“From Dusk Till Dawn” is another collaboration between filmmakers Robert Rodriguez (“Spy Kids”, “Machete”) and Quentin Tarantino (“Pulp Fiction”, “Jackie Brown”) with the former in the director’s chair and the latter co-starring and writing. It is a messy film.

The film tells the story of robbers Seth Gecko (George Clooney “Ocean’s Eleven”, “The Descendants”) and his brother Richard (Tarantino) as they kidnap a family headed by former-minister Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel “Fingers”). They cross the border into Mexico and in one seedy bar/strip club vampires attack.

George Clooney is actually quite good as Seth Gecko but the problem is the film tries to have a comedic edge and it doesn’t pay-off, this also spoils Harvey Keitel’s stellar performance. The worst however is the Richard character as he’s sick rapist and brutal murderer, that even starts having sexual fantasies about a teenage girl; this is as bad as the likes of Hannibal Lecter and Alex DeLarge so you can’t laugh at him. The monsters are basic and because monsters are in it the film results in being a survival pic for the last half so we get a group of uninteresting characters trying to fight-off hordes of creatures, this is the same poor stuff we’ve seen in the likes of “Night of the Living Dead”.

“From Dusk Till Dawn” is well acted and the film does go all the way with its twisted humour as we see a man with a gun in place of his sexual organ, many of the stars turned into vampires and condoms used as weapons. I dislike how the film has no understanding of humour though as we can’t laugh while innocent kids witness people being gruesomely stabbed to death and then be laughing in the same or even a few seconds later. It’s “Pulp Fiction” meets “Night of the Living Dead” and then some so if that idea please you then you’ll eat this one up faster than one of these vampires drinks blood.