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A trilogy of films, started in 1996. The first film in the series was directed by [[Robert Rodriguez]], written by [[Quentin Tarantino]] and starring [[George Clooney]], [[Quentin Tarantino]], [[Harvey Keitel]], and [[Juliette Lewis]].
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There was also a PC videogame that next to nobody remembers. [[The Problem with Licensed Games|This is probably for the better...]]
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* [[Acting for Two|Acting for Three]] - [[Cheech and Chong|Cheech Marin]] plays three distinctly different characters; the border cop, the announcer at the bar, and the Mexican mafia dude who shows up at the end.
* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: Seth is dumbfounded to learn that Scott is Jacob Fuller's son, pointing out that Jacob doesn't look Japanese. Jacob retorts that Scott doesn't either, because he's ''Chinese''. Seth "apologizes" for this mistake with [[Jerkass|"Well, excuse me all to hell."]]
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* [[Anyone Can Die]] - And boy howdy do they by the 2nd half of the flick.
* [[Author Appeal]] - Quentin Tarantino's famous foot fetish reaches new heights.
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* [[Badass Preacher]] - Jacob Fuller becomes one of these.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]] - [[Ambrose Bierce]] appears in the third film, which missed its opportunity for a [[Genius Bonus]] by ''not'' explaining the author's [[Real Life]] disappearance this way.
* [[Big Bad]] - Strange, semi-subverted example. Satanico clearly seems to be the leader of the vampires but [[Incredibly Lame Pun|she bites it]] half way through and the situation becomes one more similar to a zombie movie (only with vampires) with the vampires as a mob of faceless undead monsters.
* [[Black and Grey Morality]] - The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but, when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they are the guys you want to root for.
* [[Body Horror]]: Some of the victims once they turn. Most notable Sex Machine {{spoiler|after he gets his head pulled off. This doesn't kill him rather it activates a whole new mutation in what can be described as a skinless oversized rat.}}
* [[Bond One-Liner]] - When he's about to be turned into a vampire (almost), and being told, "Welcome to slavery!" Seth remarks, "No thanks; [[Take That|I already have a wife]]."
* [[Book Ends]] - The song "Dark Night" plays as the main characters drive away from a thoroughly destroyed building.
** The same Aztec-style pyramid, partially embedded in a cliff, is revealed in the last shot of both the first and the third film.
* [[Camp]] - The flick thoroughly revels in its cheesiness.
* [[Captain Obvious]] - This exchange between Kate and Richie:
{{quote|''So, what's [[South of the Border|in Mexico]]?''
''Mexicans.'' }}
* [[Chainsaw Good]] - A version of this with the pneumatic stake.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] - Most notably Chet Pussy's sales pitch, but nearly all of the characters swear profusely on at least one occasion.
* [[Colliding Criminal Conspiracies]]
* [[Continuity Nod]] - Sex Machine's crotch gun can be seen in another [[Robert Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] flick - [[Desperado]]. [[Salma Hayek|Carolina]] pulls it out of [[Antonio Banderas|El Mariachi's]] guitar case o' weapons, and El awkwardly replies that it's saved his life on a number of occasions.
** If you get a good look at the burger bags Seth brings back to the motel room, the restaurant logo says they came from [[Pulp Fiction|Big Kahuna Burger]].
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* [[Evil Versus Evil]] - A duo of robbers and murderers versus bloodsucking undead.
* [[Fan Service]] - The staff of the Titty Twister, especially Salma Hayek. Rapidly changes to [[Fan Disservice]] when they turn into a bunch of monsters and start eating everyone.
** Also, a 37 years old George Clooney in his most attractive forms.
* [[Feather Boa Constrictor]] - Ladies and gentlemen, behold the world's luckiest snake.
* [[Foot Focus]] - Tarantino film, nuff said.
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* [[Hot as Hell]] - Not [[Satan]] herself but Satanico Pandemonium fits to a T.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: "I didn't say 'Do what I do.' I said 'Do what I say.' "
* [[I'm Melting]] - Vampire bodies dissolve into a sickly green goo shortly after death.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: "Richie, will you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me? Pleeease?"
* [[Improvised Weapon]] - Quite literally by the truckload.
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* [[Off with His Head]]: {{spoiler|Jacob and Sex Machine in the first movie. Though it takes two shot to bring down the former (as Scott only blew off half his face the first shot) and it doesn't kill the latter (See Body Horror).}} The third movie has an undead mook who has this happen but he just replaces the head with a cobra before that ends up getting shot off.
* [[Oh Crap]] - {{spoiler|Sex Machine}}, after realizing that he's been turned into a vampire - and that his former friends will kill him as soon as they find out.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]
** Cheech Marin in all three of his roles.
** [[Salma Hayek]] has all of ten minutes screentime half way through the movie and is one of the most memorable things in it.
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* [[South of the Border]] - Mexico, the land of gangsters, strippers, and vampires.
* [[Spicy Latina]] - A whole stripper bar of them! With [[Salma Hayek]] as their queen-goddess.
* [[Spiritual Sequel|Spiritual Prequel
* [[Staking the Loved One]]: {{spoiler|"Richie, here is the peace in death that I could not give you in life."}}
* [[Stealth Parody]] - Of both horror and heist films.
* [[Strip Club]]: The Titty Twister is a saloon frequented by vampires, including [[Salma Hayek]]'s character (though she doesn't strip ''fully'', just down to two-piece underwear).
* [[Tattooed Crook]] - Seth.
* [[Took a Level
* [[The Virus]] - How vampirism is treated with a hint of [[Hive Mind]].
* [[Trunk Shot]] - The script was written by [[Quentin Tarantino]], so it's a given that one of these was included in the movie.
* [[Virus Victim Symptoms]] - Played for laughs.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Though they're brothers, Richie is this towards Seth. It's clear he's trying to be like Seth and earn his love and approval... but whereas Seth largely uses short bursts of directed violence pragmatically (with a few exceptions), Richie can't learn any sort of control or limits and is simply a psychopath. The sad thing is that it's clear Seth really does love Richie and is obvious about it, but Richie apparently doesn't understand he doesn't have to kill and maim to get that.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: [[Salma Hayek]] is a real-life ophidiophobe, such that she almost didn't take the part of Satanico Pandemonium because of it. [[Robert Rodriguez]] conned her into thinking that [[Madonna]] was ready to take the part instead, so she spent two months with therapists in order to overcome her fear of snakes.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] - The hostages, particularly Scott Fuller, have all the [[Genre Savvy]] needed to survive in a heist film or hostage taking film. Scott even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this by telling his father "I've seen this on TV Dad!" Pity for them the bar the Gecko Brothers choose to stop is full of ''[[Our Vampires Are Different|Fricking Vampire]] [[Fan Service|Strippers!]]''
* [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame]]: Or perhaps Your Attempt To Emulate Me Hurts Me And Fills Me With Rage. At one point after seeing what his brother has done to their hostage, Seth is at first horrified and then furiously shouts at his brother, demanding "Is this what you think ''I am''?!"
* [[Your Vampires Suck]] - All you need to do to keep these vampires at bay are two sticks put together to make a cross. Or ANYTHING resembling one. Hell, even the Red Cross of Ambulances does the trick.
** Course numbers are another thing entirely.
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