But the town the Indians call the Unhappy Place is way beyond redemption even if it's the town's two leading citizens who use their influence to incite the ignorant inhabitants into a bloodthirsty lynch mob. Beautiful Blue Underground transfer. One--- crazy-ass name. quite an appropriate double feature I accidentally stumbled upon, Every Horror Film Made from 1895 - present, Opening the Vault: A Chronological History of Queer Interest & LGBTQ+ Cinema, The Chronological History of the Cinematic Macabre, Genre: Exploitation (100 Years: 1896-1995), Out Of The Closets And Into The Cinemas! An intriguing question that only adds another layer of mystery on to this film. I was expecting something a but more raucous. I was expecting something a but more raucous. Two--- it certainly feels like a spaghetti western. Don’t forget to select your favorite films! All the basic technical elements are there and fairly soundly so: the sets, the soundtrack, the costumes and cinematography, it all feels right. You know you're in bad shape with a movie when the bloodthirsty mob that occasionally materializes to do some damage proves to be the most interesting character(s) in the film. Yeah it gets really crazy at the end, but crazy enough to justify the 110 minutes you had to sit through just to get there? We see a drunk with his foot on a little girl; through a window, a man threatens a woman, who bites him; a naked boy stands next to the street, playing with his penis. on 2020-10-04. The sci-fi angle with how the crooks here are causing planes to crash is interesting though; same goes for the crime elements like the crooks communicating in code via a children's radio program broadcast. Overall, a very interesting movie. Watching it this time, I realized how disturbing certain parts really were. on 2020-10-05, Nathanael Booth liked Mazinkaiser’s ★★★ review of The Batman vs. Dracula Almost unbelievably nasty even by spaghetti western standards - penultimate shot tells you all you really need to know, with two kids hanging out in a cemetery competing with each other to make the ugliest face. - High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the Film sourced from the Original Negative.- Django Kill and the evolution of Tomas Milian Featurette- Original Se Sei Vivo Spara Trailer- Reversible Sleeve with alternative art work. It’s a gothic acid western with elements of melodrama and horror. 1967 Classic weirdo spaghetti western. It's just a shame about the script and the direction and a lot of the performances. Almost unbelievably nasty even by spaghetti western standards - penultimate shot tells you all you really need to know, with two kids hanging out in a cemetery competing with each other to make the ugliest face. I think it could have been condensed into 90 minutes, but the weird and macabre finale makes up for the meandering moments. Half documentary, half drama, and not terribly good at being either. Questi has said that his experiences as an anti-Fascist partisan during World War II in the mountains in Italy, so Sorrow’s black clad bandits, I suppose, are suppose to represent Mussolini’s soldiers and, a large guess this, the townsfolk are standing in for the middle classes of Italy who complacently let a dictator seize power and then did nothing about it. This makes it maybe less entertaining, but far more nightmarish. Maybe just a bit too slow-paced but it was still entertaining throughout and something was always happening. Evil Dead zombie hand bursts forth from the ground, but it belongs not to your average member of the undead. A descent into hell, Italian style. The Unhappy Place. Not sure about this one. Corny, awful but all the actors had nice teeth!!! One of the more bonkers spaghetti westerns. DBC is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Everything else is fine. Even the subtext syncs up with Django; whereas the original film painted its hero as a kind of psychopomp, drifting into towns with a coffin in tow, Django Kill actually starts with…. © 2004-2019 THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN DATABASE. on 2020-10-07, Nathanael Booth reviewed, liked and rated Weekend at Bernie's ★★★½ on Sunday Oct 4, 2020 The actor in later interviews felt ambiguous about his performance, but I find it hard to imagine another person in the role. Film data from TMDb. :( Maybe in the future. 2019. There are plot holes and scenes that don't make any sense, as well as characters that are completely superfluous. I thought Milian's performance was quite silly at times, and all the great lines go to the bad guys. hamburger splash 1,806 films 9,941 98 Edit, A list that is trying to contain every horror film made that is not lost and is found on the…, Darren Carver-Balsiger 954 films 17,396 1253 Edit. No wait, that's not what I was gonna bring up. in conclusion: eat this movies ass, citizen kane. Directed by Giulio Questi. No wait, that's not what I was gonna bring up. If You Live, Shoot! Join here. Four stars is default, adjustments made according to whether the movie justifies them. IMDb Wikipedia: 197: Django… Adios! Wikipedia specifies that despite the title of the film Milián isn't actually supposed to be Django. Sure, as I said before a lot of the technical elements are on point, but aside from the occasional bit of sly humor or shocking violence the rest was pretty lacking. The satisfaction of a revenge arc is removed (quite spectacularly) within the first half hour, and Tomas Milian's nameless character is left to wander adrift between a purgatorial town of child and animal abusing maniacs and a black uniform wearing gang of homosexual* ruffians led by a Mexican bandit who late in the movie gets dressed down by his chatty parrot. One--- crazy-ass name. is one of the very best Spaghetti Westerns for its surreal atmosphere, fantastic directing, editing and photography, and layers of meaning. AKA: Django, Kill!, Django Kill, Django Kill!, Se sei vivo spara, Brazil (alternative title) (O Pistoleiro das Balas de Ouro (Matar para Viver e Viver para Matar)). For when you want to wallow in despair. Mobile site. Yet the screenplay, by Franco Arcalli and Giulio Questi, at first glance, seems to travel the same well trodden path of many other Spaghetti Westerns: Bleak, surreal, grim, and filled with horror tinged setpieces, gay cowboys, and trippy editing. Two--- it certainly feels like a spaghetti western. There’s a lot to think about with the gold crown, suicide, sadism, and just dour opinion of humanity. on 2020-10-09, Nathanael Booth reviewed and rated A Midsummer Night's Dream ★★★ on Tuesday Oct 6, 2020 A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. Django Kill, if You Live, Shoot! A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach.