hasn’t yet been mentioned, the black guy is ex-NFL star, Fred (The Hammer) Williamson. Who also was a Blaxploitation film star back in the day after his NFL career.

Best description of this I've heard is "Characters who think they are in one kind of movie discovering they are in a completely different kind of movie"

Simone's "Where do we go from here" was absolute perfection.

Apparently, the guy that plays S Machine is Tom Savini an American prosthetic makeup artist, actor, stunt performer and film director.

The sheriff at the beginning is the same character (and actor) from Kill Bill. He's a character that Tarantino and Rodriguez agreed to share since they consider him belonging to both of them. He's also in both films in Grindhouse (Planet Terror and Death Proof), again played by the same actor

Best line in that movie: "Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't care how crazy they are!"

The only time we dont blame Tarantino for his love of feet with the Salma Hayek scene

I never noticed before, but the police officer talking to Kelly Preston at 6:40 is John Saxon who is mostly known for fighting alongside Bruce Lee in "Enter the Dragon"

Sex Machine is played by legendary horror FX artist Tom Savini and the guy he steals the beer from with his whip is Greg Niccotaro who is another FX legend who is recently known for being a producer and sometimes director on the walking dead. Also, Sex Machine's weiner gun is in the movie Desperado, also directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Simone was really on the ball with guessing what was going to happen quite a few times. It took over 100 Cheech Marin's to make this movie.

"I volunteer as tribute" I think you will find there is a que for that job Simone ;)

The reveal at the end with the enormous mesoamerican temple and truck graveyard is one of the best things ever. It almost feels like they started with this image in mind and worked backwards.

The thing to remember is that actors are a different breed of cat. So, when Hayek got a role in a surprising, off-beat horror film that differed completely from any role she'd ever played before, for a director (Robert Rodriguez) she liked anyway, she probably jumped at the opportunity and laughed during every day of filming (although probably not in the monster makeup chair). "So, I let Quentin Tarantini play with my feet for a few minutes, and then I turn into a monster and savagely kill him? Okay!" 😁

The army guy is Fred Williamson, whoes known for his long career in b-movies, mostly horror and action. He kinda rules in this movie.

"George Clooney and Creature Horror" goes back a long way actually. He was in the sequel to the fantastic Attack of the Killertomatoes and he was also in Grizzly II: Revenge, an 80s Creature Feature that wasnt released til 2020.

Clooney, Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino and... the kid who played Scott (Ernest Liu). 4 major hollywood players and a guy who ended up as an assistant economics prof at Princeton.

Regarding this being an atypical role for Clooney, this was his first movie role after being the breakout star of the TV show ER, where he was the perfect good guy. So this is Clooney making a hard break from his TV image when he transitioned into movies, though he quickly worked himself back into charming, fundamentally good guy roles.

Simone singing "where do we go from here" made my day.

The foot scene was not an abuse of power. It was 100% up Hayak if she wanted to do it. They had an alternate scene ready to go if she wasn't comfortable doing it.

"Where do we go... from here?" Spike- "Oh bugger this." 😂 Once More With Feeling, is one of my favorite episodes! 😊

"Where do we go.... from here?" Once more, with Feeling!

Just wanted to say thank you SO much for not putting George's face on Salma Hayek's body.

This was the very first horror movie I ever watched. I was probably 7-8 years old. Let me tell you, Salma Hayek changed my life.

Back in the day, I loved this movie and I bought the soundtrack on CD. I took the CD to my office without listening to it first and put it in my cubicle CD player. Unbeknownst to me, each song had a snippet of audio from the movie between each song. I was across the office when Cheech started yelling P@#$%, P@#$%, P@#%%! I ran to the player and hit mute. Later, Juliette Lewis asked, Richie, would you do me a favor and...?" That CD was NSFW!

I grew up with this movie. It's actually the first film I ever have a memory of. I was about 2-3 years old and my dad would play the movie constantly (alongside Empire Strikes Back, kung fu films, and other Tarantino stuff). It seems a bit much for a 3 year old, but it helped me and my family share the best experiences later on (like seeing The Matrix in theatres, The Phantom Menace, and the rest of Tarantino's catalogue). Man... it all started here with From Dusk Till Dawn.

These dudes are watching my entire childhood in just a few years!

I haven’t heard this just guessing on my own… I think Tarantino made himself the creep so he didn’t have to put that burden on anyone else and potentially ruin their career or type cast them. But I do think that character was needed to juxtapose the real life horrors with the fantasy horror of vampires

Give Tarantino some credit, ok! He focused on playing the role and not only did Simone hate his character, but so have other reactors as well. It just shows that he did a great job If he could make you hate his character that much! Also, yeah, despite his character being an awful, disturbed person, Tarantino really did a great job & it's the best role he has done when it comes to acting.

*BEST CURSING SCENES IN HISTORY:* 1. Steve Martin in Planes, Tranes, and Automobiles 2. Cheech Marin in From Dusk Til Dawn

“Psycho do not explode when sunlight hits them, idgaf how crazy they are!” That’s my top 3 movie lines ever(in terms of humor).

