Matt Serafini of Dread Central rated it 2/5 stars and wrote that the original film should not have had any sequels. Mike Emery of the Houston Chronicle wrote that the film "isn't terribly bad" but is too derivative and only for gore hounds. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 22% of nine surveyed critics gave the film a positive review the average rating was 4/10. The American Cinematheque held the West Coast premiere at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 30, 1999.
As they leave, the camera zooms out to show the Mayan temple behind the vampires' building, referencing the first film.Īfter the closing credits, Bierce's legendary disappearance has an answer. Madrid looks away sadly and joins Ambrose's quest to join Pancho Villa's army. Santánico screams for Madrid not to leave her as the entrance closes. Santánico kills her grandmother, then bites and turns her father into a vampire, but he manages to open the entranceway and kills Quixtla with sunlight before the change finishes, allowing Madrid and Bierce to escape while Santánico hides from the sunlight. Reece is bitten in the scuffle while Madrid kills Ezra.
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Madrid manages to break from his bonds and free the others. Madrid, Mauricio, Bierce, and Reece are hung upside-down to be fed on later as Quixtla and Esmeralda's vampire grandmother transform Esmeralda into a full-fledged vampire princess, renaming her Santánico Pandemonium. Thanks to his mistreatment and Madrid's kidnapping, she has been led back to Quixtla. Mauricio took her away, hoping to raise her as a normal human, and tried to kill her unsuccessfully. She reveals that Esmeralda is the dhampir daughter of Quixtla and Mauricio and will become a full-fledged vampire princess named Santánico Pandemonium. The group eventually ends up back at the bar entrance, only to find Quixtla and the vampires waiting for them. As the remaining survivors keep going, Bierce admits to reading in the papers that Reece is an outlaw who killed her entire family. Doomed, he persuades Madrid to stake him to prevent him from turning.
As they continue through the catacombs, he turns and bites John. Joaquin, who escaped with them, hides a bite he received from a prostitute earlier. Mary rises as a vampire and goes after the group, revealing that John is a fraud who only married Mary for her father's money. Madrid, Bierce, Reece, John, Esmeralda, Mauricio, and Joaquin manage to escape into the dungeons beneath the building and try to work together to find a way out. He grabs the helpless Mary and hypnotizes and bites her. Vampire women overcome and feed on Ezra and quickly becomes a vampire. They kill all of Mauricio's men and the remnants of Madrid's gang except for Joaquin and Madrid. The vampires eventually reveal themselves, lock the exit and attack the patrons. As night falls, John gets into a fight with one of Madrid's men, drawing blood. Mauricio is the only one who knows that a group of vampires run the establishment, led by the high priestess, Quixtla, who is immediately drawn to Esmeralda.
They meet Ezra Traylor, a businessman heading to the U.S. The posse finds her, using her to track the two.Īs night falls, all the parties coincidentally seek shelter in an isolated inn called La Tetilla Del Diablo (the Titty Twister from the first film) that also serves as a brothel. Annoyed by this, Madrid leaves Reece hanging in the desert. The gang does not find anything of value, with Bierce claiming he is the invaluable object, as he intends to join with Pancho Villa. They later rob Bierce's stagecoach because of Reece's belief that Bierce possesses an invaluable object. Madrid meets with his gang with Mauricio and a local posse on their trail. Madrid receives assistance from Catherine Reece, a young woman who wants to become Madrid's apprentice as an outlaw. Meanwhile, Johnny Madrid, a dangerous local outlaw, escapes from the gallows and kidnaps his hangman Mauricio's beautiful 19-year-old teenage daughter Esmeralda. He joins a stagecoach transporting a newlywed couple, John and Mary Newlie, who are traveling to Mexico to preach Christianity. Bierce wakes and talks to a local bartender about his intentions to join Pancho Villa's revolutionary army.
In 1913 Mexico, an American author, Ambrose Bierce, experiences a nightmare in which he dies at the hands of Pancho Villa.
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