10 Best Vampire Films Of All Time

This film is pretty weird. And you’d expect nothing less from a movie written by (and starring) Quentin Tarantino, and directed by Robert Rodriguez.

For the first half of the film, you’re watching a stylised crime story that sees brothers Seth and Richie (George Clooney and Tarantino) take a family hostage in their RV so they can use them to cross the Mexican border.

But when the group crosses over and arrives at a mysterious strip club in the desert, things start to get strange. As night falls, it becomes apparent the bar is entirely inhabited by vampires awaiting their prey. The drunken bar flies and bikini-clad dancers suddenly transform into the undead, and the film swivels as the group band together to fight for their lives.

The first half of the film is great anyway, but the vampire shift changes the whole experience. Action is combined with the supernatural as the group fights with a host of weapons that look like they’re straight out of Van Helsing’s war bunker. This includes bullets with crosses carved into them, a stake mounted on a pneumatic drill, and a cross bow doused in holy water.

There’s gory deaths, swarms of bats, and shoot outs that leave the viewer feeling as though they’ve stepped into some kind Western on acid.

And it turns out the strip club is the tip of an ancient Aztec temple. What more could you want?