Clooney's acting in this is actually unbelievably great

Ha! Maybe my social circle was an outlier, but me and my friends were all over this film when it came out. Between Pulp Fiction and Desperado, just the mention of Tarantino or Rodriguez had us bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Peak 90s film entertainment. Someday you must watch Machete.

Loved Simone cackling at Salma killing Quentin 😆😆😆

when george said, " oh, Salma Hayek" at the start, i was like, you poor innocent child, get ready.

fun fact, the guy who played sex machine is Tom Savini, a legendary special effects and make-up artist, he worked on friday the 13th, creepshow and the original dawn of the dead( he also played a biker in that as well 😆) and many others

I have to give a hell of a lot of praise now. Your thumbnails are awesome, the selection of scenes in the RU-vid edits are almost perfect and you complement each other great when it comes to emotions or information. Thank you, and please continue like this.

You're right George. That is the Sheriff in Kill Bill. All the movies that he's in are movies within the Tarantino universe.

Quentin Tarantino said that he decided to play Richie himself because he didn't want to subject someone else to playing such a creepy character.

I was so excited for you both to see this and prayed you didn't know the twist. I can't begin to tell you how amazing your reactions were when the vampires appeared!

First of all, Salma Hayek!! Although this movie is not an Oscar award winner, it is just plain, silly, outrageous fun. Love, the addition of Cheech Marin, and the addition of the large African-American gentleman whose name is Fred Williamson. A former NFL player who became moderately famous doing black exploitation movies in the late 60s and early 1970s. His nickname was “ the hammer..”

I love this movie. It starts out like a hard-boiled fugitive crime movie, and then takes a hard left turn into crazy vampire splatterhouse movie. Probably the best and most fun narrative shift in any movie.

One of the best horror movies. George Clooney was a savage.

Nice job with the editing, George! That was a blast.

I saw this with a couple friends opening night at the theater. We knew what was coming but it was pretty obvious almost no one else did. It was hilarious watching everyone freak the hell out.

I stick to my guns: The soundtrack of From Dusk Till Dawn is one of the best ever recorded on a CD. (Next to Chef Aid from South Park)

This was my intro to Harvey Keitel so I was shocked later to see him much younger speaking in his native Brooklyn accent.

I remember going to see this with some friends when it came out. No social media spoilers back in those days, it just looked like a cool crime road movie. To say we were surprised by the sudden turn of events was an understatement.

You are correct sir. The sheriff (Michael Parks) in the beginning is the same guy that played the sheriff in Kill Bill, and the deputy James Parks (his son) played his deputy in this movie and in Kill Bill.

If my memory serves me right, this, Kill Bill and the Grindhouse movies (you should definitely react to those) are essentially movies that the people in Tarantino's more grounded universe movies (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown. etc) would go and see. Hence Michael Parks' sherrif character Earl McGraw from Kill Bill appearing here but somehow revived for Kill Bill It's long rumored that Fox Force Five TV Pilot mentioned in Pulp Fiction is essentially reworked to become Kill Bill in that universe

14:00 In all fairness, Salma Hayek is hot enough that this scene might have given Quentin his foot thing. I can't stand alcohol, but I saw that scene and thought "... I get it."

I am genuinely surprised Simone hasn't heard of this movie before! I've been excited for it since you posted about it last week! Let's go! 😄

OH MY GOD DID SIMONE JUST START SINGING FROM THE BUFFY MUSICAL AND SHE JUST MADE A STAR TREK REFERENCE ON THE LAST ONE?? I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!

Now you're ready to watch Desporado (more or less the same cast, same director, same band for the soundtrack).

Bring back the Simone Woo. I am incomplete without the Simone Woo. The people scream out for the Simone Woo's return.

My mum brought this home from a 2nd hand shop when i was 14 cos she thought it was just an action film. Needless to say my mate i were very happy and then very surprised at the bar scene!

“Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them!! I don’t care of crazy they are! “. Lmao

So glad you went into this blind, been looking forward to this since last week

I think they didnt kill the vampires in the narrow hallway because the vampire bodies would then choke the hallway and trap them.

