Celebrating 350 Episodes with ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
The Original Grindhouse.
After delivering a warning about white after Labor Day with John Waters’ Serial Mom (listen) and revisiting the original Troma trashterpiece, The Toxic Avenger (listen), Trace and I kicked off September with the 350th episode of Horror Queersand a trip down to Mexico.
In Robert Rodriguez‘s From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), the Gecko Brothers – rational but angry Seth (George Clooney) and sexual predator Richie (screenwriter Quentin Tarantino) – take a family hostage in order to sneak across the border. This puts faithless preacher Jacob (Harvey Keitel), teen daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) and son Scott (Ernest Liu) in extreme danger from the unhinged criminals.
Once they’ve crossed under the nose of the Border Guard (Cheech Marin in one of three roles), everyone holds up in the iconic Titty Twister to wait until daylight. Little do they know that the biker bar hosts more than one of the most extravagant dancers in Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek); it’s also home to a massive horde of hungry vampires who will stop at nothing to devour the humans.
Thankfully the survivors include crotch pistol/mini-lasso wielding biker Sex Machine (Tom Savini) and “maybe never named” Frost (Fred Williamson).
Can the humans band together to survive the night? Or will they be forced to lick Santanico’s perfect feet for the rest of eternity?
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Episode 350: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
For Episode 350 (!) we decided we wanted a party, so we’re headed south of the border to hang out at the Titty Twister with the Gecko brothers in Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
From an epic game that lasts the whole episode to a little bit of drunken slurring by the end, this is a good time through and through.
Plus: Quentin Tarantino’s screenplay and how this collaboration anticipates 2007’s Grindhouse (see previous episodes), worshipping Santanico Pandemonium, Trace’s pitch to watch the TV series, and the many, MANY titles that we may cover in the future. Grab your crotch gun and jump in!
Cross out From Dusk Till Dawn!
Coming Up Next: Episode 351 takes us to the other side of the world as we try to prevent WWIII with 1988’s Japanese anime classic, Akira.
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