Horror Westerns...

[Dr.Kelvinstein]

Avenger and I were talking about these hybrids a while ago. Anyone else dig this truly strange sub-genre? I'm talking the likes of Ghost Town, Curse Of The Undead, Pale Rider, and even violent Gothic Westerns out of Italy like Fulci's Four for the Apocalypse; Kill, Django, Kill; and The Stranger's Gundown. Even the novels Dead in the West and Magin Wagon by Joe R Lansdale. Anyone have any faves or opinions????

[avenger00soul]

I'll go ahead and post mine. Ghost Town, Sundown, The Last Outlaw, High Plains Drifter and The Legend of the Phantom Rider. Phantom Rider is one of my favorites. There's no dialogue for at least 10 minutes of the movie. Really cool and surprising flick. I really want to see the Django movies b/c Franco Nero is the shit. Are they worth it Dr. K?

[buddy]

by no means a horror movie but certainly graphic enough with a staggering body count in an all-out final scene that makes scarface's look like a disney production would be the wild bunch

[avenger00soul]

Originally posted by buddy
by no means a horror movie but certainly graphic enough with a staggering body count in an all-out final scene that makes scarface's look like a disney production would be the wild bunch

Not horror, but great movie nonetheless.

[Sam The Egg]

High Planes Drifter wasn't horror, that was straight Western

[avenger00soul]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
High Planes Drifter wasn't horror, that was straight Western

This was a touchy subject with Ravenbomb too. You even spelled it the same way he/she did...incorrectly. It was a western/ghost story.

[Sam The Egg]

They never brought up ghosts. They implied it at the end, but that doesn't make it a ghost story. Also, Ravenbomb mixed up it with something else.

[meetthecreeper]

I loved High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider, the man with no name, behold a pale horse, and he who sat upon him was death.

Avenger have you ever seen the movie Purgatory? I believe thats what it was called, where all the old gunfighters are in Purgatory, and if they revert back to their old ways of killing and such they were taken to the gates of Hell. If I remember correctly they had to spend so much time there before they were allowed final passage to the afterlife. I know it was a made for TV film but I thought it was quite good. Kind of an intersting twist on a western.

Speaking of just westerns, my favorite is tied between Outlaw Josey Wales and Tombstone both excellent films.

[avenger00soul]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
They never brought up ghosts. They implied it at the end, but that doesn't make it a ghost story. Also, Ravenbomb mixed up it with something else.

Ravenbomb didn't mix it up with anything, he/she was just being a jackass.

It was a strong implication that he was an avenging ghost. The title even implies it. It has a double meaning to me. He was literally a high plains drifter and also high plains (heaven) and drifter (restless and wandering spirit). Ghost story in my eyes. It is an opinionated topic though.

[avenger00soul]

Originally posted by meetthecreeper
Avenger have you ever seen the movie Purgatory? I believe thats what it was called, where all the old gunfighters are in Purgatory, and if they revert back to their old ways of killing and such they were taken to the gates of Hell. If I remember correctly they had to spend so much time there before they were allowed final passage to the afterlife. I know it was a made for TV film but I thought it was quite good. Kind of an intersting twist on a western.

Did it star Randy Quaid as Doc Holliday?