From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

The '90s may not have been a prime decade for horror but they were a second golden age of independent filmmaking. One of the central figures was Quentin Tarantino, who got noticed with Reservoir Dogs and managed to keep the train running with Pulp Fiction and two other films that he wrote but did not direct: True Romance and Natural Born Killers . He was suddenly everywhere and he was not afraid to bring his friends along with him. One of those was Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez had an underground hit with his self-financed action film El Mariachi , which translated into actual box office success with its sequel, Desperado . Tarantino had written a script called From Dusk Till Dawn , but he had written it in hopes to have Robert Kurtzman, who had already begun making a name for himself as a makeup and effects artist, to direct. For whatever reasons Kurtzman was not able to so Rodriguez was tapped to do the job. What resulted is one of the best twists in ...