| From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter | |
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| Directed by | P.J. Pesce |
| Produced by | Quentin Tarantino Robert Rodríguez Lawrence Bender |
| Screenplay by | Álvaro Rodríguez |
| Story by | Álvaro Rodríguez Robert Rodríguez |
| Starring | Marco Leonardi Michael Parks Rebecca Gayheart Ara Celi Lennie Lofin Orlando Jones Danny Trejo Jordana Spiro Temuera Morrison Sonia Braga |
| Music by | Nathan Barr |
| Cinematography | Michael Bonvillain |
| Editing by | Lawrence A. Maddox |
| Studio | A Band Apart Los Hooligans |
| Distributed by | Dimension Films |
| Release date(s) | January 18, 2000 |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Language | English |
From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter is a 2000 American horror film, a prequel to the 1996 film From Dusk till Dawn. It was released straight to video and nominated for the Best Home Video Release Saturn Award.
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This prequel to the first From Dusk Till Dawn is set in Mexico in the early 1900s. It begins with the escape of Johnny Madrid, a dangerous local outlaw, from the gallows who then kidnaps his hangman's beautiful daughter, Esmeralda, with a little help from Reece, a young woman who wants to become Johnny's apprentice as an outlaw. With the hangman and a local posse on their trail, Johnny meets with his gang who all rob a stagecoach which contains American author Ambrose Bierce, who has come to Mexico to join Pancho Villa's army, along with newlywed couple John and Mary Newlie, who are travelling Mexico to preach Christianity.
As night falls, all parties coincidentally seek shelter in an isolated inn/whorehouse which is run by vampires led by the high priestess Quixtla who targets Esmeralda. John is revealed to be a fraud as a preacher, who only married Mary for her father's money. Reece is revealed to be a known outlaw who killed her whole family. Esmeralda is revealed to be the half-human, half-vampire princess Santanico Pandemonium, Salma Hayek's character in the original From Dusk till Dawn, and the daughter of Quixtla.
Eventually the various humans must set aside their differences to survive the vampire attack. But they are eventually captured and Esmerelda transforms into the vampire princess. Esmerelda turns her father (the hangman) into a vampire but he kills Quixtla before the change is complete. Only Johnny and Ambrose manage to escape alive. As the film ends, Johnny joins Ambrose's quest to join Pancho Villa's army and Esmerelda screams for Johnny not to leave her as they walk into the sunset.
After the credits roll, Ambrose is revealed to have told this story to someone in a bar. He refuses to believe in vampires. Ambrose offers proof and proceeds to turn into a vampire himself and kill the listener.
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