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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: After Jacob gets bitten, he has Scott and Kate promise to kill him once he turns. During the final battle, it does happen and Scott is forced to do the deed. Though not before getting bitten himself after a moment of hesitation. Kate then has to kill him as hes being devoured by vampires.]]
* MsFanservice: SalmaHayek and other strippers.
* MsFanservice: SalmaHayek and other strippers.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: After Jacob gets bitten, he has Scott and Kate promise to kill him once he turns. During the final battle, it does happen and Scott is forced to do the deed. Though not before getting bitten himself after a moment of hesitation. Kate then has to kill him as hes he's being devoured by vampires.]]
* MsFanservice: SalmaHayek and other strippers. At first.
* MsFanservice: SalmaHayek and other strippers. At first.
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** They merged with the Bat, ruler of underworld and darkness in Mayan culture.
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** They merged with the Bat, ruler of the underworld and darkness in Mayan culture.
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** Also, a 37 years old George Clooney in his most attractive forms.
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** Also, a 37 years old George Clooney in his most attractive forms.form.
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* DuctTapeForEverything - Healing a huge bullet hole doesn't call for gauze, duct tape does the trick.
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* DuctTapeForEverything - Healing a huge bullet hole doesn't call for gauze : duct tape does the trick.
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* DuctTapeForEverything - Healing a huge bullet hole doesn't call for gauze : gauze, duct tape does the trick.
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* {{Downer Ending}} - [[spoiler: Seth and Kate are the only survivors by the end of the ordeal. Kate offers to go with him but Seth declines admitting he is not evil enough to pull her into his lifestyle and they part ways. Kate by herself in her now dead family's RV.]]
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* {{Downer Ending}} - [[spoiler: Seth and Kate are the only survivors by the end of the ordeal. Kate offers to go with him but Seth declines admitting he is not evil enough to pull her into his lifestyle and they part ways. Kate is left by herself in her now dead family's RV.]]
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* {{Anyone Can Die}} - And boy howdy do they by the 2nd half of the flick.
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* {{Anyone Can Die}} - And boy howdy do they by the 2nd second half of the flick.
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* BodyHorror: Some of the victims once they turn. Most notable Sex Machine [[spoiler: after he gets his head pulled off. This doesn't kill him rather it activates a whole new mutation in what can be described as a skinless oversized rat.]]
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* BodyHorror: Some of the victims once they turn. Most notable Sex Machine [[spoiler: after he gets his head pulled off. This doesn't kill him him, rather it activates a whole new mutation in what can be described as a skinless oversized rat.]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Whereas vampires in many other movies are often played up as the twisted, tormented former humans they actually are, here the bloodsuckers are depicted as either this trope or mindless animals who roar and snarl. (Satanico is the only one of these creatures who retains more than a modicum of her humanity, and then only in the intellectual sense - and ''certainly'' [[CompleteMonster not in the moral sense]].)
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Whereas vampires in many other movies are often played up as the twisted, tormented former humans they actually are, here the bloodsuckers are depicted as either this trope or mindless animals who roar and snarl. (Satanico is the only one of these creatures who retains more than a modicum of her humanity, and then only in the intellectual sense - and ''certainly'' [[CompleteMonster not in the moral sense]].sense.)
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - Being an insane serial rapist is what makes Richard Gecko [[CompleteMonster irredeemable]] in the audience's eyes, unlike his NobleDemon brother who is [[EvenEvilHasStandards above that]].
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - Being an insane serial rapist is what makes Richard Gecko [[CompleteMonster irredeemable]] irredeemable in the audience's eyes, unlike his NobleDemon brother who is [[EvenEvilHasStandards above that]].
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* MaleGaze - Used to rare, non-titillating effect to show how Richie Gecko looks at Kate Fuller. It tries to put the audience into Richie's headspace... which is ''not'' a pleasant place to be.
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* Tap on The Head TapOnTheHead - Seth knocks out Richie at the border.
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* What Could Have Been - The "Ezekiel" speech from Pulp Fiction was originally supposed to be Jacob preparing his stand against the vampires.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Satanico's father in the third movie. Despite being bitten and instantly turned by Satanico. He doesn't succumb to being evil (not at the moment anyway) and opens the gate out of the pubelo allowing Johnny and Ambrose to escape. He even gets his revenge on his ex-wife by impaling her with the gate trap and letting the sun finish the job.
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* SkepticNoLonger: This film provides the page quote for the trope.
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-->'''Seth''':''Now I don't wanna hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires", because'' I ''don't fucking believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw is fucking vampires. Now do we all agree that what we are dealing with is vampires?''
-->'''Seth''':''Now I don't wanna hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires", because'' I ''don't fucking believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw is fucking vampires. Now do we all agree that what we are dealing with is vampires?''
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** SalmaHayek has all of ten minutes screentime half way through the movie and is one of the most memorable things in it.
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** SalmaHayek has all of ten minutes screentime half way through the movie and is one of the most memorable things in it. Her face is prominently on the cover of the box, for God's sake.
