Remember the innocent 90s, when white directors thought they had the N-word pass for some reason? What do you think their “woke” movie would look like? Probably like this, where the N-word is replaced by horrific rape and Mexican jokes. This proto-edgelord movie was looked at as such a good time romp that it was considered the perfect vehicle to transition from the hit network show ER to the big screen. What a simpler time…

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

d. Robert Rodriguez

w. Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)

Starring:
Harvey Keitel
George Clooney
Juliette Lewis
Quentin Tarantino
Salma Hayek
Cheech Marin
Danny Trejo
Tom Savini
Fred Williamson

On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out.

Things discussed in the show:

Sex Machine and Santanico Pandemonium

Full Tilt Boogie (Sarah Kelly)

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin)

Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen)

Dolemite

Mortal Kombat 2021 (Simon McQuoid, Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)

Mulan 2020 (Niki Caro, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong)

G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott, Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft)

Bliss (Mike Cahill, Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper)

The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss)

Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz)

René Descartes

Rick and Morty (Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland)

Aliens soundtrack

Chingon - Robert Rodriguez's band

E.R. (Michael Crichton, Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies)

Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba)

Grindhouse films - Planet Terror and Death Proof

MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer)

Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker)

Tarantino's Star Trek

Mercury Cougar XR7

The Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack (The Blasters, ZZ Top, Jon Wayne, The Mavericks, Stevie Ray Vaughan)

Kelly Preston

Of Mice and Men

Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, John Hughes, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis)

George Romero

The Descent (Neil Marshall, Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid)

The Titty Twister bar

Desperado (Robert Rodriguez, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida)

Los Lobos

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford)

Call of Cthulhu RPG

Anne Rice vampires

Lapdog of Satan

loudQUIETloud A Film About the Pixies (Steven Cantor, Matthew Galkin, Frank Black, Kim Deal, David Lovering)

El Rey in Robert Rodriguez films

The Getaway by Jim Thompson

Rifts RPG - Mexico's Vampire Kingdom

Charmed (Constance M. Burge, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause, Rose McGowan)

Dirk Diggler of Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham)

Gone Girl (David Fincher, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry)

Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl)

Next week: Wild Things