Honestly, it is my opinion that this film is horrible and has no redeeming values. The villain of the story has a whole gang of gay cowboys dressed in black. He tortures the hero by sticking him in a room with an armadillo, a fruit bat, and an iguana. I don't know how anyone can take this film seriously. Fans of the original Django beware. Watch Death Rides a Horse instead.
shareI totally agree. This movie was'nt interesting at all. I really liked the three other Spaghetti Westerns released by Blue Underground, but this one was a total waste of time. I have seen about 35 Spaghetti Westerns, and this one was the one I enjoyed the least. Milian is good, of course, but watch any other Western or Crime flick with him in it, and you'll have a far better time than you'll have watching this!
I agree aswell, this film was trash, has stupid things happening in it, like the scene mentioned, he is tied up and looking at a bat climbing up the wall and all of a sudden he starts talking (revealing where the gold is). Maybe he had a phobia of cute fury bats? The sex scene had no nudity! The bullets fired hit anything but their intended targets.
The only thing interesting about this film was the gay bandidos have a night of sexual pleasure (all implied nothing shown) with a good looking male youth, which the youth did not enjoy. It was a scene you just don't expect to see in a spaghetti western!
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I thought it was great. Definitely more interesting than most of the stuff being made today.
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I was really underwhelmed by it. Great opening half-hour where I liked the odd and grim nature of it, but it loses its way by getting terribly stodgy.
"Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies."
"The villain of the story has a whole gang of gay cowboys dressed in black. He tortures the hero by sticking him in a room with an armadillo, a fruit bat, and an iguana. I don't know how anyone can take this film seriously."
Ha!!! That scene left me utterly confused and weirded out. Why was the protagonist so scared of the small animals crawling on the floor? The agony on his face would lead one to think the animals were chewing on his balls, or something, but they weren't. I like this movie, but it's definitely not my favorite Spaghetti Western.
"Great opening half-hour where I liked the odd and grim nature of it, but it loses its way by getting terribly stodgy."
Agreed, the opening *WAS* strong and mega-trippy. I need to watch this again sometime soon; maybe i missed something.
"NO Spaghetti Western can compare with or even come close to the films of Sergio Leone."
I like Texas Adios and Keoma more than his Clint Eastwood movies.
"Cain and Abel will go to Heaven... if they can make it through Hell!" -Los Hijos Del Topo
Corbucci's THE MERCENARY and THE GREAT SILENCE are also better than the Leone/Eastwood Man with No Name movies, but ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST and especially DUCK YOU SUCKER are really upper echelon. Do they even count as spaghetti westerns if they're made with American money, though? There's a roughness of craft absent from those two epics that kind of disqualifies them, for me.
Anyway, DJANGO KILL is one my favorite entries in the genre. Completely balls out weird, and closer to Jodorowsky than Leone, Corbucci or Sollima. It's weirder than KEOMA even and that's saying something. Leone's stuff was very polished by comparison, but for me it's a standout spaghetti western along the lines of Fulci's equally strange FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE.
The torture scene with the animals seemed to want to imply through the editing that they were crawling on/clawing/eating him alive, but apparently it wasn't in their fx and/or animal wrangling budget to do it convincingly. Or, hell, maybe they were only on the floor of the cell and the Stranger had some kind of small animal phobia the gay cowboys were onto. I think the effect is sublimely bizarre because of the weird cutting. Milian is really freaking out in that scene and they're cutting back and forth between his gut wrenching and an armadillo just kind of chilling out. Classic.
Yes, the beginning was a normal Spaghetti Western - gold stealing, double-crossing, revenge. Than it changed to a horror with some yaoi elements... I felt I was in Poe's or Bierce's world. SOmeone here wrote it's like David Lynch made a western. I think it's correct. But Lynch is not my cup of tea...
My biggest problem is that the fake blood looks out totally laughable.
And WTF? The Hero does almost nothing. I expected a big shoot-out at the end, also: hero kills all the villains, takes the "mad" woman with himself and they ride into the sunset.
But Milian is great. And the photographing, too. Also, it worths watching if you don't expect a western. See it as a horror what's placed in a surreal land what looks like the West...
No wonder the gay cowboys raped the boy. He was a typical bishounen...
Sheesh... Certain whiners would do well, if instead of venting their frustration towards the film by starting a forum topic, they'd write a sensible review / comment about it. I know, this habit of laziness and / or desperate urge to get one's voice heard on this instant is more than common in IMDB, and this topic in this movie's forum is only one of the many, but I've been ticked because of this for a long time, and just can't resist the urge to open my mouth about it anymore. Still, I'm 100% sure that my ranting goes for the deaf ears. Oh, well...maybe I sleep better after this. Maybe world is a bit better place. Maybe I can sell my crap tomorrow as gold and be a rich man...
That said, I am somewhat horrified that anyone suggests that instead of this very different and surreal spaghetti western / horror hybrid, someone should rather see quite mediocre Death Rides a Horse that has little else to really SEE than settings and Lee Van Cleef. (It's not a bad effort, but so... very... standard.) This is not a perfect film, but at least it's different and not badly done at all. A matter of taste is whole other piece of cake.
Besides, we need to keep in mind that Django has no official sequels. Because Django was quite a hit especially in Germany, as a cash-out method every third (or so it seems) of Italian B-grade westerns were marketed at least in Germany by the names "Django this" and "Django that". In truth, there were no straight links with the original Django in any of them that I know of. The same goes with "Django Kill! ...If you live, shoot!": only distribution-made exploitation of the original movie.
And the final line: fans of narrow-mindedness, beware! Instead of listening to somebody who thinks he knows better than you, watch the film yourself and then make your own judgements!
"The horror... The horror."
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I don't know how anyone can take this film seriously.