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*** [[DeletedScene Seth beared witness]] to the answer. Accompanied by [[WordOfGod commentary]] from RobertRodriguez. [[spoiler: During the chaos of the initial feeding frenzy sparked by his brother's murder he stumbles upon this vamp (sans hole) happily laying upon the lap of her [[FrozenFace newly]] [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse paralysed victim]] (after first [[TakeThatKiss playing with her food]]). She spots Seth (to her apparent [[SlasherSmile glee]]) and [[DropWhatYouAreDoing perks up]], climbing up off her victim and standing before Seth, apparently disregarding him for the new one. Or so he hoped. In full view of Seth she pulls her victim up into an embrace before pushing him headfirst down her naked body to her bulging stomach by way of a "dance" while said-victim quietly gibbers/begs Seth to help him. Her [[BodyHorror belly rips open]] revealing a carvernous "shark-mouth" where [[Film/TheThing the stomach should be]]. Terror-struck Seth can only watch as the man's head is shoved by the vampire and is [[GoryDiscretionShot bitten off]] (with a sickening CRUNCH!) leaving the vampire with a bloody fanged maw for a stomach and a ragdoll corpse. When she advances on Seth, he finds his legs at last.]] NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJjIzU7k4Y#t=3m12s
*** [[DeletedScene Seth beared witness]] to the answer. Accompanied by [[WordOfGod commentary]] from RobertRodriguez. [[spoiler: During the chaos of the initial feeding frenzy sparked by his brother's murder he stumbles upon this vamp (sans hole) happily laying upon the lap of her [[FrozenFace newly]] [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse paralysed victim]] (after first [[TakeThatKiss playing with her food]]). She spots Seth (to her apparent [[SlasherSmile glee]]) and [[DropWhatYouAreDoing perks up]], climbing up off her victim and standing before Seth, apparently disregarding him for the new one. Or so he hoped. In full view of Seth she pulls her victim up into an embrace before pushing him headfirst down her naked body to her bulging stomach by way of a "dance" while said-victim quietly gibbers/begs Seth to help him. Her [[BodyHorror belly rips open]] revealing a carvernous "shark-mouth" where [[Film/TheThing the stomach should be]]. Terror-struck Seth can only watch as the man's head is shoved by the vampire and is [[GoryDiscretionShot bitten off]] (with a sickening CRUNCH!) leaving the vampire with a bloody fanged maw for a stomach and a ragdoll corpse. When she advances on Seth, he finds his legs at last.]] NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJjIzU7k4Y#t=3m12s
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* RockMeAsmodeus - The satanic musicians in the bar, with [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel guitars made of living flesh]].
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*** [[DeletedScene Seth beared witness]] to the answer. Accompanied by [[WordOfGod commentary]] from RobertRodriguez. [[spoiler: During the chaos of the initial feeding frenzy sparked by his brother's murder he stumbles upon this vamp (sans hole) happily laying upon the lap of her [[FrozenFace newly]] [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse paralysed victim]] (after first [[TakeThatKiss playing with her food]]). She spots Seth (to her apparent [[SlasherSmile glee]]) and [[DropWhatYouAreDoing perks up]], climbing up off her victim and standing before Seth, apparently disregarding him for the new one. Or so he hoped. In full view of Seth she pulls her victim up into an embrace before pushing him headfirst down her naked body to her bulging stomach by way of a "dance" while said-victim quietly gibbers/begs Seth to help him. Her [[BodyHorror belly rips open]] revealing a carvernous "shark-mouth" where [[Film/TheThing the stomach should be]]. Terror-struck Seth can only watch as the man's head is shoved by the vampire and is [[GoryDiscretionShot bitten off]] (with a sickening [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CRUNCH!]]) CRUNCH!) leaving the vampire with a bloody fanged maw for a stomach and a ragdoll corpse. When she advances on Seth, he finds his legs at last.]] NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJjIzU7k4Y#t=3m12s
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The series got two DirectToVideo sequels, though sharing none of the creative cast and not following any of the characters introduced in the first film with the only connecting thread being the vampire bar/lair, The Titty Twister. They're usually considered InNameOnly by some fans, though [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]].
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*** [[DeletedScene Seth beared witness]] to the answer. Accompanied by [[WordOfGod commentary]] from RobertRodriguez. [[spoiler: During the chaos of the initial feeding frenzy sparked by his brother's murder he stumbles upon this vamp (sans hole) happily laying upon the lap of her [[FrozenFace newly]] [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse paralysed victim]] (after first [[TakeThatKiss playing with her food]]). She spots Seth (to her apparent [[SlasherSmile glee]]) and [[DropWhatYouAreDoing perks up]], climbing up off her victim and standing before Seth, apparently disregarding him for the new one. Or so he hoped. In full view of Seth she pulls her victim up into an embrace before pushing him headfirst down her naked body to her bulging stomach by way of a "dance" while said-victim quietly gibbers/begs Seth to help him. Her [[BodyHorror belly rips open]] revealing a carvernous "shark-mouth" where [[TheThing the stomach should be]]. Terror-struck Seth can only watch as the man's head is shoved by the vampire and is [[GoryDiscretionShot bitten off]] (with a sickening [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CRUNCH!]]) leaving the vampire with a bloody fanged maw for a stomach and a ragdoll corpse. When she advances on Seth, he finds his legs at last.]] NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJjIzU7k4Y#t=3m12s
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*** [[DeletedScene Seth beared witness]] to the answer. Accompanied by [[WordOfGod commentary]] from RobertRodriguez. [[spoiler: During the chaos of the initial feeding frenzy sparked by his brother's murder he stumbles upon this vamp (sans hole) happily laying upon the lap of her [[FrozenFace newly]] [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse paralysed victim]] (after first [[TakeThatKiss playing with her food]]). She spots Seth (to her apparent [[SlasherSmile glee]]) and [[DropWhatYouAreDoing perks up]], climbing up off her victim and standing before Seth, apparently disregarding him for the new one. Or so he hoped. In full view of Seth she pulls her victim up into an embrace before pushing him headfirst down her naked body to her bulging stomach by way of a "dance" while said-victim quietly gibbers/begs Seth to help him. Her [[BodyHorror belly rips open]] revealing a carvernous "shark-mouth" where [[TheThing [[Film/TheThing the stomach should be]]. Terror-struck Seth can only watch as the man's head is shoved by the vampire and is [[GoryDiscretionShot bitten off]] (with a sickening [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CRUNCH!]]) leaving the vampire with a bloody fanged maw for a stomach and a ragdoll corpse. When she advances on Seth, he finds his legs at last.]] NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJjIzU7k4Y#t=3m12s
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* '' From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money'': Deals with a group of robbers planning a heist. One of them stumbles across the Titty Twister from the first film (it's implied this movie takes place sometime before the first) and ends up getting bitten spreading the vampirism to most of his fellow robbers, save for one who's forced to team up with the local sheriff to take them down.
