6/10 holy water condoms.

Rating: 6/10 (18 March 2020)

"Peachy, Kate. The world's my oyster, except for the fact that I just rammed a wooden stake in my brother's heart because he turned into a vampire, even though I don't believe in vampires. Aside from that unfortunate business, everything's hunky-dory."
Holding audiences hostage for a wild 108 minutes, this gory genre-bending spectacle from dream pairing Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino achieved immediate cult status upon release. Each having a chip on their shoulder in the wake of scathing reviews to commercial bomb Four Rooms, the duo team with horror SFX icon Robert Kurtzman to pull off the unthinkable: drive a gritty, crime drama straight off the cliff into this bloody, creature squib show, all in unapologetically ugly fashion. Boasting THE breakthrough cinematic role for George Clooney, one can't discount the murderers' row of film legends like the top billed Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and Fred Williamson, not to mention Rodriguez' troupe favourites Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin and the incomparable Danny Trejo. The less said about some very problematic scenes, pacing issues and a bizarre 'performance' from Tarantino, the better.