Yes Silver, I guess that is one thing about buying the WE DVDs, they are an investment which can by recouped if one is patient.
Chris (and everyone) is it just me or do many SWs seem to have great opening scenes, and often very memorable conclusions with dull cookie cutter movies stuck in between? It’s as if the minor directors were cranking them out so fast they didn’t think beyond the opening before they started filming.
this is one weird spaghetti western that i can’t say i liked that much. put me in mind of another weird SW " Arde Baby Arde" but i liked Matalo better.As other posters have said it is full of irritating moments,swirling cameras, incoherency, camera veering away during action scenes. not much of a story, long periods of silence, but it also has a few interesting moments, and it does have Claudia Gravy who is easy on the eye. Odd but strangely compelling but not my sort of SW really. 4/10
Have you seen Kill The Wickeds mwan? It’s the same story, but far more traditionally a sw - and much better for it, imo.
no i haven’t Rod. you have a few ciders tonight, well deserved.
I have seen the film yesterday (thanks to a forum member)
It was one of the last known films that I have not seen yet.
And the film is very good.
The beginning is terrific and one of the best of the genre. Fantastic camera work. The costumes and hairstyles of the actors remember like the hippie era. Also some parts of the music.
And then in the ghost town. There is a constant threat, from people who are not visible. Extraordinary work. In some parts a little weak, but all in all a first class work.
My rating 8 / 10. Maybe even 9 / 10
But the beginning is even 10 / 10. Only a few films such as “A Stranger in Town” has a better start. At least for me.
Next weekend, I look at the original “Kill The Wickeds”. I’m curious 
I’ve seen this movie time ago. Is too slow and many boring, the only good thing is the beautiful ghost town. Lou Castel have not the right face for a western movie… neither in “Requiescant” IMO. In the italian version is dubbed by himself with a strange australian accent. Not good.
Regarding the opinion about the movie, I can not agree with you.
But I agree with you, Mr. Castel not fit into a IW.
I don’t know what to think of this one. I found myself thinking “this is really cool,” then “what is this crap?” ??? :
A second viewing always helps with this one. I had the same thoughts initially. But now it’s in my top 5 (or ist it 10?)
I put this film on this evening while I was cooking & doing other things, but didn’t end up watching it much. I’ve tried to watch this a couple of times, but can’t get into it. There’s not enough dialogue to watch while doing other stuff, as I did tonight & quite often do with westerns, & not enough going on in it for the film to hold my attention if I sit down to watch it properly. I didn’t enjoy the dubbing, & might have enjoyed it more in Italian with subtitles. None of the characters seem very interesting or memorable. Mostly it seems like a 90-minute music video, without enough good action or good music to sustain it. There is some fairly good SW music in a few places, & I quite like the occasional use of eerie echoing noises, but there’s a lot of lacklustre psychedelic rock, which doesn’t fit well into a SW & certainly hasn’t aged well.
Starts interesting, then the movie drowns itself with it’s own style. Then it tries to become a regular genre movie, but while still being an experimental affair, full of fancy camera tricks and what not. By the time the boomerangs started to fly i couldn’t care much about the movie. That said, very cool soundtrack.
I LOVE this film, i first saw it in the early 90s on video, to me this features some of the flashiest direction outside of Leone or Argento. The 360 degree pan , intercut with flash edits (you can imagine Canevari, dressed in Dennis Hopper, “Last Movie” clothes, tripping off his head on acid giving instructions, while the actors looked at each other in disbelief…) I bet that dust devil whirlwind was a lucky accident that the cameraman caught… “Kill the Wickeds” is a good film, with the same plot (except for the boomerangs), that song “Gold” starts getting on my nerves, after the 6th or 7th time it comes on… I think the soundtrack is typical 70s Heavy Rock, years later he made a film called “The Gestapos Last Orgy”, that was banned in the U.K as a “video nasty” (quite a stylish film despite its sleazy subject matter, i think he ended up doing porno… Still this was his “finest hour”) Claudia Gravy was a lovely looking actress, who seemed to only appear in the lowest budget Euro-films, she was in a Leopoldo Savona It. sex/horror film called “Demons Sexual”(1972), with Mark Damon…(fan-sub ed. is out there…)
I love this movie because it’s so strange (& Claudia Gravy is hot). I love to get R1 release in English.
Hello,i am new learner here,hope to learn more from you,from this forum…
After some reading in the database and here at the forum I decided to give it a try. The star promised but unfortunately I have to say that the weirdness of it all is not my cup of tea. I’m not an expert on boomerangs and neither is Lou Castel, that’s for sure. Will have to watch it again within some months, perhaps I’ll change my opinion then.
Matalo was a very good SW movie the opening scene was one of the best i loved the camera work leading up to Bart about to be hung. The movie was very surreal and had very dark moments like them being cruel to the old Benson woman and the torturing and tormenting of the boomerang slinging hero. The ghost town look added a bit of horror feeling to it. It was obvious Bart was playing dead and the one stalking and doing his own tormenting amongst his friends. Overall the music and acting were great as well as the story being different from most SW. I found it very different and exciting. The only thing, I disliked was the spinning of the camera at the end it was too long and pointless. I thought (Bart)Corrado Pani was terrific for his first and only SW too bad he wasn’t in any others.
I liked some of the atmosphere in this one, and the music helped a lot. The first 40 minutes or so had me thinking this was gonna become one of my favorites but then it starts getting more and more boring until I couldn’t wait for it to finish. And once it did, it did it in a very unimpressive way. I often got the feeling that it was trying too hard to be weird and forgot to be good. It’s certainly not one of the worst I’ve seen, but I don’t think I’ll be rewatching it any time soon.
I appreciate strange spaghettis and I’d like to see this one, but it seems to be a bit too strange. Boomerangs?!
Hope it’ll be good and not too bizarre to me. 
i liked the ending - great scene with those boomerangs
story´s simple with a “punch line” that can be considered as a weakness or as a forte - ít´s just highly predictable - nevertheless for me it was a forte
great style, actors, music, cinematography, ideas - for me almost TOP 20 material - after second watch maybe it will enter TOP 20 or just will sink deeper