* ''From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter'': A {{Prequel}} set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a pueblo in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and many fans admit it's a much better sequel than ''Blood Money'' was.
* ''From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter'': A {{Prequel}} set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a pueblo in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and many fans admit it's a much better sequel than ''Blood Money'' was.
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* '' From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money'': Money'' (1999): Deals with a group of robbers planning a heist. One of them stumbles across the Titty Twister from the first film (it's implied this movie takes place sometime before the first) and ends up getting bitten spreading the vampirism to most of his fellow robbers, save for one who's forced to team up with the local sheriff to take them down.
* ''From *''From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter'': Daughter'' (2000): A {{Prequel}} set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a pueblo in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and many fans admit it's a much better sequel than ''Blood Money'' was.
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There's also the documentary ''Full Tilt Boogie'' which details the making of the first movie in addition to showing the cast and crew just messing around.
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The series got two InNameOnly DirectToVideo sequels, sharing none of the creative cast and not following any of the characters introduced in the first film. However it doesn't mean they're not watchable. The second flick, subtitled ''Texas Blood Money'', deals with a group of robbers planning a heist. One of them stumbles across the Titty Twister from the first film (it's implied this movie takes place sometime before the first) and ends up getting bitten spreading the vampirism to most of his fellow robbers, save for one who's forced to team up with the local sheriff to take them down. The third flick, ''The Hangman's Daughter'', is a prequel set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a bordello in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and a lot of fans admit it's a much better sequel than Blood Money was.
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* '' From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas BloodMoney'', deals Money'': Deals with a group of robbers planning a heist. One of them stumbles across the Titty Twister from the first film (it's implied this movie takes place sometime before the first) and ends up getting bitten spreading the vampirism to most of his fellow robbers, save for one who's forced to team up with the local sheriff to take them down. down.
*''From Dusk till Dawn 3: Thethird flick, ''The Hangman's Daughter'', is a prequel Daughter'': A {{Prequel}} set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a bordello pueblo in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and a lot of many fans admit it's a much better sequel than Blood Money ''Blood Money'' was.
* '' From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood
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The series got two InNameOnly DirectToVideo sequels, sharing none of the creative cast and not following any of the characters introduced in the first film. However it doesn't mean they're not watchable. The second flick flick, subtitled ''Texas Blood Money'' deal Money'', deals with a group of robbers planning a heist. One of them stumbles across the Titty Twister from the first film (it's implied this movie takes place sometime before the first) and ends up getting bitten spreading the vampirism to most of his fellow robbers robbers, save for one who's forced to team up with the local sheriff to take them down. The third flick, ''The Hangman's Daughter'', is a prequel set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a bordello in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and a lot of fans admit it's a much better sequel than Blood Money was.
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A trilogy of films, started in 1996. The first film in the series was directed by RobertRodriguez, written by QuentinTarantino and starring GeorgeClooney, QuentinTarantino, HarveyKeitel, and JulietteLewis.
The plot centers around the Gecko brothers, two dyed-in-the-wool criminals on the run from the police after a prison break. Causing death and destruction wherever they go, they eventually manage to sneak past the Mexican border by taking a father and his two kids hostage. They go to a trucker bar, the Titty Twister, to spend the night as they wait for their rendezvous. What happens at this point is that what should be a very sudden and unexpected GenreShift occurs when it turns out that the bar is a front for a clan of vampires and they have to fight for their survival through the night (hence the title). Of course, this has become [[ItWasHisSled widely]] [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil spoiled]] and as such, loses most of its effect (in fact, many a person probably rented the film and wondered where the hell the vampires were for the first half).
The film, while fun, didn't make that great of an impact and is now mostly watched by QuentinTarantino fans. Much of the criticism against the film is that regardless whether or not the second half is viewed as passable, most people will admit that it was a definite drop-off in quality compared to the first half.
The series got two InNameOnly DirectToVideo sequels, sharing none of the creative cast and not following any of the characters introduced in the first film. However it doesn't mean they're not watchable. The second flick subtitled ''Texas Blood Money'' deal with a group of robbers planning a heist. One of them stumbles across the Titty Twister from the first film (it's implied this movie takes place sometime before the first) and ends up getting bitten spreading the vampirism to most of his fellow robbers save for one who's forced to team up with the local sheriff to take them down. The third flick, ''The Hangman's Daughter'', is a prequel set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a bordello in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and a lot of fans admit it's a much better sequel than Blood Money was.
There was also a PC videogame that next to nobody remembers. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames This is probably for the better...]]
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!!The 1996 film provides examples of:
* [[ActingForTwo Acting for Three]] - [[CheechAndChong Cheech Marin]] plays three distinctly different characters; the border cop, the announcer at the bar, and the Mexican mafia dude who shows up at the end.
* AllAsiansAreAlike: Seth is dumbfounded to learn that Scott is Jacob Fuller's son, pointing out that Jacob doesn't look Japanese. Jacob retorts that Scott doesn't either, because he's ''Chinese''. Seth "apologizes" for this mistake with [[{{Jerkass}} "Well, excuse me all to hell."]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Whereas vampires in many other movies are often played up as the twisted, tormented former humans they actually are, here the bloodsuckers are depicted as either this trope or mindless animals who roar and snarl. (Satanico is the only one of these creatures who retains more than a modicum of her humanity, and then only in the intellectual sense - and ''certainly'' [[CompleteMonster not in the moral sense]].)
* {{Anyone Can Die}} - And boy howdy do they by the 2nd half of the flick.
* AuthorAppeal - Quentin Tarantino's famous foot fetish reaches new heights.
* AxCrazy - Richard Gecko, a bloodthirsty psychopath and rapist.
* BadassPreacher - Jacob Fuller becomes one of these.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy - AmbroseBierce appears in the third film, which missed its opportunity for a GeniusBonus by ''not'' explaining the author's RealLife disappearance this way.