Fun facts In the original script satanico pandemonium was originally called "blonde death" and was a white woman... until tarantino saw Hayek in desperado and rewrote the whole part just to cast her. Cheech plays 3 roles. The border guard, the announcer, and the mafia guy at the end. George Clooney was the one who came up with the idea of his character having g a neck tattoo after seeing "once were warriors" The film was banned in Ireland due to the Dunblane and port arthur massacres the ban was lifted in 2004 This was Clooney first major starring role Tom savini was originally cast as frost but choose to play sex machine instead. Tom savini really is that good with a whip and really did those stunts like stealing the beer bottle (bonus fact the guy who he steals the beer from is special effects artist Greg nicotero) Tarantino cast Clooney just to play on the irony of him going from playing a Doctor working in an ER to someone who puts people in the ER Julie the Lewis got her role because she was friends with tarantino, and he asked her to playbthe part after working with her on "natural born killers" There's a deleted scene where a strippers stomach opens into a mouth and eats a patron's head... it was too graphic even for tarantino and he had it cut. Originally this was written as a sequel to "tales from the crypt: demon knight" but instead the creators chose another script that became "bordello of blood" Salma hayek is terrified of snakes and spent 2 months working with a therapist to overcome the fear I order to film her part. The scene where the strippers turn into vampires and start their carnage.... in the script was simply written as "all hell breaks loose" Also hayek's dance wasn't choreographed, she was just told to move to the music The heart that frost rips from the vampire... it's the same prop used for Jason's heart is Jason goes to hell The "no thanks I already had a wife" line was just Clooney joking around. Rodriguez felt obliged to keep it in the final film The ezekiel speech from pulp fiction was originally written for this film, specifically when Jacob is preparing his stand against the vampires. Frost and sex machine characters were largely reversed probably because the actors switched roles

Another great reaction guys. I haven’t seen this movie in more than 20 years. Gonna have to check it out it out again. 😊👏😂

Guys will see this and think, “Hell Yeah!”.

This is my favorite vampire movie of all time! Still can’t believe my step dad showed me this movie when I was 9 😂 the 90s were wild.

Tom Savini (Sex Machine) is a special effects and make-up master. He did special effects for Friday the 13th 1 and 4, the og Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow and Creepshow 2, Maniac, The Prowler... He directed the 90's remake of Night of the Living Dead. Guy's a legend. There's a couple documentaries about him that are worth watching.

This movie was the perfect antidote to too many people taking movies too seriously too much of the time.

The thing is did Quentin have a feet fetish before or after he wrote this because he may have just that it was fun but after Selma Hayek did that scene it may have been an awakening for him.

So, I first saw maybe the last 20 minutes of this movie when I walked into the lounge of my students hall at University. A few days later I went into the lounge again and saw it from almost the beginning of the film and it took me a while to realise that it was the same film... The change of tone was incredible 😂😂

23:21 Sex Machine is played by Tom Savini. He is a creature effects legend and worked on the prosthetics and creature effects for this movie too.

Tom Savini aka Sex Machine is a make-up artist and actor who worked on and played parts in many of George A. Romero films. Savini's first two films being Romero's Martin, and Dawn of the Dead in 78. Savini even directed a remake in 1990 of the 68 Romero's film Night of the living Dead, and had a cameo in the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake.

Tarantino's Death Proof needs to go on your watchlist (and Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez). Together they make up the double feature Grindhouse.

There's a TV show as well, set in this universe also done by Rodriguez and it's pretty good! I love the grindhouse films.

The green blood for censors was a 90's thing overall, too. Mortal Kombat 2 was infamously censored with green blood on the SNES and Genesis (as well as changed/darkened fatalities) in order to be released. Knowing the ABACABB code was something many 90's teens bragged about.

Earl McGraw is a character that shows up in several of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s movies. The actor who played his son in kill Bill also shows up in the sequel to this movie.

Sex Machine’s codpiece pistol should be forever on display in the Louvre.

And again....the Band played by Tito Tarantula...you should watch the Desperado "Trilogy".

When my friends and I rented this from the local video store we immediately rewound it and we watched it once our other friends arrived.

The lead singer of the band in this movie was also the lead singer of the band they showed at the beginning of the original Road House, when we get introduced to swayze's character.

Juliette Lewis's best film is Kalifornia. You should look it up.

When I was very small an old writer asked me "how do you kill a werewolf?" Snap react I said "silver bullet," to which he said, no, it's your story, it ends how you end it however you end it.

Michael Parks is a character actor from the 1960s and yes he played the Sherrif in Kill Bill. Parks was famous in the late 1960s for being in a TV show called Then Came Bronson.

I was a uni student when this came out. I had no idea what it was going to be. No idea. I wasn't sure even for the title. Watched it, loved the first part, shocked with the transition, loved the whole thing to 11. I bought the DVD as soon as it was available and I also bought the OST on CD. To this day one of the most fun movies and easy to watch again and again. Great reaction guys and I am glad you enjoyed it.

You are the first people I have ever known to guess from the name and poster that vampires would be involved on this serial killer road trip. Your media literacy rocks Simone.

The personal issues with Tarantino are hilarious.

Saw this in the theater and didn't pay attention to the poster....Wow, what a shocker! Loved the soundtrack and ripped it to MP3. I was driving a shuttle bus of coworkers to a conference an hour up the road in Santa Barbara and forgot I had the sound clips from the movie while playing a collection of tunes on Bluetooth. Then I heard Juliette say, "Ritchie, would you do me a fav.... and I smashed the power button on the radio just in time.

It’s funny that they say that they couldn’t picture Clooney in a vampire flick. But this is the first George Clooney movie I saw when it first came to home video