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Quentin Tarantino has a style, and Robert Rodriguez has a style.

Long before Grindhouse, they created a film which gave away their individual preferences as filmmakers, and that film was From Dusk Til Dawn.

Tarantino likes dusty, contemporary spaghetti western-tinged crime stories, usually involving a road trip, full of verbose characters rambling at each other before suddenly drawing their guns and shooting it out.

Rodriguez likes hackneyed dialogue and ridiculously over-the-top action sequences, usually involving monsters with heavy makeup.

So in Dawn, which was written by Tarantino and directed by Rodriguez, it’s not surprising to find that it’s a tale of two styles.

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