* BigBad - Strange, semi-subverted example. Satanico clearly seems to be the leader of the vampires but [[IncrediblyLamePun she bites it]] half way through and the situation becomes one more similar to a zombie movie (only with vampires) with the vampires as a mob of faceless undead monsters.
* BlackAndGreyMorality - The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but, when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they are the guys you want to root for.
* BodyHorror: Some of the victims once they turn. Most notable Sex Machine [[spoiler: after he gets his head pulled off. This doesn't kill him rather it activates a whole new mutation in what can be described as a skinless oversized rat.]]
* BondOneLiner - When he's about to be turned into a vampire (almost), and being told, "Welcome to slavery!" Seth remarks, "No thanks; [[TakeThat I already have a wife]]."
* BookEnds - The song "Dark Night" plays as the main characters drive away from a thoroughly destroyed building.
** The same Aztec-style pyramid, partially embedded in a cliff, is revealed in the last shot of both the first and the third film.
* {{Camp}} - The flick thoroughly revels in its cheesiness.
* CaptainObvious - This exchange between Kate and Richie:
--> ''So, what's [[SouthOfTheBorder in Mexico]]?''
--> ''Mexicans.''
* ChainsawGood - A version of this with the pneumatic stake.
* ClusterFBomb - Most notably Chet Pussy's sales pitch, but nearly all of the characters swear profusely on at least one occasion.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies
* ContinuityNod - Sex Machine's crotch gun can be seen in another [[RobertRodriguez Rodriguez]] flick - {{Desperado}}. [[SalmaHayek Carolina]] pulls it out of [[AntonioBanderas El Mariachi's]] guitar case o' weapons, and El awkwardly replies that it's saved his life on a number of occasions.
** If you get a good look at the burger bags Seth brings back to the motel room, the restaurant logo says they came from [[PulpFiction Big Kahuna Burger]].
** Michael Parks appears in the beginning as Texas Ranger Earl Mcgraw, a recurring character of Rodriguez's and Tarantino's who also shows up in ''KillBill'' and both films in ''{{Grindhouse}}''. He dies here, but it's anyone's guess whether this indicates ''From Dusk Till Dawn'' takes place after the other films.
* CoolOldGuy - Harvey Keitel as Jacob Fuller.
* {{Determinator}} - Seth absolutely refuses to give up hope, even when it looks like [[spoiler: he and Kate]] are about to be vampirized for sure. [[spoiler: Fortunately, they're saved by the film's BigDamnHeroes.]]
* DesignatedGirlFight: Averted. Several female vampires and Kate doesn't kill any of them, only visibly killing males.
* {{Downer Ending}} - [[spoiler: Seth and Kate are the only survivors by the end of the ordeal. Kate offers to go with him but Seth declines admitting he is not evil enough to pull her into his lifestyle and they part ways. Kate by herself in her now dead family's RV.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything - Healing a huge bullet hole doesn't call for gauze : duct tape does the trick.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The proprietors of the Titty Twister have "hired" (i.e turned if they weren't already monsters to begin with) quite a few strippers and other employees who are visibly not Hispanic/mestizo. (And, of course, once they're all revealed to be vampires, they continue to act unbiased by ''eating'' humans of all different races!)
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Seth Gecko, who doesn't have any compunctions against killing hostages, chastises his AxCrazy brother Richard for raping everything in sight and using wanton violence to resolve problems.
-->''I may be a bastard, but I'm not a [[StealthPun fuckin']] bastard''
* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: When she's played by SalmaHayek, how could it be otherwise?
* EvilVersusEvil - A duo of robbers and murderers versus bloodsucking undead.
* FanService - The staff of the Titty Twister, especially Salma Hayek. Rapidly changes to FanDisservice when they turn into a bunch of monsters and start eating everyone.
* FeatherBoaConstrictor - Ladies and gentlemen, behold the world's luckiest snake.
* FootFocus - Tarantino film, nuff said.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Richard [[YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses (until his glasses are broken by an angry punch from Seth)]].
* FridgeLogic - Sex Machine's crotch gun. Now, ignoring the fact that the cylinders cannot feed the gun the way they are positioned, it looks to be a pretty large caliber. If you were to fire that thing, you would be committing a GroinAttack. On yourself.
* GameFace
* GlassesPull: Inverted, when Jacob turns from protective father to ass-kicking padre.
-->'''Seth:''' So what are you, Jacob? A faithless preacher? Or a mean motherfuckin' servant of God?
-->'''Jacob:''' [puts on glasses] I'm a mean... mhm mhm servant of God.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch - One of the premier ones, sadly [[ItWasHisSled spoiled thoroughly]]. In fact, the original name of the trope was just the name of this movie.
** There were actually theatre-goers who said, ''out loud'', at the point of the switch, "Wait, [[GenreBusting what the hell kind of movie is this]]?!"
* HeyItsThatGuy: Kelly Preston is the [[KentBrockmanNews Kent Brockman News Reporter]].
* HotAsHell - Not {{Satan}} herself but Satanico Pandemonium fits to a T.
* HypocriticalHumor: "I didn't say 'Do what I do.' I said 'Do what I say.' "
* ImMelting - Vampire bodies dissolve into a sickly green goo shortly after death.
* ImagineSpot: "Richie, will you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me? Pleeease?"
* ImprovisedWeapon - Quite literally by the truckload.
* InfernalRetaliation - The clerk at the beginning. It's quite awesome.
* LargeHam - [[WorldOfHam Pretty much everybody]] gets to ham it up in this.
* LampshadeHanging and MadeOfPlasticine: Vampires have super-strength, but take hits like monsters made of playdough, as noted by the cast.
* LoopholeAbuse - Upon being told that the Titty Twister is only open to truckers and bikers, Jacob notes that, technically, he ''is'' a truck ''driver'', as his RV requires a truck license to legally operate. The guys questioning him can't prove him wrong, so they let him and the rest of the gang stay in the bar.
