From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
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- During the filming of From Dusk Till Dawn, George Clooney improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The original script for From Dusk Till Dawn was written over a decade before production finally began in 1996.
- Before George Clooney was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
From Dusk Till Dawn is a 1996 American horror-crime film directed by Robert Rodriguez from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, who also stars alongside George Clooney. Clooney plays Seth Gecko, a professional criminal who has just broken his psychotic brother Richie, played by Tarantino, out of prison and is fleeing to Mexico. They take a family β a preacher who has lost his faith played by Harvey Keitel and his two children β hostage and force them to drive their RV across the border to a strip club called the Titty Twister, where they plan to meet their contact.
The film's most famous feature was its radical mid-point genre shift β for its first half, From Dusk Till Dawn is a tense, Tarantino-scripted crime thriller; then the strip club's employees reveal themselves to be vampires, and the film transforms into a splatter-horror siege movie for its entire second half. Salma Hayek's entrance as the vampire SantΓ‘nico Pandemonium, performing a hypnotic snake dance, was one of the most iconic introductions in 1990s cinema. George Clooney's performance established his big-screen charisma before his breakout in Out of Sight.
From Dusk Till Dawn earned $26 million worldwide on a $19 million budget and became a cult classic.
