It helps that the cast is game to play around within their roles and the expanded universe they have to work with. It's really odd when you first see these vampires in action in the series, but then it just gets worked into the mythos and it eventually just works. What I will note is that the original film had nods to that culture as well (remember, the end scene shows the Titty Twister was built on an ancient Aztec pyramid). I'm not going to try and bill myself as a scholar of Mesoamerican mythology so I can't speak to how well the snake-people play with that context. Still, making the vampires into weird undead snake-human hybrids is certain a strange, bold decision that's about as far from normal vampires as you could get while still saying "hey, they have fangs and drink blood so they're vampires." Let's be honest, the vampires in the original From Dusk Till Dawn weren't a normal pack of vamps - they were gross and demonic and just about as un-sexy as you could get. The first difference, and the biggest thing that may throw traditional vampire loves off, is that these are Mesoamerican-themed vampires. Anyone expecting anything similar to the original movie may end up disappointed by just how far out this movie travels, but it actually works to the service of the series that the creators were willing to follow new creative thoughts instead of simply saying "hey, let's remake From Dusk Till Dawn exactly as it was just 10 hours longer." She, along with just about everyone else they're about to meet up with when they arrive in Mexico at the Titty Twister, is a Mesoamerican vampire (a detail we'll cover soon), and the boys are in for one hell of a scary ride as their story unfolds.īilled as an expanded remake of the original movie (ignoring just about everything that's detailed in the later two direct-to-video sequel/prequels), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series takes that "expanded" note and seriously runs with it. What Seth doesn't know is that Richie has been in contact, mentally, the gorgeous Santanico Pandemonium. This leads Seth to kidnap a road-tripping family (father Jacob Fuller, daughter Kate and son Scott) and take them down to Mexico to wait for the law to back off. Richie, being just a tad unhinged (for reasons we'll get to in a second), ends up killing the one hostage the boys have taken (who was pretty much the only insurance they had if the long arm of the law caught up to them). They're criminals, bank robbers of the highest order, who've recently had a bad run of luck and are trying to hide out from the law after laying down a little too much carnage during a robbery gone bad. Much as in the film of the same name, we open with two brothers, Seth and Richie Gecko, who are on the run from the law.
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