10 Movies That Are Totally Different By The End

10. From Dusk Till Dawn

How It Starts

Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn begins as a modest-yet-pulpy thriller in which two criminal brothers, Seth and Richie Gecko (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) take a family (Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, and Ernest Liu) hostage while fleeing to Mexico.

It's as grimy and foul-mouthed as you'd expect from any Tarantino-penned thriller, yet that first half is ultimately just setting the stage for one of the most legendary genre shifts in cinema history.

How It Ends

At the mid-way point, Rodriguez's film reveals itself to be a secret B-movie - that is, an action-horror film filled with bloodthirsty vampires and cartoonish supporting characters who look like they fell straight out of a comic book.

By film's end, when Seth and Kate (Lewis) emerge as the only survivors from a night of hilariously over-the-top brutality, it couldn't seem much more divorced from the opening sequence in which the Geckos hold up a liquor store, no vampires in sight.

For many movies such a stark shift would simply piss the audience off, yet in From Dusk till Dawn's case the second half is such an absurdly entertaining, no-holds-barred blast that few have ever bothered to complain.