* ManOnFire - The clerk at Benny's World of Liquor earns some cool points by continuing to fire on the Geckos after being lit aflame.
* MathematiciansAnswer -
-->'''Kate:''' Where are we going?
-->'''Richie:''' Mexico.
-->'''Kate:''' What's in Mexico?
-->'''Richie:''' Mexicans.
* {{Mayincatec}} - [[spoiler: The Titty Twister is located on top of a long buried, thousand years old sacrificial pyramid.]] Doesn't really explain how its inhabitants became vampires though.
** They merged with the Bat, ruler of underworld and darkness in Mayan culture.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: After Jacob gets bitten, he has Scott and Kate promise to kill him once he turns. During the final battle, it does happen and Scott is forced to do the deed. Though not before getting bitten himself after a moment of hesitation. Kate then has to kill him as hes being devoured by vampires.]]
* MsFanservice: SalmaHayek and other strippers.
* NewOldWest - It's basically another "fight-in-a-saloon" movie, but with Mexicans. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent And vampires.]]
* NightOfTheLivingMooks - A rather weird example in that the vampires begin with a clear leader in Satanico and are clearly individuals with personality themselves, but once they are killed the ''subsequent'' vampires are interchangeable faceless undead monsters. Curiously though some of the vampires can shift into different forms.
* NobleDemon - Seth Gecko. He even declines taking Kate with him in the end feeling a tad guilty for being the reason her family is dead.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Jacob and Sex Machine in the first movie. Though it takes two shot to bring down the former (as Scott only blew off half his face the first shot) and it doesn't kill the latter (See Body Horror).]] The third movie has an undead mook who has this happen but he just replaces the head with a cobra before that ends up getting shot off.
* OhCrap - [[spoiler: Sex Machine]], after realizing that he's been turned into a vampire - and that his former friends will kill him as soon as they find out.
* OneSceneWonder
** Cheech Marin in all three of his roles.
** SalmaHayek has all of ten minutes screentime half way through the movie and is one of the most memorable things in it.
* OneWingedAngel - Ugh. Let's just say you'll need some economy-size BrainBleach after seeing Satanico's true form.
* OnlyAFleshWound - Averted; all the duct tape does for Richard is keep his hand from bleeding after it gets a hole shot through it. He never uses it afterwards (and at one point yells and drops a set of keys when they hit it).
* OurVampiresAreDifferent - While they have all of the standard weaknesses, they were designed to appear more as just pure monsters than merely humans with fangs. It also subverts NoOntologicalInertia as killing a vampire that bites you doesn't stop you from turning into one.
* PantyShot: An "around-her-ankles" example rather than the standard upskirt peek, but the border patrol guy still gets an eyeful when he spies Kate sitting on the toilet (pretending to defecate so that the agent will leave and not notice the Gecko brothers hiding behind the shower curtain).
* PlayingAgainstType
** George Clooney was famous for playing a doctor in ''{{ER}}'' before being cast in this role.
** Tough Brooklyn-born Jew Keitel is a soft-spoken Southern preacher...[[spoiler: and a vampire]].
* {{Prequel}}: The third movie.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - Being an insane serial rapist is what makes Richard Gecko [[CompleteMonster irredeemable]] in the audience's eyes, unlike his NobleDemon brother who is [[EvenEvilHasStandards above that]].
* RockMeAsmodeus - The satanic musicians in the bar, with [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel guitars made of living flesh]].
* TheSavageSouth: [[SarcasmMode Because the Mexican border really is full of banditos and vampires.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran - Frost, a KnifeNut 'Nam vet.
* ShoutOut - When asked whether an improvised cross made from table legs or something would work, Tom Savini's character replies "PeterCushing does it [[HammerHorror all the time.]]"
** In the third movie, the titular hangman [[{{Castlevania}} wields a whip]].
** A [[NotSafeForWork nude]] vampire appears alongside [[http://postimage.org/image/1u71mthhg/ with three others]] to [[MexicanStandOff face down Seth and the surviving adult cast]] with a large, gaping and bloody [[PlotHole hole]] in her stomach with [[OffstageVillainy no explanation why.]]
*** [[DeletedScene Seth beared witness]] to the answer. Accompanied by [[WordOfGod commentary]] from RobertRodriguez. [[spoiler: During the chaos of the initial feeding frenzy sparked by his brother's murder he stumbles upon this vamp (sans hole) happily laying upon the lap of her [[FrozenFace newly]] [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse paralysed victim]] (after first [[TakeThatKiss playing with her food]]). She spots Seth (to her apparent [[SlasherSmile glee]]) and [[DropWhatYouAreDoing perks up]], climbing up off her victim and standing before Seth, apparently disregarding him for the new one. Or so he hoped. In full view of Seth she pulls her victim up into an embrace before pushing him headfirst down her naked body to her bulging stomach by way of a "dance" while said-victim quietly gibbers/begs Seth to help him. Her [[BodyHorror belly rips open]] revealing a carvernous "shark-mouth" where [[TheThing the stomach should be]]. Terror-struck Seth can only watch as the man's head is shoved by the vampire and is [[GoryDiscretionShot bitten off]] (with a sickening [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CRUNCH!]]) leaving the vampire with a bloody fanged maw for a stomach and a ragdoll corpse. When she advances on Seth, he finds his legs at last.]] NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJjIzU7k4Y#t=3m12s
* SlasherSmile - [[spoiler: Frost]] has an ''enormous'' one after he's turned into a vampire by [[spoiler: Sex Machine]].
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
* SouthOfTheBorder - Mexico, the land of gangsters, strippers, and vampires.
* SpicyLatina - A whole stripper bar of them! With SalmaHayek as their queen-goddess.
* [[SpiritualSequel Spiritual Prequel ]] - Arguably to GrindHouse.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler: "Richie, here is the peace in death that I could not give you in life."]]
