I saw a thread that asked for your favorite sub genre of SW & saw that one of the choices was Horror SW. What would you experts suggest for titles that fell in that category?
The closest Iāve seen to a horror SW is Django the Bastard. But not much closer. Howard Hughes described Night of the Serpent as a Gothic Horror Spaghetti which is wrongā¦ for Hughes.
i havenāt seen any SWs Iād label in a horror subgenreā¦ i dont think the subgenre exists personally
The Horror exists ā¦when you watch a few crap Spaghetti westerns one after each other.
the horrorā¦the horrorā¦
hahahā¦ Youāve got me thereā¦
I thing a classic horror SW is And God said to Cain.
It is set in a dark tornado night. Kinski uses an old underground indian cemetery to hide from his enemies. Out of this cemetery he appears like a ghost and kills the baddies.
There really arenāt any horror SWās. Some SWās might contain limited elements of a horror film such as the aformentioned DJango the Bastard, And god said to cain, and Django Kill etc, but none of them are true horror movies.
I agree. Gothic spaghetti westerns wouldāve been a better category. Then these films would fit nicely.
The spaghetti that probably comes closest to being horror is Cut-Throats Nine due to itās downright nastiness & handful of gore scenes, but itās still not a horror film.
What I meant with Horror SW was movies like Cut Throats Nine, Django Kill (because of the gore), And God Said to Cain, Django the Bastard etc.
Ok Idiot( user,not you guys :D)
If you are looking for suggestions on SW that take cues from horror, youāve gotā¦
And God Said to Cain
Vengeance
Mannaja
Cut Throats Nine
Django the Bastard
Django Kill
this is all that comes to my immediate mind.
Thank you. I was looking for that horror atmosphere & not the horror-ble. 
My pleasure. This is one of my favorite subgenres. And Iām about 2/3 done with an article on the Gothic Spaghetti Westerns.
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I think its funny that āGothicā SWs like Mannaja have much of that feel only by accidentā¦ like the use of the fog not because thatās what they were going for, but because they had to cover up the sets and thatās how they did itā¦ I often wonder what Mannaja would of been like if it had been made earlier, when the western sets were still available. I like Mannaja a lot, but mainly because of how it looksā¦ if it didnāt have this element, then Iām not sure Iād like it all that much
Just watched it & yes, I would say it qualifies. Fog is cheap & itās interesting to know thatās why they used it. Even beyond that, the opening scene is very āstalker/slasherā, he kills with axe not gun, villain in black cape, dogs barking. I like it!
Iāve heard somewhere that they used the fog to hide the awful western town!
yea from what Iāve gathered, a lot of the westerns that have these looks are just kind of circumstantialā¦ the directorās werenāt necessarily going for the look, it just so happened that the sets were old and run down which happened to be perfect for a ghost town, or they had to use fog like mannaja, and the mud, etcā¦
Four of the Apocalypse uses fog atthe ghost town. ThoughI doubt to hide the decay because it is a ghost town and is supposed to decay ( in movies.) But I think Fulci was trying for a horror feel.
I noticed Mannajadoesnāt seen to use fog all the time in the town.
Thereās good horror scene in one Peter Lee Lawrence film (I think it was A Gun for One Hundred Graves or Clumsy Hands) where they go to ghost town where only people living are zombie-like people infected with plague.
Thatās Clumsy Hands.
100 Graves has this scene with the escaped convicts of the mad house. And Eduardo Fajardo looks also like a zombie when he suddenly reappears.
But the real horror in both was maybe PLLās acting.
(sorry, couldnāt avoid this unfair remark)