Women are still made to be objects - first of lust, then disgust.
#SALMA HAYEK DUSK TILL DAWN MONSTER SKIN#
When Hayek’s head turns reptilian and strippers’ skin becomes sickly grey, few audience members can still feel attraction toward these vampires. The true face of Satanmodicum Pandemonium What little seduction there is quickly becomes rampant cannibalism. As throats are ripped open, and decapitated heads fly about the room, eroticism and vampirism do not converge as they do so often in this genre. So unlike the iconic vampire brides of Dracula, the undead things of FROM DUSK TIL DAWN become not only non-sexual, but non-human. George Clooney was like, ‘How come she doesn’t look at us?’, ‘Because I’m the writer.’” It is telling that in a recent interview, Salma Hayek was quoted as saying: “ makes me dance only for him. But their gaze is not returned by the vampire queen. As she pours alcohol down her leg into his waiting mouth, other men watch. Moving like a serpent - with a serpent (despite the actress’ fear of snakes) - Hayek is every bit the object of desire, especially for foot fetishist Tarantino. Though bikini-clad, Hayek is no caricature of the femme fatale. Its vampires - best portrayed by Hayek as the Queen bloodsucker Santanico Pandemonium - are true monsters. But FROM DUSK TIL DAWN is decidedly different. Movies like Night Shade (1996), Bordello of Blood (1996) and Club Vampire (1998) come to mind (there are many others). It is the latter - the seedy south-of-the-border “Titty Twister” strip club - that sets the stage, literally, for the di rigueur overt display of partial nudity that is to be expected of late twentieth-century vampire films. It had humor, blood (albeit green to avoid an NC-17 rating), and a biker bar. From Dusk Tile Dawn (1996)ĭuring a decade that saw undead bloodsuckers that ran the gamut from far too serious ( 1994’s Interview with the Vampire), to incredibly funny (Mel Brooks’ amusing Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), FROM DUSK TIL DAWN (1996) was actually a fresh take on the vampire mythos, combining elements of the heist thriller with a healthy dose of grindhouse gore.
Distributed by Mirimax (a company co-founded, coincidentally, by Weinstein), directed by Robert Rodriguez, and written by Quentin Tarantino, it stars George Clooney (in his first film role), Tarantino, Harvey Keitel and a very young Juliette Lewis. Oh, and Salma Hayek as the most seductive of vampires - one who dances on top of a table in a skimpy bikini. In this current climate of post Harvey Weinstein real-life #metoo horrors, FROM DUSK TIL DAWN could easily be construed as terribly misogynistic.
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