SOURCE: "Add Horror, Drama, Robbers, a Biker Bar; Blend on High," in Los Angeles Times, January 19, 1996, pp. F1, F8.

In the following review, Mathews offers unfavorable assessment of From Dusk Till Dawn.

As both a veteran video store clerk and movie junkie, Quentin Tarantino knows that "The Desperate Hours" belongs in the drama section and "Night of the Living Dead" in the horror. So where, if he had his old job, would he rack Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn, which, in the blink of an eye, shifts from the first genre to the second, all in the name of comedy?

Tarantino wrote From Dusk Till Dawn in 1990 for a reported fee of $1,500. It was undoubtedly one of those projects he hoped to get made for the price of a used Acura, and maybe garner a few kind words in Fangoria magazine. But something called Pulp Fiction happened...