A slasher flick in the style of grindhouse

Rating: 8/10 (29 October 2011)

My first piece of advise is do not watch this movie off television but either see it at a cinema (if it is being shown there) or hire it on video. (I don't know if cable cuts this movie to ribbons, but the free to air TV stations do). Basically, much of the movie is cut, and even though it is only the 'f' word, it is still annoying, and in fact it destroys one of the jokes, the one where Cheech Marin is going on about pussy.
Anyway, this is a Tarantino movie (and in fact he acts in it, playing is real psycho) and it is divided into two parts. The first is a road movie where two crims, Seth and Richard, are attempting to escape the cops and kidnap a minister and his family. The second part is a blood fest in a pub called the Titty Twister, where they fight hordes of vampires, and most of them are killed.
Basically, this movie is a cross between a b-grade horror and a road movie done Tarrantino style, which means it comes out very good. As we can expect in a Tarrantino movie, we have well developed characters and an excess of violence, designed not to desensitise but rather to shock. One scene is where we see, in flashes, the results of Richard's psychosis.
Now Richard is an interesting character as he is truly psychotic, and Tarantino plays him really well. He seems to be a nice, gentle man, until we see him rip apart the hostage (which, fortunately, we are spared from watching), which Seth is outwardly a brutal man, but is an intelligent, clear thinking, individual on the inside. I guess this movie deals with duality, in the way that on the outside we are one thing while on the inside we are completely different. We have seen two, and Jacob Fuller is another, a minister of God on the outside while an atheist on the inside, but then it could be the other way around as he keeps on speaking his disbelief but when it comes down to it, he does truly believe. Kate Fuller is similar, on the outside seeming to be a sweet and innocent girl, not ready to face the outside, but is one of the two who survive. Then we have the vampires, who on the outside pose as beautiful women, but turn into horrid monstrosities that seek to kill all.
I also love the clever wit in the movie. Unfortunately it is difficult to recite the gags because they are all partly visual (especially the best ones). I guess one needs a weird sense of humor and an iron stomach to handle this movie, but as one person once said, From Dusk til Dawn is the best vampire movie he had ever seen.