Too Cool to Live: Frost and Sex Machine.They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: For the rare first-time viewer who didn't know about the Halfway Plot Switch, the first half of the film sets up a premise and conflict that, had it been truly followed up on, could have been a lot more interesting than the mindless gorefest that the film turns into.However, they're all killed within minutes of showing their true colors and most of the vampires fought from that point forward are just interchangeable mooks. They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Santanico Pandemonium, Chet Pussy, Razor Charlie and the bouncer are all vampires with distinct personalities and have a considerable leadership presence in the vampire swarm living at the Titty Twister.It's famous both for the Fanservice (see above) and how it marks the transition point between the movie's two genres. Signature Scene: Salma Hayek appears on stage at the Bad-Guy Bar to perform a sexy dance with a snake draped around her neck.Especially since he dies but doesn't get to come back as a vampire. He's also the one making idiotic suggestions to his father that would get them killed and never proves himself indispensable like the others did, making him rather forgettable compared to everyone else. The Scrappy: Scott isn't a very popular character, since although part of the sympathetic Fuller family, he lacks the charisma of Jacob and the wit of Kate.John Hawkes as a store clerk who is held hostage by the Geckos in the opening scene.Her face is prominently on the cover of the box, for God's sake. Salma Hayek has all of ten minutes screentime half way through the movie and is one of the most memorable things in it.Cheech Marin in all three of his roles.Nausea Fuel: Among the different types of pussy at Titty Twister are "bloody, horse, and chicken." This is the reason why the Mexican Spanish dub changed this line to women instead, which ironically makes the original line even more disturbing.According to Quentin Tarantino, he had already crossed it with his first rape (in every movie he's directed and/or written, he kills off every character who's a rapist, particularly if the rapist is his character). Moral Event Horizon: Richie's rape and murder of his and Seth's hostage.Memetic Mutation: The pussy monologue and Salma Hayek's snake dance are both extremely memorable scenes, and as such, they've both taken on a life of their own beyond the movie.It Was His Sled: The first and second half of this movie are two completely different stories scotch-tapped together.John Hawkes would later get nominated for Winter's Bone, though. Pete Bottoms, the ill-fated store clerk in the beginning of the movie, says to Seth that he's acting natural and quips "I should win a fucking Academy Award for acting natural".Extra hilarity he also voiced vampire lord Demitri Maximoff in Darkstalkers few years later. The hilarity came with the fact Hirano hunts zombies and Scott is turned into a vampire and later killed off. A decade later, he ends voicing Kouta Hirano. In the Japanese dub of the film, Nobuyuki Hiyama voices Scott Fuller, who was one of his first roles as a voice actor.And even though Planet Terror is shown before Death Proof, the latter takes place first chronologically. The duo would end up doing exactly that in their later film Grindhouse.
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