The session: "Westerns with a Twist of Monster"
For this year's version of our session of Westerns, Keith is showing us four mashups: Westerns with monsters
As always, there may be spoilers here. And the trailer may be NSFW and/or NSFL.
Week 2: Curse of the Undead (1959)
Directed by Edward Dein
My Impressions Going In:
Never heard of this one.
A mysterious disease is claiming the lives of the young women in town. Can Preacher Dan save the day?
Reaction and Other Folderol:
This was much better than The Beast of Hollow Mountain, which we saw the previous week. Beast seemed like two separate movies -- an hour of typical Hollywood Western followed by a half hour or so of a T-Rex running wild through town. By contrast, Curse did a good job of integrating its Western trappings with the vampire plot.
There were a lot of really good one-liners thrown into the dialog, which was fun. For a movie of this type, the characters were surprisingly well-developed. I enjoyed the fact that the villain himself was shown, through revelation of his backstory, to be ambiguously evil at worst. I did feel sorry for him, even as I knew that he had to die. And Ethan took that a step further, observing that, in this movie "you feel every death; the deaths matter." On the other hand, the whole thing did sort of drag around the middle.
It's a fun watch, but not particularly memorable.Were I rating it now, I would have gone a half point to a full point lower.
Ratings
Me: 8
Bob-O: 9.1
Christina: 9.2
Dave: 9.5
Ethan: 8
Joe: 10
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