Artistic License History: Professor Tanner mentions to Freddie that the Culebras' symbol appears in "codexes going back three thousand years"-except that paper technology wasn't even developed in the Americas until around the 5th century CE."The Gecko Brothers ride again/The Gecko Brothers are back.".A Lighter Shade of Black: The Gecko brothers are thieves and murderers, but the vampires run an international drug cartel and drain innocent girls by the container-full.
In the series hes a full blown vampire and intentionally leading the Geckos to the Titty Twister.
In the original movie Carlos was merely the brothers contact in Mexico and unaware of the Titty Twisters true nature.Adaptation Personality Change: While his movie counterpart was just a random badass who happened to be at the bar that night, in the show Sex Machine is really Professor Tanner, an undercover professor of archeology following the trail of the Blood Cult.The vampire Santanico Pandemonium is portrayed as a Tragic Monster in the series, whereas in the movie she had no such redeeming traits and was an unambiguous monster.Richie Gecko is still a creepy psycho, but unlike his movie counterpart, he has the excuse that supernatural forces are actively messing with his head.Even the specific race of the Vampires is expanded, in the movie, only Santanico was snake-like, now every vampire is snake-like.Until the seventh episode, when the show's plot takes another direction. At the same time it adds new characters and provides a backstory absent from the original film. Adaptation Expansion: The first season of the series follows the plot of the movie relatively faithfully, but at a much slower pace.In the films he was a reckless psychopath whom Seth had to keep on a proverbial leash while in the series, he's still pretty unhinged, but that was mainly due to psychic manipulations from Santanico and he was described as a pretty competent thief prior to Seth's arrest.
In the series, they stop to kick Richie's ass, first. Their film counterparts run out the door when the shooting happens. The two young women Richie takes hostage in the first episode.In the film, she is a middle aged and white, while in the series, she is a younger Latina woman. The bank teller the brothers hold hostage, along with a Race Lift.Inverted by Robert Patrick in Harvey Keitel's former role.Carlos was played by Cheech Marin in the film and by the younger and better looking Wilmer Valderrama in the series.Richie Gecko was played by Quentin Tarantino in the original movie, but in the series hes played by a former male model.Abusive Parents: The Geckos father took out his frustrations on his children.