when will indie horror filmmakers learn that literally nobody will ever care as much about their dumb characters as they will about their cool premise.
"hey let's make a horror western about cowboys vs witches."
"that sounds cool ok let's plot it out. fifty minutes of 'establishing characters' (you know, talking), then five minutes of cowboys vs witches, then thirty more minutes of talking"
"yeah i cant see anything wrong with that"
like, how do you look at a script like this and not think 'maybe we should have more cowboys fighting witches'. i just don't get it. i don't care about your characters. they're lame. i will never care about them. it's an indie horror movie. you're not going to write characters that are good. you're just not. stop trying to make the emotions the core of the movie. make it the witches. please.

Period piece From Dusk till Dawn western riff was just engaging enough with a decent setup and features solid gore, plenty of burnt witch demon ceiling crawlers, and a cast of character actors that glued it all together as best it could—Special shout out to Bill Sage, Pat Healy, and a favorite of mine, Stan Shaw... the extra half star is for them.

Love seeing Lansdale attached to this in some way, but sadly I don’t see myself revisiting it.

This is a case of a film with a brilliant concept executed in an underwhelming manner. As a Western/horror mashup, the horror aspects are handled in a much more effective way, and there's a definite sinister atmosphere in the last act. Unfortunately it takes too long to kick off and the Western aspects, the costumes and settings are so obviously cheap and fake that it really takes you out of the moment

I was watching this yesterday but then had to switch it off for the volleyball (Sultanlar Ligi Play Off Match 2 Fenerbahce Medicana 1-3 VakifBank btw) so put it on again when I got home from work just now. The set up in the first 30/40 minutes was pretty good, and then it all kicked off for a minute or two but then it got a bit boring and continued like that until the end.

This movie wants to be From Dusk til Dawn more than I want to be Robert Pattinson.

HORRORx52: 10/52
50. A film screened as part of Soho Horror Festival 2020

The horror design elements are decent, but the Western component, which is all you get for the first 50 minutes of this wreck, is horribly unconvincing and amateurish. The early town scenes look like a high school stage production. Poorly written with a story and characters that failed to generate any bit of interest from me.

From Red Dead Dusk Till Red Dead Dawn

Very low effort, cheap horror western which doesn’t satisfy in any way, and I’m usually a huge sucker for this underrepresented horror sub-genre.

Just watch „Bone Tomahawk“ (or “The Burrowers“ or “The Wind”) again I’d say, don’t bother with this one.

Slightly more along the lines of what I wanted the remake of The Witches to be like - instead of that CGI bollocks Zemeckis shat out - but still I found this to be a real slog that was only occasionally interrupted by terrific practical effects and an overall great cast.