From Dusk till Dawn

Seth Gecko and his brother Richie storm a roadside Texas liquor store, killing the clerk and a Texas Ranger and destroying the building in the process. They escape with money and loot, then drive away down the highway with a hostage bank teller in tow. Richie nurses a gunshot wound as they flee toward a motel.

The Gecko brothers haul into a motel with their hostage and Richie tends his gunshot wound, preparing their next move. Seth keeps command of the situation as the plan to reach Mexico remains in motion. The hostage’s presence sharpens the sense of danger in their escape.

Seth returns from picking up dinner to find that Richie has raped and murdered the captive hostage, escalating the brothers' brutality. The pair's fragile alliance fractures further under the stress of their fugitive status. The motel becomes a grim staging ground for their onward flight.

Jacob Fuller, a widowed pastor, arrives at the motel with his teen children Scott and Kate. Seth scouts their motor home, then forces the Fullers to drive with them toward Mexico, turning the family into unwilling accomplices in the escape. The abduction sets the next leg of their journey into motion.

The group negotiates the U.S.–Mexico border; a tense encounter with a border guard ends with the guard letting them through. The convoy heads toward the desert and the Titty Twister, where their contact Carlos will meet them in the morning. The border crossing marks a key commitment to the dangerous plan.

The Gecko family and the Fullers arrive at Titty Twister, an all-night desert strip club, where they hope to meet their contact Carlos the next morning. Inside, the group tries to blend in as they wait for the deal to close. The club’s surreal, dangerous atmosphere foreshadows the horrors to come.

The group sits through a club show by Santánico Pandemonium while the bartender argues about who is allowed in, given their motor home license. Seth asserts their truck-driver legitimacy, and the patronage of the Fullers is reluctantly permitted. The mood is tense as they wait for Carlos and scheme under cover of the show.

The doorman tries to eject the group; a violent altercation erupts, leaving Richie wounded and the doorman dead. Santánico Pandemonium suddenly transforms into a vampire and attacks Richie, revealing the club’s supernatural danger.

The other strippers reveal themselves as vampires and begin feeding, while several patrons rise as the dead. Kate uses a cross pendant to kill the doorman, a decisive act that marks the group's first major counterattack against the vampire threat.

Seth shoots Santánico Pandemonium, ending her immediate threat. The survivors clear the room, find the door barred, and hear a swarm of bats outside as the chaos outside the club grows louder.

Richie rises from the dead as a vampire, while Jacob urges that he be killed. Seth reluctantly drives a stake into Richie’s heart, ending the threat posed by his undead form.

Frost tells a war story as Sex Machine, already bitten, begins turning. Sex Machine bites Frost and Jacob; Frost turns into a vampire, and Seth, Kate, and Scott retreat to a storeroom while Jacob covers their escape with a cruciform shotgun.

The survivors fashion improvised weapons from looted truck cargo. Jacob, fearing his own imminent change into a vampire, makes Scott and Kate promise to kill him when he changes.

Sex Machine morphs into a were-rat and attacks Seth, but Kate shoots him dead. Jacob defeats Frost and later confronts Scott, who hesitates and is bitten; the surrounding vampires close in as the dawn approaches.

Morning light pours through holes in the walls, driving the vampires back. Carlos arrives with bodyguards and floods the room with sunlight, killing the remaining vampires. Seth negotiates a smaller price for admission to El Rey, while Kate drives away in the Fuller motor home, and Titty Twister is revealed to sit atop a buried Aztec temple of abandoned trucks.