Early day 15:
Arriva Sabata with PLL, Steffen and Fajardo is a good one too and PLL plays kind of a shady character there.
I think that’ll be my day 15 watch. Grjingo has a decent looking version up on YouTube
Day 15: ‘Arriva Sabata’ (1970) aka ‘Sabata the Killer’
How’s that for timing? … Just finished watching this one, and I’d recommend it even to non - Steff fans … PLL is very engaging, but it’s Eduardo Fajardo who steals the show hands down - He’s a despicable rogue, but very likable and he gets some killer lines which really did make me laugh. Thoroughly enjoyable! 7/10
Day 14: Quintana: Dead or Alive (1969). I was excited to watch this one, since I find spag west’s with snazzy, Latinesque-sounding names (e.g. Durango, Chino) intriguing. I was disappointing and sloppy. The characters were one-dimensional and uninteresting. I give it 2/10.
SPAGVEMBERFEST DAY 14
SPAGVEMBERFEST DAY 15
Wasn’t able to fit one in yesterday so I’m going for the double-bill this evening, starting with The Return of Ringo (Tessari, 1965) - the movie I should’ve watched yesterday - followed straight up by diving back into my Vengeance Trails box for the Gothic-flavoured And God Said to Cain (Margheriti, 1970); two very different takes on the tale of a man returning to his fold after an extended absence in order to take names and kick ballbags. In Ringo, angel-faced Giuliano Gemma is a presumed-dead returning civil war vet finding his town and family overrun by Mexican bandits; in Cain, hobbit-faced Klaus Kinski has just completed ten years of hard time he shouldn’t have done on behalf of his mate, who has since taken over their town, and who needs some payback lobbed his way. Ooh, it’s going to be a veritable marathon of Monday night vengeance! Drag 'em, boys!
And that’ll put me halfway through SpagvemberFest 2021. Halfway through, already?? Bloody hell! Where’s it going?
Day 15: And God Said to Cain (1970)
So, I’ve reached the fourth and final disc in the Vengeance Trails boxset and this could be my favourite. Kinski’s subdued performance is superb as is Margheriti’s atmospheric direction. 8/10
Love and god said to Cain, have the Vengeance trails box set from Arrow video., This is really worth the money and then some. The picture is absolutely outstanding. Do you have the arrow copy?
Day 15, will be watching Fury of the Apaches, or just APACHE FURY. Early one, release date is 10 /1/1964. Frank Brana is in it and George martin, So I’m digging it already, First time watching this one. Nice to see something good and fresh.
Day 15
Today’s movies - The Three Musketeers of the West (1973)
One of the most ridiculous of the trinity-inspired comedies, this wasn’t as painful as I had expected it to be. Yes it is bad but it’s just so outlandish that I did get a kick out of some parts. The movie is also very random, becoming a martial arts film and then going into Zapata western territory. Not recommended but like all spaghetti westerns, spaghetti addicts will check it out since it exists.
Also, - I Want Him Dead (1968)
I rewatched this great revenge western as well and I think I liked it even better than the first time I watched it. It’s a gritty action packed film with some creative camerawork, fantastic moody music and a steely-eyed Craig Hill out for blood. This one doesn’t try to reinvent the genre but still creates one hell of a western, recommended to die-hard fans (who probably have already seen it) and newcomers alike.
Yep, I have the box set. It’s well worth the money as the transfers are spot on crystal clear.
Yes sir, thought so. Love arrow .hope they continue to keep doing spaghetti westerns. Would be nice to see them give A taste of death in a presentation. A Taste of Death really deserves some loving.
Day 15
Continuing on with the Vengeance Trails set, today’s watch was Lucio Fulci’s Massacre Time. This is a decent enough spag pairing Franco Nero and George Hilton but it is the latter that steals the show here. I know many think that Hilton’s performance is a bit over the top but I love it. The story is good but Fulci’s direction produces some truly memorable scenes. As with the two prior movies from the set I have watched thus far, this is another truly impressive Arrow release.
