Santánico Pandemonium (From Dusk Till Dawn)

Santánico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) is a villainess from the 1996 movie From Dusk Till Dawn

History[]

Santanico was born as a dhampir named Esmeralda to The Hangman and Quixtla in 1894. She never knew her mother, as her father raised her himself instead. Throughout the years, the Hangman abused her and tried to raise her as a human, so she wouldn't go back to her mother. In 1913 she witnessed Johnny Madrid about to be executed by her father. When Johnny's noose is shot off, he escapes with Esmeralda; they arrive in La Tetilla del Diablo, where she learns that her mother was Quixtla, the vampire princess. She completes her transformation into a full fledged vampire being renamed Santanico Pandemonium, and kills her grandmother. She also turns her father into a vampire, and when Johnny leaves, she begs for him to come back, but the door closes.

100 years later, she is the queen of the Titty Twisters vampires and lures truckers into the bar as an attractive young dancer where she feasts upon them with her fellow vampires. One night the main heroes Richie and Seth Gecko arrive at the bar. Santanico gives the crowd a seductive dance involving a Boa and lets Richie drink tequila off her feet. After the performance, Richie and Seth get into a fight with one of the bar's bouncers. Santanico seems amused by the situation, but once some blood starts flowing, her hunger kicks in. She starts breathing heavily and can no longer contain herself: her appearance changes into a snake-like beast with fangs and scales and without hair. She jumps on Richies back and bites him in the neck. He tries to shake her off, but fails; only Seth manages to shoot her in the head a few seconds later but Richie is already dead. The seemingly dead Santanico lies on the floor while the chaos around her erupts as the other vampires start fighting the guests.

A few moments later, Santanico reappears in her human form, and mocks Seth about whether he will taste as good as his brother. Seth shoots her once again and she goes to the ground with a shriek but rises again quickly, visibly angered. She punches him with her super human strength and then pins him to the ground by placing her bare foot on his chest. Seth starts reloading his gun but certain of her victory she doesn't bother and instead taunts him of how he is not worthy to become a full vampire and will forever be her personal dog. She transforms into the snake creature again, and welcomes him to slavery, but Seth only replies: "No thanks, I already had a wife" and shoots the chandelier above her, which falls down. The perplexed Santanico looks up but is too late, as the chandelier impales her. Her body starts burning and turns into black slime. Her expression is full of pain; as the chandelier impales the demoness, she suffers heavy pain and dies into nothing.

Appearance[]

She has long dark brown hair with tanned skin and voluptuous body. In her vampire form, she looks like a reptile, with flaked skin, snake eyes, with pointed ears and fangs.

Personality[]

She sees herself as superior to humans and enjoys being admired. By letting Richie lick her feet and towering over Seth with her foot on his chest she resembles a classic domina. Her talk of slavery and Seth's unworthiness adds to that impression.