<P> From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 American black comedy action horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino . It stars George Clooney, Tarantino, Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis . After enjoying modest success at the box office, it has since become a cult film . The film was conceived by Robert Kurtzman who hired Tarantino to write the script as his first paid writing assignment . </P> <P> Fugitive bank robbers Seth and Richie Gecko hold up and destroy a liquor store, killing the clerk and a Texas ranger . At the motel room where they are hiding out, Seth returns to find Richie has raped and murdered a bank clerk they had taken hostage . </P> <P> Jacob Fuller, a pastor who is experiencing a crisis of faith, is on vacation with his teenage children Scott and Kate in their RV . They stop at the motel and are kidnapped by the Geckos, who force the Fullers to smuggle them over the Mexican border . In Mexico, they arrive at the Titty Twister, a strip club in a desert, where the Geckos will be met by their contact, Carlos, at dawn . Carlos will escort them to sanctuary at "El Rey," a place of safety for fugitives from justice whose admission fee is a non-negotiable 30 percent of everything you have . </P> <P> The bar employees transform into vampires and most of the patrons are killed . Richie is bitten by a stripper, becomes a vampire himself, and dies after Seth drives a wooden stake through his heart . Only Seth, Jacob, Kate, Scott, a biker named Sex Machine, and Frost, a Vietnam veteran, survive . The others come back to life as vampires, including Richie, forcing Seth to kill him . Sex Machine is bitten, becomes a vampire, and bites Frost and Jacob . Frost throws Sex Machine through the door, allowing an army of vampires to enter as bats . </P>

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