Kid Vengeance (Joseph Manduke, 1977)

[Mickey13]

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@Mickey13

Some of the worst shootouts, acting, editing, camerawork and directing I have seen in a spaghetti western and on top of the aforementioned, you get another helping of Leif Garrett’s cutesy theatrics, a subpar soundtrack, a preposterously plodding storyline as well as Lee Van Cleef looking like some 1970s hippie butt pirate. Some television productions of the era look superior to the kind of mortifying, slipshod appearance this endeavor exhibits and it is unbelievable how worthless the entire thing feels. God’s Gun was no grand masterpiece and you can tear it down all you want, but as bad as that was, it still had its share of attractions, did not look as dilapidated and hopeless and did not feel like a consummate catastrophe all things considered.

Kid Vengeance, on the other hand, manifests all the hallmarks of a grindhouse feature film as well as turgidity of an old-fashioned western along with its ensuant millstone of grandiloquence, which makes for the worst possible combination. All the additional brutality displayed in the sequent killings gets effectively stultified and nullified by the atrocious rendition on account of which it is occasionally difficult to tell what is going on. Very embarrassing and beyond awful, getting through this thing was a legitimately painful experience, it was a real challenge not to zone out completely whilst watching this somnolent wreck. Perhaps it’s just that the Spagvember fatigue is getting to me; be that as it may, I didn’t like it one bit, no sirree.