12The Backwater Gospel is a short film, published on YouTube, that is a bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop. It is about a small town called Backwater that is in [ … ]
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Vengeance (1968) – Gothic Western Film of Revenge
“Vengeance” is a Spaghetti Western that definitely qualifies as a great Gothic Western film. Below is a description of the film that is as good as you’re going to get. [ … ]
Godless (2017) – A Town Run By Women
Godless begins in the 1880s American West as murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin hunts for ex-protégé Roy Goode. Frank’s chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico – a [ … ]
Black Noon (1971) – Old West Devil Cult
A traveling minister and his wife are quietly menaced by a devil cult in the Old West. By the time the Good Reverend figures out what’s going on it may [ … ]
Ghost Town (1988): Among the Best of 80’s Western Horror Films
In one of the best Western Horror films to come along, 1988’s Ghost Town opens as Deputy Langley (Franc Luz) picks up the trail of Kate (Catherine Hickland), a runaway [ … ]
Strange Empire: Strong Women in the Old West
Press release: STRANGE EMPIRE is a Western whose heroes are women in the Old West. With most of their men gone, and those who remain battling for control, the women struggle [ … ]
Curse of the Undead (1959): Cinema’s First Vampire Western
The cinema’s first vampire Western! Young women in a small Western town are dying one by one of an unknown malady involving massive blood loss. The Carter family’s ranch is [ … ]
Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch and the Gothic West
With Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch explores demented and supernatural experience of the Western genre. It is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. [ … ]
The Salvation (2014) – The Brutal American West of the 1870s
In the American West of the 1870s, a European settler, Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen), has just welcomed his wife and son to the country when they are kidnapped and murdered. [ … ]
True Grit (2010) – Brooding Gothic Western Style
On the surface it would seem that in remaking the 1969 John Wayne film True Grit, the Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel) have remade a good film into a great [ … ]