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Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2002)

I tell some of this movie so if you ain't seen this movie than don't read this review. I have always enjoyed watching scary vampire movies for entertainment. You know, movies like the 1931 Classic Dracula where Doctor Van Helseing hunts Dracula to end his reign of terror? Or, what about John Carpenter's "Vampires", where the slayers find the nest, awake the bloodsuckers and the vampires are steaked and baked! I knew the movie "From Dusk Till Dawn" was a vampire flick so I watched it. But, after watching it, I realized there was something different in this flick then just a vampire movie. Let me explain what I mean. I'm leaving the actors names out because you can see them on this sight or the other viewers reviews. "From Dusk Till Dawn" begins with a genuine All-American hero, a Texas Ranger by the name of Earl McGraw who is tough and ready to go after two outlaws, the Gecko's, who escaped from prison. Ranger McGraw enters an isolated Texas liquor store where he speaks to the clerk about the situation of the escaped felons. He buys a beer and goes to the restroom totally unaware that in the back of the same liquor store the outlaws are holding two hostages at gunpoint. The Ranger then returns from the restroom with his back to the outlaws. He begins his conversation with the clerk where within an instant he is shot in the back of the head in a cold, cowardly act of murder. Falling to the ground, he is repeatedly shot. Afterwards, the outlaws murder the clerk and the world of liquor goes up in flames. From there the outlaws rape and mutilate an innocent woman. All of this happens in the first few minutes of the movie. The outlaw Gecko brothers then take a family hostage in their RV and cross into Mexico. There they are to meet an associate Mexican druglord at a bar, the Titty Twister, a bar that is owned by bloodsucking vampire goons. From there on, there are more unsavory charactors getting crazy and that's before the vampires even attack. But, when they do attack, boy do they ever! It is some of the most satanic, evil, bloodsucking vampires that I have ever seen in a movie. The makeup man and one of the writer's of "From Dusk Till Dawn" is Robert Kurtzman. This dude must be one of Hollywoods best horror, gory makeup artists. He has been a makeup artist for John Carpenter's "Vampires" and 2001 movie "Thirteen Ghosts" and thats just a couple of the many scary ones. The trouble with "From Dusk Till Dawn" is the entire movie is that I wanted to see the Gecko brothers get killed as bad as any bloodsuckin vamp-goons and thats pretty bad. What I discovered is deeper than just a vampire flick. "From Dust Till Dawn" is typical Hollywood verses the backbone of America with the unnecessary vicious murder of a Texas Ranger and two other murders. Robert Rodriguez, Robert Kurtzman and Quentin Tarantino show their disrespect for law and order, decency, morality and their outright hatred for our American heroes! Out of a scale of 1-10, I give this movie "From Dusk Till Dawn" a big, fat zero. Thats 0 out of 10!