Seriously, the people behind this movie went a long way to make this film seem as much like a seventies grindhouse thriller as it is it looks like it, feels like it, and even the dialogue appears genuine (written by Quentin Tarrantino). It’s no secret that Rodriguez and Tarrantino are in love with these types of movies hailing from the seventies. There are 30 episodes total from three seasons.Robert Rodriguez’s retro-styled From Dusk Till Dawn is a tribute to the ‘B’ grindhouse (or drive-in) films of the seventies, and it looks it to the point of nearly being indiscernible from the real thing.
It was picked as #1 on Entertainment Weekly's Must list and as one of the Hottest New Fiction Shows by The Hollywood Reporter. Another review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 78% rating with an average rating of 6.6 out of 10, based on nine reviews. The website, Metacritic, has given the season a "generally favorable" score of 62 out of 100, based on nine critics. And I delved a little deeper into Mesoamerican mythologies and Aztec and Mayan mythologies and where a vampire culture could have existed back then and found fascinating stuff."įrom Dusk till Dawn has received mostly favorable reviews. Creator Robert Rodriguez, who also directed the pilot and other episodes, stated that the original film From Dusk Till Dawn is "one of the favorite movies that I did in the past with Quentin and one that people still ask us about today." He added, "There was so much I wanted to explore in that movie that I didn't get to.