The movie opens with the fugitive Gecko brothers Seth (George Clooney) and Richie (Quentin Tarantino) fleeing the F.B.I. and Texas police after Richie has broken Seth out of prison in a bloody shootout. Seth Gecko is a cold, tough anti-hero, while his younger brother Richie is a delusional, homicidal serial rapist. The film begins in a liquor
store where Seth and Richie hold two girls
hostage while attempting to get Pete Bottoms, the clerk, to get rid of Texas Ranger Earl McGraw, who has entered the store. Just as McGraw is about to leave, he is shot in the head by Richie, thinking that Pete has mouthed "help us." This leads to an argument between Seth and Richie, and Richie shoots Pete in the shoulder. Enraged, Pete manages to pull out a gun he had hidden in a safe. Though he manages to shoot Richie in the hand, Pete fails to reload quickly enough, and is set on fire by the two brothers (during which the hostages escape). As the two siblings argue and depart, the liquor store quickly catches fire and explodes behind the two, who don''t bother to notice. It is revealed during the brothers'' argument that Richie was merely supposed to buy a road map from the store. The Geckos arrive at a motel, along with Gloria Hill, a hostage they had in the trunk of their car. Seth warns Hill not to talk or try to escape. Seth then leaves to get food and to scope Mexico''s border, while Richie watches a news report about him and his brother. The film then cuts to the Fuller family: Jacob (Harvey Keitel), the father and a former pastor who has experienced a crisis of faith, and his two children Scott (Ernest Liu) and Kate (Juliette Lewis). The Fullers are on a vacation in their RV. Meanwhile, Seth returns with food for the three of them and discovers that Richie has raped and killed Hill. Seeing Hill''s nude and battered body lying on the hotel bed, Seth becomes enraged, only to calm down and promise his brother that they will get to Mexico tomorrow. The Fullers arrive at the motel, only to be kidnapped by the Geckos, who force the Fullers to smuggle the brothers past the Mexican Border. Richie''s eyes begin to roam on Kate which makes Seth and Jacob uncomfortable. But both men make an uneasy truce if it means Jacob and his family will come out of the ordeal unharmed and the Geckos can make it past the border. They manage to fool the
border agent (Cheech Marin, in a triple role) and arrive at the "Titty Twister", a bar in the middle of a desolate wasteland, where the Geckos have agreed to be picked up by Carlos (Cheech Marin again), their contact, at dawn. At the "Titty Twister", the Geckos run into a few conflicts. First they encounter Chet Pussy, an obnoxious bouncer (Cheech Marin again) whom Seth and Richie pummel to gain entrance. Then Razor Charlie (Danny Trejo), the owner and main bartender, refuses to serve them, stating that he only serves bikers and truck drivers. Though Jacob manages to prove that he is a truck driver, stating that a truck license is required to drive an RV, Seth nevertheless gets angry when Big Emillio, a bouncer, puts his
hand on him. Exotic dancer Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek), the main attraction at the "Titty Twister", appears. After her show is over, Chet the bouncer, having recovered from his beating, enters the bar with Razor Charlie and Big Emilio at his side. Once they attack the Geckos and stabbing Richie in his wounded hand, he and Seth shoot all three to death. Upon seeing Richie''s blood soaked hand, Santanico morphs into a horrible creature, jumps on Richie''s back and sinks her fangs into his neck, killing him. It soon becomes evident that everyone that works at the "Titty Twister" are vampires. In the ensuing chaos, nearly every biker and trucker in the bar is killed in a bloodbath. One can watch this movie, its worth to watch.
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