History Film / FromDuskTillDawn3TheHangmansDaughter

* SinisterMinister: John turns out to be one.

* CastingGag: Ambrose Bierce is played by none other than Texas Ranger Earl McGraw, Creator/MichaelParks.

* DwindlingParty: As with the previous movies, the heroes are picked off one by one as they make their way through the building trying to escape. [[spoiler:At the end only Madrid and Bierce make it out alive, or undead in the case of Esmeralda/Santanica]].

* HeroicSacrifice: By Satanico's father, the eponymous hangman. 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 pueblo 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.

* DwindlingParty: As with the previous movies, the heroes are picked off one by one as they make their way through the building trying to escape. [[spoiler:At the end only Madrid and Bierce make it out alive]].

A {{Prequel}} to ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', released in 2000 starring Marco Leonardi, Creator/AraCeli, Michael Parks, Creator/OrlandoJones, Creator/TemueraMorrison, and Creator/DannyTrejo.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Creator/AmbroseBierce disappeared because [[spoiler: he became a vampire, and he's still alive in the present day.]]

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Rehashes the plot switch structure of the first film with a [[TheWestern western]] style, having a post carriage theft plot preceding the action and horror.

A {{Prequel}} to ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', released in 2000 starring Marco Leonardi, Ara Celi, Michael Parks, Creator/OrlandoJones, Creator/TemueraMorrison, and Creator/DannyTrejo.

* ImmuneToBullest: The Hangman shoots Quixtla when she first confronts him. It does knock her out for a bit, but she eventually recovers with just some slight discomfort to her abdomen that she manages to push in.

* DwindlingParty: As with the previous movies, the heroes are picked off one by one as they make their way through the building trying to escape. [[spoiler:At the end only Madrid and Pierce make it out alive]].

The film is 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 era), with a posse led by girl's father not far behind.

* TragicMonster: Its very hard not to feel bad about Santanico Pandemonium when you discover her backstory in this movie.
* TranshumanTreachery: All who get bitten succumb the vampirism and become instantly evil. Examples include Erza (a traveler stopping at the pueblo. He's fed on by a least four vampire women, turns, bites Mary and practically becomes an enforcer for Quixtla), Mary (A devout Christian and John's wife. Once she turns, she follows after the group and reveals John's dirty secret to the group) and one of Johnny's men who attacks the group when he tries to hide that he was bitten by a vampire earlier.

* AbusiveParents: The Hangman. He treats his own daughter like crap and considers her an aberration due to her half-vampire nature. Its revealed he actually [[OffingTheOffspring tried to kill her]] a few times, but she always survived.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: In retrospective to the first movie, its revealed that the ruthless and seductive vampire queen Santanico Pandemonium used to be a humble GirlNextDoor who would have probably lived a normal life if it wasn't for a fugitive outlaw who kidnapped her and inadvertently returned her to her mother...

A {{Prequel}} to ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', released in 2000.

* TragicMonster: Its very hard to few bad about Santanico Pandemonium when you discover her backstory in this movie.

* DoomedByCanon: Domenica Santanico will become the evil vampire Santanico Pandemonium.

* EvilMatriarch: Quixtla, the ampire high-priestess that rules over the local inn/whorehouse that would soon become the Titty Twister is revealed to be Esmeralda's mother.

* DwindlingParty: As with the previous movies, the heroes are picked off one by one as they make their way through the building trying to escape.

* TranshumanTreachery: All who get bitten succumb the vampirism and become instantly evil. Examples inculde Erza ( a traveler stopping at the pueblo. He's fed on by a least four vampire women, turns, bites Mary and practically becomes an enforcer for Quixtla), Mary (A devot Christan and John's wife. Once she turns, she follows after the group and reveals John's dirty secert to the group) and one of Johnny's men who attacks the group when he tries to hide that he was bitten by a vampire eariler.

* AgeLift: The real Creator/AmbroseBierce was 71 when he went out West, but Ambrose in the third film looks like he's a decade younger than that.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Creator/AmbroseBierce appears in the third film, which missed its opportunity for a GeniusBonus by ''not'' explaining the author's real life disappearance this way. [[spoiler:Though TheStinger shows he's alive in the present day and is now a vampire, so it at least tries.]]
* BookEnds: The same Aztec-style pyramid, partially embedded in a cliff that was revealed in the last shot of the first film appears again in the ending.

* DoomedByCanon: Domenica Santanico will become the evil vampìre Santanico Pandemonium.

* TheStinger: Happens in the end, where [[spoiler:Ambrose in the modern day is finishing telling another guy the events of the movie, the latter expressing disbelief at "Mexican hooker vampires". So Ambrose shows him proof-by promptly [[AndShowItToYou ripping out the man's heart]]. The final shot shows [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Ambrose's eyes turning golden, fangs in his mouth and him emitting a low growl before eating the heart]].]]
** [[spoiler:Course, this was foreshadowed during one of Ambrose's visions earlier in the film briefly. Though, it wasn't shown when he was bitten due to the rest of the original ending where the stinger came from being replaced with the ending it got.]]

* TheStinger: Happens in the end, where [[spoiler:Ambrose in the modern day is finishing telling another guy the events of the movie, the latter expressing disbelief at "Mexican hooker vampires". So Ambrose shows him proof-by promptly[[BeatStillMyHeart ripping out the man's heart]]. The final shot shows [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Ambrose's eyes turning golden, fangs in his mouth and him emitting a low growl before eating the heart]].]]