* StealthParody - Of both horror and heist films.
* TattooedCrook - Seth.
* TookALevelInBadass - Kate can barely even choke down a shot of whiskey when she first arrives at the Titty Twister, but has become a viciously clever vampire-killer by the movie's end.
* TheVirus - How vampirism is treated with a hint of {{Hive Mind}}.
* TrunkShot - The script was written by QuentinTarantino, so it's a given that one of these was included in the movie.
* VirusVictimSymptoms - Played for laughs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: SalmaHayek is a real-life ophidiophobe, such that she almost didn't take the part of Satanico Pandemonium because of it. RobertRodriguez conned her into thinking that {{Madonna}} was ready to take the part instead, so she spent two months with therapists in order to overcome her fear of snakes.
* WrongGenreSavvy - The hostages, particularly Scott Fuller, have all the GenreSavvy needed to survive in a heist film or hostage taking film. Scott even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by telling his father "I've seen this on TV Dad!" Pity for them the bar the Gecko Brothers choose to stop is full of ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Fricking Vampire]] [[FanService Strippers!]]''
* YourVampiresSuck - All you need to do to keep these vampires at bay are two sticks put together to make a cross. Or ANYTHING resembling one. Hell, even the Red Cross of Ambulances does the trick.
** Course numbers are another thing entirely.
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A trilogy of films, started in 1996. The first film in the series was directed by RobertRodriguez, written by QuentinTarantino and starring GeorgeClooney, QuentinTarantino, HarveyKeitel, and JulietteLewis.
The plot centers around the Gecko brothers, two dyed-in-the-wool criminals on the run from the police after a prison break. Causing death and destruction wherever they go, they eventually manage to sneak past the Mexican border by taking a father and his two kids hostage. They go to a trucker bar, the Titty Twister, to spend the night as they wait for their rendezvous. What happens at this point is that what should be a very sudden and unexpected GenreShift occurs when it turns out that the bar is a front for a clan of vampires and they have to fight for their survival through the night (hence the title). Of course, this has become [[ItWasHisSled widely]] [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil spoiled]] and as such, loses most of its effect (in fact, many a person probably rented the film and wondered where the hell the vampires were for the first half).
The film, while fun, didn't make that great of an impact and is now mostly watched by QuentinTarantino fans. Much of the criticism against the film is that regardless whether or not the second half is viewed as passable, most people will admit that it was a definite drop-off in quality compared to the first half.
The series got two InNameOnly DirectToVideo sequels, sharing none of the creative cast and not following any of the characters introduced in the first film. However it doesn't mean they're not watchable. The second flick subtitled ''Texas Blood Money'' deal with a group of robbers planning a heist. One of them stumbles across the Titty Twister from the first film (it's implied this movie takes place sometime before the first) and ends up getting bitten spreading the vampirism to most of his fellow robbers save for one who's forced to team up with the local sheriff to take them down. The third flick, ''The Hangman's Daughter'', is a prequel set way in the past in the wild west. A bandit makes off with the titular character and flees into the Mexican desert where they come across the Titty Twister (a bordello in this version), with the girl's father not far behind. This movie shows us how Satanico from the first film came to be and a lot of fans admit it's a much better sequel than Blood Money was.
There was also a PC videogame that next to nobody remembers. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames This is probably for the better...]]
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!!The 1996 film provides examples of:
* [[ActingForTwo Acting for Three]] - [[CheechAndChong Cheech Marin]] plays three distinctly different characters; the border cop, the announcer at the bar, and the Mexican mafia dude who shows up at the end.
* AllAsiansAreAlike: Seth is dumbfounded to learn that Scott is Jacob Fuller's son, pointing out that Jacob doesn't look Japanese. Jacob retorts that Scott doesn't either, because he's ''Chinese''. Seth "apologizes" for this mistake with [[{{Jerkass}} "Well, excuse me all to hell."]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Whereas vampires in many other movies are often played up as the twisted, tormented former humans they actually are, here the bloodsuckers are depicted as either this trope or mindless animals who roar and snarl. (Satanico is the only one of these creatures who retains more than a modicum of her humanity, and then only in the intellectual sense - and ''certainly'' [[CompleteMonster not in the moral sense]].)
* {{Anyone Can Die}} - And boy howdy do they by the 2nd half of the flick.
* AuthorAppeal - Quentin Tarantino's famous foot fetish reaches new heights.
* AxCrazy - Richard Gecko, a bloodthirsty psychopath and rapist.
* BadassPreacher - Jacob Fuller becomes one of these.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy - AmbroseBierce appears in the third film, which missed its opportunity for a GeniusBonus by ''not'' explaining the author's RealLife disappearance this way.
* BigBad - Strange, semi-subverted example. Satanico clearly seems to be the leader of the vampires but [[IncrediblyLamePun she bites it]] half way through and the situation becomes one more similar to a zombie movie (only with vampires) with the vampires as a mob of faceless undead monsters.
* BlackAndGreyMorality - The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but, when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they are the guys you want to root for.
* BodyHorror: Some of the victims once they turn. Most notable Sex Machine [[spoiler: after he gets his head pulled off. This doesn't kill him rather it activates a whole new mutation in what can be described as a skinless oversized rat.]]
* BondOneLiner - When he's about to be turned into a vampire (almost), and being told, "Welcome to slavery!" Seth remarks, "No thanks; [[TakeThat I already have a wife]]."
* BookEnds - The song "Dark Night" plays as the main characters drive away from a thoroughly destroyed building.
** The same Aztec-style pyramid, partially embedded in a cliff, is revealed in the last shot of both the first and the third film.
* {{Camp}} - The flick thoroughly revels in its cheesiness.
* CaptainObvious - This exchange between Kate and Richie:
--> ''So, what's [[SouthOfTheBorder in Mexico]]?''
--> ''Mexicans.''
* ChainsawGood - A version of this with the pneumatic stake.
