From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) on Netflix
Bank robber Seth Gecko and his brother Richie take a pastor and his children hostage and force them into Mexico. They plan to wait in a desert bar for their contact Carlos.
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Plot summary
A heist in Abilene ends with casualties, and the robber Seth Gecko and his brother Richie flee toward Mexico, Richie nursing a gunshot hand. At a roadside liquor store, a clerk and a Texas Ranger are killed and the building is destroyed. Jacob Fuller, a widowed pastor whose faith failed after his wife's death, stops at a motel with his son Scott and daughter Kate in a motor home. Seth abducts the family and makes them drive him and Richie across the border, promising to free them the next morning. A border guard waves them through. In the desert the group enters the Titty Twister, an all-night club where Seth's contact Carlos will meet him at dawn.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
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- Special effects man Robert Kurtzman wrote the first treatment in 1988 simply to find work for his makeup studio KNB EFX Group. In 1990 KNB paid Quentin Tarantino $1,500 for the script, his first paid writing job, in return for a promise to hire KNB on Reservoir Dogs.
- Ireland banned the film on 1 May 1996. Sheamus Smith, head of the Irish Film Censor Board, called its violence "irresponsible and totally gratuitous" and especially ill-timed after the Dunblane and Port Arthur massacres; the ban stood until 2004.
- Robert Rodriguez shot the film with a non-union crew, unusual for a production budgeted above $15 million. The crew and its non-union status were filmed for the documentary Full Tilt Boogie, which came out two years later.
