From Dusk Till Dawn - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of From Dusk Till Dawn or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to From Dusk Till Dawn

[claude]

Erik Estrada was lined up to play Carlos the gangster that Cheech Marin plays at the end.

[bernice]

The liquor store clerk Pete Bottoms firearm is a, 4" Smith & Wesson Model 66 in . 357 Magnum.

[scarlett]

Originally, the Titty Twister massacre and fight scenes were longer and lot gorier, with more deaths of vampires and humans before they were cut for rating and pacing. Some workprint footage shows all of the uncut scenes.

[kyle]

According to the DVD featurettes, when Sex Machine is throwing around the other characters, Tom Savini actually punched many of the actors, including George Clooney.

[lynn]

Salma Hayek has a real fear of snakes and had always refused to be near them. Naturally when she read the script, she knew her phobia would prevent her from taking the part. Robert Rodriguez conned her into thinking that Madonna was ready to nab the part instead so Hayek spent two months with therapists to overcome her fear.

[charlie]

If you look closely, when Cheech Marin is playing the Customs Agent, his name badge says, "Oscar Marin", name of Cheech's real-life father, an LAPD officer.

[melinda]

Before George Clooney was cast, numerous actors were considered for the role of Seth Gecko, including Antonio Banderas, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, James Woods, and Robert De Niro. All passed because of scheduling conflicts. The only one to outright decline the role was Travolta, who said he has not interested in a doing a vampire movie and instead chose to do Pulp Fiction.

[steve]

When shown on commercial television, the name of the bar is digitally changed to "Kitty Twister", with the neon breasts blocked out.

[kristina]

At the beginning of the film, Pete Bottoms (John Hawkes) of Benny's World of Liquor mentioned to Seth Gecko (George Clooney) that he should "get a fucking Academy Award" for acting natural. Fifteen years later, Hawkes was nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in Winter's Bone (2010).

[frederick]

The name of the movie is taken from the signs found on drive-ins. These signs indicate the length of the shows, which ran "from dusk till dawn". The movie is full of references to midnight movies and films which were often intended for teenagers to watch late at night from their cars.

[maureen]

In the screenplay, Frost was supposed to face off Razor Charlie with the pool cue, and Sex Machine was supposed to hurl vampires onto the legs of a table to kill them. In the finished film, their actions are reversed.

[violet]

Danny Trejo and Tom Savini would late appear in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013).

[ray]

When the Geckos and Fullers are drinking at the Titty Twister, you can see a neon Chango beer sign behind Seth. Chango was the beer served at the Mexican dive bar in Desperado (1995), directed by Robert Rodriguez. Quentin Tarantino also had a small role in that film, and his character was served the same beer. Furthermore, the bartender that served Tarantino's character Chango beer, was played by Cheech Marin, who plays multiple roles in this film.

[kyle]

Originally, Quentin Tarantino pitched this to John Travolta the same time as he was preparing to film Pulp Fiction (1994). Travolta was not interested in working on a vampire movie, and wanted to work on Pulp Fiction instead.

[sophie]

In 2001, prolific French video game developer Cryo (also known as Cryo Interactive Entertainment) released on PC From Dusk Till Dawn (2001), their action/horror third person shooter tie-in video game that was very loosely based on this movie. The game immediately fell into obscurity. The plot was set after the events on the movie, and followed Seth Gecko, who's arrested and sent to a tanker-turned-high-security-prison that's anchored near the coast. When vampires and their familiar leader attack the prison, Seth gets a chance to try to escape, but also be a hero and save several survivors, he runs into and solve a puzzle or two, all while gunning down bloodsuckers on his way to freedom.

[janice]

Running Gag: Seth's catchphrase he uses before going into action follows a particular formula of "Ok, Xrs let's get Xing!". E.g. "Ok, ramblers, let's get rambling!", "Ok, hard drinkers, let's drink hard!" and "Ok, vampire killers, let's kill vampires!"

[richard]

Cheech Marin's characters both use the phrase, "f*ck it", first as the vampire doorman, then near the end as Carlos he says "Chingalo" when he offers Seth a cold beer.

[jim]

The Titty Twister is based on Kurtz' compound from Apocalypse Now (1979).

[camila]

There was a special make-up effect in which one of the stripper-vampires has her stomach open into a large mouth. She shoves a bar attendant's head into the large mouth and bites it off. The effect was so graphic that Quentin Tarantino didn't even want to see it. The scene can be accessed in the deleted scenes section on the Special Edition DVD.