* ClusterFBomb - Most notably Chet Pussy's sales pitch, but nearly all of the characters swear profusely on at least one occasion.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies
* ContinuityNod - Sex Machine's crotch gun can be seen in another [[RobertRodriguez Rodriguez]] flick - {{Desperado}}. [[SalmaHayek Carolina]] pulls it out of [[AntonioBanderas El Mariachi's]] guitar case o' weapons, and El awkwardly replies that it's saved his life on a number of occasions.
** If you get a good look at the burger bags Seth brings back to the motel room, the restaurant logo says they came from [[PulpFiction Big Kahuna Burger]].
** Michael Parks appears in the beginning as Texas Ranger Earl Mcgraw, a recurring character of Rodriguez's and Tarantino's who also shows up in ''KillBill'' and both films in ''{{Grindhouse}}''. He dies here, but it's anyone's guess whether this indicates ''From Dusk Till Dawn'' takes place after the other films.
* CoolOldGuy - Harvey Keitel as Jacob Fuller.
* {{Determinator}} - Seth absolutely refuses to give up hope, even when it looks like [[spoiler: he and Kate]] are about to be vampirized for sure. [[spoiler: Fortunately, they're saved by the film's BigDamnHeroes.]]
* DesignatedGirlFight: Averted. Several female vampires and Kate doesn't kill any of them, only visibly killing males.
* {{Downer Ending}} - [[spoiler: Seth and Kate are the only survivors by the end of the ordeal. Kate offers to go with him but Seth declines admitting he is not evil enough to pull her into his lifestyle and they part ways. Kate by herself in her now dead family's RV.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything - Healing a huge bullet hole doesn't call for gauze : duct tape does the trick.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The proprietors of the Titty Twister have "hired" (i.e turned if they weren't already monsters to begin with) quite a few strippers and other employees who are visibly not Hispanic/mestizo. (And, of course, once they're all revealed to be vampires, they continue to act unbiased by ''eating'' humans of all different races!)
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Seth Gecko, who doesn't have any compunctions against killing hostages, chastises his AxCrazy brother Richard for raping everything in sight and using wanton violence to resolve problems.
-->''I may be a bastard, but I'm not a [[StealthPun fuckin']] bastard''
* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: When she's played by SalmaHayek, how could it be otherwise?
* EvilVersusEvil - A duo of robbers and murderers versus bloodsucking undead.
* FanService - The staff of the Titty Twister, especially Salma Hayek. Rapidly changes to FanDisservice when they turn into a bunch of monsters and start eating everyone.
* FeatherBoaConstrictor - Ladies and gentlemen, behold the world's luckiest snake.
* FootFocus - Tarantino film, nuff said.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Richard [[YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses (until his glasses are broken by an angry punch from Seth)]].
* FridgeLogic - Sex Machine's crotch gun. Now, ignoring the fact that the cylinders cannot feed the gun the way they are positioned, it looks to be a pretty large caliber. If you were to fire that thing, you would be committing a GroinAttack. On yourself.
* GameFace
* GlassesPull: Inverted, when Jacob turns from protective father to ass-kicking padre.
-->'''Seth:''' So what are you, Jacob? A faithless preacher? Or a mean motherfuckin' servant of God?
-->'''Jacob:''' [puts on glasses] I'm a mean... mhm mhm servant of God.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch - One of the premier ones, sadly [[ItWasHisSled spoiled thoroughly]]. In fact, the original name of the trope was just the name of this movie.
** There were actually theatre-goers who said, ''out loud'', at the point of the switch, "Wait, [[GenreBusting what the hell kind of movie is this]]?!"
* HeyItsThatGuy: Kelly Preston is the [[KentBrockmanNews Kent Brockman News Reporter]].
* HotAsHell - Not {{Satan}} herself but Satanico Pandemonium fits to a T.
* HypocriticalHumor: "I didn't say 'Do what I do.' I said 'Do what I say.' "
* ImMelting - Vampire bodies dissolve into a sickly green goo shortly after death.
* ImagineSpot: "Richie, will you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me? Pleeease?"
* ImprovisedWeapon - Quite literally by the truckload.
* InfernalRetaliation - The clerk at the beginning. It's quite awesome.
* LargeHam - [[WorldOfHam Pretty much everybody]] gets to ham it up in this.
* LampshadeHanging and MadeOfPlasticine: Vampires have super-strength, but take hits like monsters made of playdough, as noted by the cast.
* LoopholeAbuse - Upon being told that the Titty Twister is only open to truckers and bikers, Jacob notes that, technically, he ''is'' a truck ''driver'', as his RV requires a truck license to legally operate. The guys questioning him can't prove him wrong, so they let him and the rest of the gang stay in the bar.
* ManOnFire - The clerk at Benny's World of Liquor earns some cool points by continuing to fire on the Geckos after being lit aflame.
* MathematiciansAnswer -
-->'''Kate:''' Where are we going?
-->'''Richie:''' Mexico.
-->'''Kate:''' What's in Mexico?
-->'''Richie:''' Mexicans.
* {{Mayincatec}} - [[spoiler: The Titty Twister is located on top of a long buried, thousand years old sacrificial pyramid.]] Doesn't really explain how its inhabitants became vampires though.
** They merged with the Bat, ruler of underworld and darkness in Mayan culture.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: After Jacob gets bitten, he has Scott and Kate promise to kill him once he turns. During the final battle, it does happen and Scott is forced to do the deed. Though not before getting bitten himself after a moment of hesitation. Kate then has to kill him as hes being devoured by vampires.]]
* MsFanservice: SalmaHayek and other strippers.
* NewOldWest - It's basically another "fight-in-a-saloon" movie, but with Mexicans. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent And vampires.]]
* NightOfTheLivingMooks - A rather weird example in that the vampires begin with a clear leader in Satanico and are clearly individuals with personality themselves, but once they are killed the ''subsequent'' vampires are interchangeable faceless undead monsters. Curiously though some of the vampires can shift into different forms.
* NobleDemon - Seth Gecko. He even declines taking Kate with him in the end feeling a tad guilty for being the reason her family is dead.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Jacob and Sex Machine in the first movie. Though it takes two shot to bring down the former (as Scott only blew off half his face the first shot) and it doesn't kill the latter (See Body Horror).]] The third movie has an undead mook who has this happen but he just replaces the head with a cobra before that ends up getting shot off.
* OhCrap - [[spoiler: Sex Machine]], after realizing that he's been turned into a vampire - and that his former friends will kill him as soon as they find out.
* OneSceneWonder
** Cheech Marin in all three of his roles.
** SalmaHayek has all of ten minutes screentime half way through the movie and is one of the most memorable things in it.
* OneWingedAngel - Ugh. Let's just say you'll need some economy-size BrainBleach after seeing Satanico's true form.
* OnlyAFleshWound - Averted; all the duct tape does for Richard is keep his hand from bleeding after it gets a hole shot through it. He never uses it afterwards (and at one point yells and drops a set of keys when they hit it).
* OurVampiresAreDifferent - While they have all of the standard weaknesses, they were designed to appear more as just pure monsters than merely humans with fangs. It also subverts NoOntologicalInertia as killing a vampire that bites you doesn't stop you from turning into one.
* PantyShot: An "around-her-ankles" example rather than the standard upskirt peek, but the border patrol guy still gets an eyeful when he spies Kate sitting on the toilet (pretending to defecate so that the agent will leave and not notice the Gecko brothers hiding behind the shower curtain).
* PlayingAgainstType
** George Clooney was famous for playing a doctor in ''{{ER}}'' before being cast in this role.
** Tough Brooklyn-born Jew Keitel is a soft-spoken Southern preacher...[[spoiler: and a vampire]].
* {{Prequel}}: The third movie.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - Being an insane serial rapist is what makes Richard Gecko [[CompleteMonster irredeemable]] in the audience's eyes, unlike his NobleDemon brother who is [[EvenEvilHasStandards above that]].
* RockMeAsmodeus - The satanic musicians in the bar, with [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel guitars made of living flesh]].
* TheSavageSouth: [[SarcasmMode Because the Mexican border really is full of banditos and vampires.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran - Frost, a KnifeNut 'Nam vet.
* ShoutOut - When asked whether an improvised cross made from table legs or something would work, Tom Savini's character replies "PeterCushing does it [[HammerHorror all the time.]]"
** In the third movie, the titular hangman [[{{Castlevania}} wields a whip]].
** A [[NotSafeForWork nude]] vampire appears alongside [[http://postimage.org/image/1u71mthhg/ with three others]] to [[MexicanStandOff face down Seth and the surviving adult cast]] with a large, gaping and bloody [[PlotHole hole]] in her stomach with [[OffstageVillainy no explanation why.]]
*** [[DeletedScene Seth beared witness]] to the answer. Accompanied by [[WordOfGod commentary]] from RobertRodriguez. [[spoiler: During the chaos of the initial feeding frenzy sparked by his brother's murder he stumbles upon this vamp (sans hole) happily laying upon the lap of her [[FrozenFace newly]] [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse paralysed victim]] (after first [[TakeThatKiss playing with her food]]). She spots Seth (to her apparent [[SlasherSmile glee]]) and [[DropWhatYouAreDoing perks up]], climbing up off her victim and standing before Seth, apparently disregarding him for the new one. Or so he hoped. In full view of Seth she pulls her victim up into an embrace before pushing him headfirst down her naked body to her bulging stomach by way of a "dance" while said-victim quietly gibbers/begs Seth to help him. Her [[BodyHorror belly rips open]] revealing a carvernous "shark-mouth" where [[TheThing the stomach should be]]. Terror-struck Seth can only watch as the man's head is shoved by the vampire and is [[GoryDiscretionShot bitten off]] (with a sickening [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CRUNCH!]]) leaving the vampire with a bloody fanged maw for a stomach and a ragdoll corpse. When she advances on Seth, he finds his legs at last.]] NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJjIzU7k4Y#t=3m12s
* SlasherSmile - [[spoiler: Frost]] has an ''enormous'' one after he's turned into a vampire by [[spoiler: Sex Machine]].
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
* SouthOfTheBorder - Mexico, the land of gangsters, strippers, and vampires.
* SpicyLatina - A whole stripper bar of them! With SalmaHayek as their queen-goddess.
* [[SpiritualSequel Spiritual Prequel ]] - Arguably to GrindHouse.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler: "Richie, here is the peace in death that I could not give you in life."]]
* StealthParody - Of both horror and heist films.
* TattooedCrook - Seth.
* TookALevelInBadass - Kate can barely even choke down a shot of whiskey when she first arrives at the Titty Twister, but has become a viciously clever vampire-killer by the movie's end.
* TheVirus - How vampirism is treated with a hint of {{Hive Mind}}.
* TrunkShot - The script was written by QuentinTarantino, so it's a given that one of these was included in the movie.
* VirusVictimSymptoms - Played for laughs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: SalmaHayek is a real-life ophidiophobe, such that she almost didn't take the part of Satanico Pandemonium because of it. RobertRodriguez conned her into thinking that {{Madonna}} was ready to take the part instead, so she spent two months with therapists in order to overcome her fear of snakes.
* WrongGenreSavvy - The hostages, particularly Scott Fuller, have all the GenreSavvy needed to survive in a heist film or hostage taking film. Scott even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by telling his father "I've seen this on TV Dad!" Pity for them the bar the Gecko Brothers choose to stop is full of ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Fricking Vampire]] [[FanService Strippers!]]''
* YourVampiresSuck - All you need to do to keep these vampires at bay are two sticks put together to make a cross. Or ANYTHING resembling one. Hell, even the Red Cross of Ambulances does the trick.
** Course numbers are another thing entirely.
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