The film is set in Mexico in the early 1900s. Johnny Madrid, an outlaw facing execution, escapes the hangman's noose and takes off with Esmeralda, the hangman's daughter. Her father sets out after them, enraged at both the escape and the taking of his child. Johnny and his gang, along with Esmeralda and other travellers they encounter on the road, end up sheltering for the night in a roadside establishment whose occupants turn out to be vampires. The humans are forced to band together against a shared and ancient threat, since a single bite is enough to turn a living person into one of the creatures.
P.J. Pesce directed the film, which followed his 1994 debut The Desperate Trail in his filmography. Álvaro Rodríguez wrote the screenplay, and Elizabeth Avellan, Gianni Nunnari and Meir Teper produced it for Dimension Films, Miramax, A Band Apart and Los Hooligans Productions. Marco Leonardi plays Johnny Madrid, with Ara Celi as Esmeralda, Michael Parks as the writer Ambrose Bierce, Rebecca Gayheart as Mary Newlie, Lennie Loftin as John Newlie and Orlando Jones as Ezra Traylor. It runs 94 minutes and had a budget of 5 million USD.
Released in January 2000, the horror-western drew a 4.8 rating on IMDb from around 13,000 votes and a 4.9 on TMDB from roughly 405 votes. A critics' rating of 5.3 from nine reviews places it in similar territory to the audience scores, suggesting a modest reception across the board.
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