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- Brimstone. A sinister and brooding tale of revenge set in the North American West, Brimstone is a bombastic and outrageous Western horror movie that thrives to tell a massive biblical and device story but also includes some pulse-pounding horror in the mix.
- Bone Tomahawk. Dirty, vicious, cold, and outstandingly brutal, Bone Tomahawk is the quintessential Western horror movie as it combines elements from both polarizing genres together in, arguably, the best way it's ever been done.
- From Dusk till Dawn. From the sandy deserts of Mexico to the run-down desolate wasteland of Texas, From Dusk Till Dawn follows the template of a traditional Western to a tee, that is of course until the blood-sucking vampires show up.
- Tremors. Coming across a true-blue western horror movie is almost impossible as the polarizing combination isn't something too many filmmakers want to try their hands at, but instead want to sprinkle elements of both genres into to create something spectacular, and no film manages to blend elements of action, adventure, western, and horror better than Tremors.
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- Westworld
- Bone Tomahawk
- Ravenous
- Near Dark
- High Plains Drifter
J.T. Petty's atmospheric horror-western The Burrowers was adapted from his own short film entitled Blood Red Earth. The period-set creature-featurestars Clancy Brown as John Clay, a veteran tracker who leads a mission to find missing family. Set in the Dakota territories of 1879, Clay and his men are tasked with finding a family thought to have bee...
One of the better horror westerns to come out in the last two decades includes Dead Birds, directed by Alex Turner from a script penned by Simon Barrett. The film follows a unit of criminal Confederate Soldiers in the Civil War who get far more than they bargained for upon an attempted bank heist. RELATED: The 5 Best Opening Scenes (& 5 Endings) Of...
While it may rank low in his own personal filmography, John Carpenter's Vampiresis still one of the better examples of the neo-western-horror mash-up. James Woods stars as Jack Crow in the film, a grizzled vampire slayer hell-bent on avenging the bloodsucking ghouls that wiped out his entire crew. On his quest to slay as many vampires as possible, ...
One of the more recent examples of a terrifying horror-western includes The Wind, Emma Tami's directorial debut about a woman's hardscrabble existence on the American frontier in the late 1800s. RELATED: 10 Best Horror Directors Of The 21st Century (So Far) Written by Teresa Sutherland, the film follows Lizzy Macklin (Caitlin Gerard), a woman who f...
One of the more subtly ambiguous horror-westerns is Pale Rider, the eleventh feature film directed by Clint Eastwood. The iconic western movie legend also starsas the title character, itself a coy indication that his true nature is a ghastly apparition. When Preacher (Eastwood) suddenly storms into town, he vengefully protects a small town from a r...
Written and directed by famed novelist Michael Crichton, Westworld served as the direct inspiration for the 2016 hit HBO series of the same name. The film is set in an adult theme park modeled after the American wild west. RELATED: 10 Cruelest Bad Guys In Westerns Just like the TV show, things turn horrific when the robotic hosts inside the park ma...
S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawkis one of the most barbarously violent horror westerns of recent memory. The film stars Kurt Russell as a small-town Sheriff who helps make a stand against a Neanderthalic race of underground cannibals. When the cannibalistic ghouls overrun the town of Bright Hope in the 1890s, Sheriff Hunt (Russell) rounds up a gang ...
Speaking of cannibalistic horror-westerns, none top Antonia Bird's breathtaking 1999 film Ravenous. The film boasts an all-star cast in a story that finds a group of westward expansion settlers driven to flesh-eating madness when stranded at a snowbound outpost. Following a cowardly act during the Mexican-American War, Captain John Boyd (Guy Pearce...
Before winning an Oscar for Best Director for The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow delivered one of the all-time best neo-western horror mash-ups ever assembled. Co-written by Eric Red,Near Darkmelds the iconography of the American western landscape with the terrifying tableau of a vicious vampire film. RELATED: Kathryn Bigelow's 10 Best Movies, Accord...
The greatest horror-western ever made belongs to Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter, his second directorial feature. Eastwood stars as The Stranger, a mysterious enforcer who rides into Lago and uses his influence to clean the town up. Much like Pale Rider, the titleHigh Plains Drifterrefers to the subliminal fact that The Stranger is a supernatu...
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- 'Bone Tomahawk' (2015) One of the most successful blendings of horror and Western, Bone Tomahawk stars Kurt Russell as Sheriff Hunt, who must venture out of his small town after several of his residents are abducted by mysterious, violent cave dwellers.
- 'Bacurau' (2019) Hailing from Brazil, Bacurau is set in the titular town as strange happenings beset the residents. As the townspeople mourn the death of their village matriarch, they must contend with phone signals droppings out, the town disappearing from GPS maps, sightings of UFO-like objects, and the arrival of an American film crew.
- 'Tremors' (1990) One of the most beloved horror comedies of the 1990s, Tremors stars Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward (in one of the late actor's best performances) as two handymen who come across giant, worm-like creatures that eat people from beneath the earth—joining forces with the residents of their town, the pair fight to survive against the monsters as they try to stay off the ground.
- 'The Wind' (2018) Taking place in the 19th century on the American frontier, The Wind follows Lizzy (Caitlin Gerard), who lives alone with her husband Isaac (Ashley Zukerman).
- Bone Tomahawk. Bone Tomahawk is a 2015 western horror film directed by S. Craig Zahler that stars Kurt Russell and Patrick Wilson. This slow-burn film follows a group of cowboys who set out to rescue several kidnapped settlers from a tribe of violent cannibals.
- The Wind. The Wind is a 2018 supernatural Western horror film directed by Emma Tammi. The film follows a young couple who move to rural New Mexico in hopes of starting a settlement.
- The Hills Have Eyes. Another entry that is less Western and more post-apocalyptic horror set in the desert, Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes is another classic film with elements of both genres.
- Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat is a 1989 Western horror comedy directed by Anthony Hickox. Set in the small town of Purgatory, the film follows a group of vampires who live oddly normal lives with the help of SPF 100 sunscreen and a human blood substitute, Necktarine.
Aug 14, 2024 · Dating back to the earliest uses of claymation monsters in B-movie Westerns, filmmakers have used the desolate, lawless setting to great effect in telling scary stories. Where some movies will lean into the horror element more, others make the scares almost incidental to the Old West setting.
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Feb 7, 2024 · Explore the best Western horror movies, blending 19th-century Wild West settings with supernatural horrors. Dive in now!
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The 10 Best Horror Western Movies of All Time. The Hollywood Western was once one of the most popular of genres. Set in the late 19th century, attentive to Old West myth-making, folk heroes, and morality tales, it was an altogether American invention. Tying these familiar genre trappings with those of horror and fantasy is also a long tradition ...
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