Initially, I was caught up in the Twilight book hype.
Then the movies started coming out, and I lost interest…but I still see the movies because I’m still extremely interested in Taylor Lautner becoming my Cabana boy.
But now I’m returning to my roots. To a movie about vampires who…
- Can’t resist the taste of blood.
- Can’t survive sunlight.
- Will eat you.
And most importantly, vampires who do not flippin’ sparkle. Sparkle? Seriously?
Vampires look like this:
I watched From Dusk Till Dawn. Here are some of my thoughts:
- Young George Clooney. Le sigh.
- They stopped at a gas station for a map? Whoa…this movie is old.
- Quentin Tarantino movies always have amazing soundtracks. That song in the post title is stuck in my head.
- Salma Hayek is a vampire stripper.
- I thought Cheech was typecast, but he can also portray a vampire/Border guard/pimp/criminal.
- Don’t judge someone whose name is “Sex Machine.” He’s on your side…until he becomes a vampire.
- In 1996, people said, “hunky dory.” Let’s bring that back.
But the most important thing that I learned is that if you’re defenseless against vampires, a pencil to the heart works just as well as a wooden stake.
Do you think it has to be a #2 pencil?



February 23rd, 2012 at 8:48 am
Ha! You know, I never saw this movie, although I love Tarantino. I can imagine that it was quite entertaining. And yes, he does have the best soundtracks. Although, they didn’t say “hunky dory” in ’96. Tarantino tries to bring all that shit back in his flix. But I like it, nonetheless. Let’s do use that some more. That would be quite hunky dory! (See what I did there?).
February 27th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Nice!
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:49 am
Something is wrong with this movie – if vampires are men, then why did they stop for a map at a gas station? Men don’t need directions, right? LOL
February 27th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
You should add this to IMDB as an inconsistency.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:53 am
I wish I could see that movie cold, because what an awesome plot twist. You think it’s about a bank robbery gone wrong, and then, wham!, vampires! How awesome is that. The should do that more often in movies, like, you think you’re watching a dramedy about George Clooney living in Hawaii, and his wife’s been in a terrible accident, and it turns out she’s been having an affair and then, 20 minutes in, it’s the Cloverfield monster!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:27 am
I still think Twilight (books and movies and future Cabana boys) are honky dory, but this movie also sounds h to the d.
February 27th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
H to the D! Love it!
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:02 am
i get this confused with Bordello of Blood, but only because I believe Angie Everhart should be in everything…
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:13 am
Taylor Lautner as a cabana boy… hunky dory.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:15 am
If I’m ever scanning channels and see that this movie is on, I HAVE to watch it. It’s so awesomely over the top. But I agree – this is how vampires are supposed to be!
Tom Savini, who played Sex Machine, is actually a highly respected make-up/special effects guy. He did the effects for the first Friday the 13th as well as for Dawn and Day of the Dead (he also directed the 1990 Night of the Living Dead remake). He was also a war photographer in Vietnam. Kind of a facinating guy.
(and cue the “More you Know” rainbow . . . )
February 26th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
This is one I often have to stop on when channel surfing, too. That was Clooney in his head-tilting heyday.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:20 am
New life rule: I will carry a pencil with me at all times.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:06 am
A pencil? Wow, better sharpen one and keep in my pocket
I do heart Twilight though!
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 am
One of my favorite soundtracks!
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Thanks for the heads-up on the pencil thing. Just to be safe, I’ll bring along my artists collection – everything from 0.0 to #6, so I’ve got a veritable Vampire Slayers toolbox in there. I remember this movie being promo’d at the time but never did catch it. I wonder, is on netflix?
February 27th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Yep! That’s where I watched it.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:42 pm
That is another scary movie that I just HAD to watch. It was good and every now and then I want to see it again…but I’m too scared.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I’ve never judged any of the people named Sex Machine who I have had the pleasure to meet over the years.
I judge the hell out of their parents.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Most definitely, lets bring honky dory back! And who would’ve thought a pencil would serve as a lethal weapon! Methinks any old pencil will do–number 2 or colored, if it’s made of wood, then I say we’re set! And I think we should also bring back Sex Machine, in any way, shape, or form!
February 23rd, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I loved the Twilight books but the movies not so much. I have to watch them because I can’t stand not watching them? I don’t know if that makes sense. Anywho, I love scary vampire movies. We need more Anne Rice before she got all weird (if that is possible).
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Best title of a blog post I’ve read in a while.
Even old George Clooney = Le Sigh
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:09 pm
I saw this movie years ago on TV and really liked it, but I kept being distracted by the fact that they’d very obviously dubbed over all the bad language.
My favorite vampire thing is a short-lived British series called Ultraviolet (not to be confused with the movie called Ultraviolet or the other movie called Ultraviolet).
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Coincidentally, I learned the same thing about pencils on Tuesday while watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Willow wicca-stabbed a vamp with a floating pencil just as he was about to take a neck nibble.
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:12 pm
It MUST be a #2 or you might not get credit for the slaying. Vampire strippers are perfectly ok with me because it can ALWAYS be worse.
Maps? Those were the thing you had to unfold and somehow read, right?
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:32 pm
This post is hunky dory.
February 23rd, 2012 at 7:01 pm
I was in love with this movie when I was in High School.
February 23rd, 2012 at 7:02 pm
I’m thinking I’d grab at least a #4 pencil. Don’t want to take a chance on it breaking just as I go in for the kill. In fact, maybe I’ll pick up a few of those beginner pencils that are as big around as your index finger. That would be hunky dory, dontcha’ think? PS – in the same way you despise mint in your ice cream, I despised this movie. Boy, was it bad. Or is campy the word I’m looking for?
February 24th, 2012 at 4:09 am
Oh, Twilight. I could write forever on the evil you have caused (and why does ANYONE like it? Seriously?) Nevertheless, I will pretend Twilight wasn’t mentioned and continue on with my question…Can anyone recommend good literary books in which a vampire falls in love with a woman and doesn’t just want to drink her blood? I feel like I’m missing out by not reading any vampire books. I should like Twilight ruin vampires for me like its ruined literature for others…
February 24th, 2012 at 4:10 am
*sorry, I meant I SHOULDN’T. It appears that even thinking about Twilight is messing with my mind.
February 24th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
I never saw this film, but I certainly got a kick from your review. What a combo–Clooney, Selma and Quentin? And unlikely trio, if you ask me.
February 27th, 2012 at 5:42 am
I love that film!! And yes, it is old.