From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter is a 2000 American horror film, a prequel to the 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn. It was released straight to video and nominated for the Best Home Video Release Saturn Award. In late 2010 it was reported that a possible fourth film in the series may be produced. This prequel to the first From Dusk Till Dawn is set in Mexico in the early 1900s. It begins with American author Ambrose Bierce having a nightmare about his future death at the hands of Pancho Villa. Bierce wakes up and talks to a local bartender about his intensions to join Pancho Villa's... revolutionary army. Bierce joins a stagecoach with the newlywed couple John and Mary Newlie, who are travelling Mexico to preach Christianity. Meanwhile Johnny Madrid, a dangerous local outlaw, escapes from the gallows and then kidnaps his hangman's beautiful daughter, Esmeralda, with a little help from Reece, a young woman who wants to become Johnny's apprentice as an outlaw. With the hangman and a local posse on their trail, Johnny meets with his gang who all rob Bierce's stagecoach because of Reece's belief that Bierce keeps an invaluble object.
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