A beautiful young woman is running through the jungle with
dark-skinned natives in pursuit. They catch her and throw her into a pit full
of snakes, one of which, in a don't-tell-me-this-isn't-Freudian shot, plunges
itself deep into her wide open mouth.
The scene shifts to two Texas Rangers, rookie FREDDIE
GONZALES and his mentor, EARL MCGRAW. They walk up to a convenience store out
in the desert, but unfortunately, brothers SETH and RICHIE GEKKO, who have just
robbed a bank and killed some people, are inside. Seth is sort of a nice guy.
He describes himself as a thief, not a killer, and, in fact, he does not kill
people, at least not for the hell of it. Richie, on the other hand, is a total
nutcase.
Seth tells the store clerk not to let the ranchers know he
and his brother are there. The ranchers enter, and Earl says he wants to 'drain
the lizard'. When he returns from the bathroom, Richie, convinced that 'drain
the lizard' was a code to the rangers, starts shooting. Earl is mortally
wounded, and with his dying breath, tells Freddie to kill the Gekko brothers.
Freddie agrees. He will pursue the brothers no matter what the cost - his
career, his life, and even his family's life. And it may very well come to
that.
Though the title and the first scene suggest supernatural,
the rest of the pilot episode doesn't show it. True, Richie hears voices and
sees weird images, but he's so crazy, you don't have to consider paranormal.
But in the second episode, vampires appear, and in the third episode, the snake
lady is explained.
There is only one clear shot of naked breasts, which is
strange because a lot of the action takes place in a bar called the Titty
Twister. Maybe they felt that unlimited murder, torture and blood was okay for
kiddies, but bare boobs? No way.
The series is an elaboration of the movie, From Dusk to Dawn
and, like the movie, is violent, interesting, and without a lot of repetition.
On the whole it grabs your interest. Another season is planned, and I'll
probably watch it. I give it ++++. It will get your pulse up to a run.
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