Valid points, gentlemen - and for the ‘record’, I don’t actually mind if this qualifies or not … it’s just my take on it.
Hypothetically, if I were asked to describe the type of film this is to someone who knew nothing about it, then ‘Western’ would not be the first word that sprung to mind.
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A witchy-western? Could go either way of course but it looks plenty interesting to me. 
From what’s been said and the bits I have read about it, American gothic (Not horror) is the term I think of.
I spoke to Martin Koolhoven once, on a film festival, about nine or ten years ago, and he then had completely different plans for his western project. He wanted to do a comedy western, but wasn’t sure that was the best thing to do . He obviously changed his plans. I don’t think a comedy western would have been a good idea, but I must admit that I’m not very fond of the movie he eventually came up with. It’s a typical Dutch movie, a tale about religious fanatism and madness. Religious mania is the subject of many a classic novel in Dutch literature (Jan Wolkers and Maarten 't Hart both became famous for novels set within strict protestant contexts) and when watching Brimstone, I often had the feeling that Koolhoven was dealing with a few very bad personal memories and experiences. And yes, I think the whole thing would’ve worked better as a novel. I hardly ever had the idea that I was watching a ‘western’
Bad_Lieutenant started a thread for Brimstone as early as May 2009, when its title was supposed to be The Ugly – or maybe it was a completely different film altogether. In any case, Brimstone had a long gestation until it was released in 2016.
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Some details on an upcoming Netflix production
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This could be an interesting film: Stephen Johnson’s High Ground, an Australian Western from 2020, soon to be released by Koch Media on DVD and Blu-ray.
Yes I saw it at the Berlinale and wrote a mini review on nischenkino.de on it - it’s … alright. Adds nothing new to the genre and is pretty grim, but fans of depressing Aussie frontier dramas with their usual dose of racism, slaughter and jungle will like it 
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Could prove interesting, I’d be curious to see how Tom Hanks handles a Western
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Full trailer
More westerns
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Looks like fun
Looks great
this one too
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Both, “Old Henry,” and, “The Power of the Dog,” look good. “Old Henry” may be more to my taste though. And it’s nice to see Tim Blake Nelson in another Western, following, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
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Could be interesting. A historic figure who deserves the attention.
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Interesting. Another revenge western starring Nicolas Cage.
https://collider.com/nicolas-cage-the-old-way-western-movie/
Bass Reeves could be a good one. The guy producing it, Taylor Sheridan, wrote the modern day westerns Hell or High Water and Wind River, the latter of which he also directed. Those are both excellent movies though I’m not so high on his TV series Yellowstone. It is pretty popular though.
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Wow!!!
‘Old Henry’ looks so good…it reminded me of ‘The Assassination of Jesse James’.
Tim Blake Nelson (forever excellent) as Henry, looks exceptional in the part.
Anyone who knows their Wild West history, will know who Henry McCarty really was…