Dr.Kelvinstein
01-23-2004, 10:39 PM
Before anyone says anything---YES, High Plains Drifter IS horror, or at least has horror elements (I mean the main character is a ghost, after all).
Anyhow, last night I watched a spaghetti Western called The Strangers Gundown (that's its DVD title, but it's more commonly known as Django The Bastard) in which the main character is a ghost who is avenging his murder. The similarities between this and HPD were too many to be simple coincidence. The end is almost identical, all the way down to a similar one-liner that gives away the character's ghostly condition. The neatest thing here, though, was that before each gunfight, Django would hammer into the ground a cross with his opponent's name and the date carved into it. If you like HPD check it out, and it's a really cheap DVD, too.
Anyhow, last night I watched a spaghetti Western called The Strangers Gundown (that's its DVD title, but it's more commonly known as Django The Bastard) in which the main character is a ghost who is avenging his murder. The similarities between this and HPD were too many to be simple coincidence. The end is almost identical, all the way down to a similar one-liner that gives away the character's ghostly condition. The neatest thing here, though, was that before each gunfight, Django would hammer into the ground a cross with his opponent's name and the date carved into it. If you like HPD check it out, and it's a really cheap DVD, too.