Stars: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin, Fred Williamson, Salma Hayek, Robert Patrick, Bo Hopkins, Duane Whitaker, Muse Watson, Brett Harrelson, Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks, Temuera Morrison, Rebecca Gayheart, Ara Celi, Lennie Loftin, Orlando Jones, Danny Trejo

Director: Scott Spiegel

Summary: Features 'From Dusk Till Dawn' in which a deranged convict and his brother kidnap a preacher and his two kids and head for the safety of a remote nightclub in Mexico. But... the nightclub is anything but safe... 'From Dusk Till Dawn 2 - Texas Blood Money' in which a gang of misfits head to Mexico ready for the perfect heist but one of the crooks enters the wrong bar and crosses the wrong vampire. As a result they all develop a thirst for blood as well as money... and 'From Dusk Till Dawn 3 - The Hangman's Daughter' which is the third instalment tells how the whole story began with Johnny Madrid and Esmeralda on the run and on the verge of the fight of their lives...

This raucous collection includes all three FROM DUSK TILL DAWN movies, plus the bonus documentary feature FULL TILT BOOGIE. In the original horror hit, the criminal Gecko brothers (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) are escaping to Mexico when they accidentally wind up in the Titty Twister, a seedy border bar that happens to be full of bloodthirsty vampires. TEXAS BLOOD MONEY, the sequel, follows another group of thieves and criminals (including Robert Patrick) into the same bar, while THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER serves as a prequel, set in the Old West decades earlier. FULL TILT BOOGIE is a behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of the original film, featuring special footage of director Robert Rodriguez and star-screenwriter Tarantino.

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This box set collects From Dusk Till Dawnand its two lesser-known sequels, plus a wealth of associated material. None are horror classics, but taken as a trilogy the series offers above-average thrills and an interesting invented mythology.

The original is a trashy but fun crime spree/vampire movie, directed by Robert Rodriguez, with Quentin Tarantino doing one job too many as producer, writer and co-star. The crime movie half is suspenseful and flavoursome and the left turn into horror begins wonderfully, but the script makes the mistake of getting rid of the flamboyant monster villains too quickly, replacing them with an orgy of rubbery Evil Dead II-style effects. It never gets boring, there's a terrific Tex-Mex-Gothic soundtrack and Rodriguez stages shoot-outs better than anyone not called John Woo. It was a big enough hit to warrant sequels made for the video market, shot back-to-back in South Africa (doubling for Texas and Mexico).

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Moneybegins as another cowboy noir, with ex-con Robert Patrick playing cat and mouse with Texas Ranger Bo Hopkins. It segues into horror as heist man Duane Whitaker runs into a bat on the highway and proceeds to turn his gang into vampires who engage during a total eclipse in a Wild Bunch-style bank raid-cum-shootout.

Switching genres and playing the prequel game, From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughteris more distinctive. A cod-spaghetti Western, it takes a plot nugget from history as the aged Ambrose Bierce (Michael Parks, the Sheriff killed before the credits in the first film) tangles with vampires in Mexico in 1914 en route to his mythic disappearance. Though it has the best storyline of the trio, it still degenerates into a compilation of horror gags in its carnage-strewn climax.

On the DVD:From Dusk Till Dawnis identical to the previous collector's edition release, while the sequels here appear on disc for the first time in great-looking 1.85:1 widescreen, which shows off the attempts made by directors Scott Spiegel and P.J. Pesce to add visual quality to reruns of the original's plot.

A second disc included in the first movie's keepcase features "Full Tilt Boogie", a light but informative feature-length documentary about making an effects-heavy film on the cheap; there's also a Rodriguez-Tarantino commentary; alternate and deleted scenes (more gore effects); excerpts from the film intercut with on-the-set-footage and commented on by Rodriguez and effects man Greg Nicotero; the trailer; Rodriguez music videos; a still gallery; cast and crew bios. If you count the sequels as extras in their own right, it's not that disappointing that they only rate one tiny extra between them, a deleted snippet from The Hangman's Daughteroriginally intended as an after-the-end-credits punchline.--Kim Newman

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary, Outtakes, Hollywood Goes To Hell Featurette, Theatrical Trailer, Tito And Tarantula After Dark, ZZ Top Shes Killing Me
Year:	1995
Release Date:	October 3, 2005
Runtime:	281 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 888551
Keywords:	Action, Comedy, General, Till, Four, Dawn, Trilogy, From, Adventure, Discs, Dusk
Genre:	Action/Adventure