Spagvemberfest 2021
Day 14
Django & Sartana are here…It’s The End (Fidani / 1970)
Definitely a case of the poster (and title) being better than the actual film. Unless of course what you really love is constant back and forth horse riding, interminable card games, pointless fistfights and Simone Blondell looking meaningfully from one direction to the other. Oh, and cardboard cacti, lots of cardboard cacti. And the same stuntmen being shot at different stages of the film, all of whom perform outlandish leaping pirouettes as they die. Actually, what am I talking about, it’s sounds great doesn’t it? It’s a bloody masterpiece!
Spagvemberfest 2021 Day 15: TWO CROSSES AT DANGER PASS (1967)
Here’s another second feature on a Wild East Productions double feature DVD that I somehow never got around to watching until now. I also came in expecting nothing and was pleasantly surprised. This is a good one.
Peter Martell pours on the intensity as a man out to revenge the deaths of his parents and the abduction of his sister 15 years earlier. He was adopted by a Quaker family after the incident and his now brother Mark shadows him, hoping to convince him not to kill. This is one of those “what price revenge?” type plots, and it’s fascinating how close to madness Martell’s lust for blood leads him. Very capably and briskly directed by Rafael Romero Marchent, it’s tense and action packed for the most part, with psychological depth and lots of family disfunction. It only stops dead a couple times for some lame songs from a saloon girl. It has more of an American western look, but plenty of dark spaghetti attitude, and two very nasty father & son whip-wielding villains. Not great, but suprisingly involving and watchable. 7/10.
That poster is awesome. Watched that one not too long ago and enjoyed fidani land, guilty of pulling it off the shelf often, lol … and The federal man.
I am now lagging behind, and I don’t think I will be able to catch up. I hope to get a few more in before the weekend but then I will likely have to throw in the towel and watch the rest of my homework stack during Deucember 
My No. 13 is from a brand new Explosive Media BluRay…
Alive or Preferrably Dead (Vivo o, prefiribilmente, mori). This is a lot better than one would expect, it’s just not all that funny, and it’s a tad too long. But the chemistry is right, the craftsmanship is solid, the story manages to entertain and the slapstick is kept to a level where it doesn’t get quite as annoying and ridiculous as other films of this kind have. The BluRay looks pretty good and has plenty of language options. 2.5/5
I meant to put this up yesterday, ran outta time. Anywho, my second week! I have art for y’all 
(I also found out after the fact that El Condor is US Western shot in Spain, but Luke was already in my art, and I had already given it a score… soooo, sorry about that. Um… 7/10. Loved Jaroo. 
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My opinions still contain spoilers so I’ll hide them.
8. A Pistol For Ringo - 5/10
This movie was “meh” for me. Pacing was hit or miss a lot, dialogue was The Lone Ranger levels of overbearing, Ringo is an okay protagonist (cool to see Giuliano Gemma!), the villain was too albeit boar-ish at times - for lack of a better term. The rest of the characters I forgot about, like Dolores (so I ain’t felt nothing when she died) and the sheriff. Still, the score is very nice and I did like how they took their time trying to reel us in in the beginning.
9. Sabata - 5/10
Umpteenth rewatch for me because I been tryna figure out why I don’t like this movie that much. I applaud the movie for its creativity and innovation, the dialogue can be nice, and Stengel’s leitmotif is very memorable, if not more memorable than Sabata’s (for me), but everything else leaves me sour, including the side characters (Carrincha especially), the monotonous zooms, and even Sabata himself! The villains couldn’t match up to him, not even Stengel at times, and it was cool at first, but then it got old. I understand they were trying to be James Bond-ish, but it comes off real “Larry Stu” instead, especially with Carrincha yelling 'bout how cool he is all the time… idk, I ain’t like it
10. A Noose Is Waiting For You, Trinity - 3/10
Not great. I liked the main suite well enough, and some quick-paced scenes were clever, but the quick scenes were very few and very far between. The characters felt like planks for me (and on character, the eldest boy, valid in his feelings toward Trinity, switched up at the very end? Guess the slap he got rewired his brain). The editing is dizzying. I got pissed a few times with this one. Almost DNF’d it. XD
11. Ace High - 7/10
I thought this one had a lot going for it in terms of cast, score, and visuals! I liked the cinematography here a lot because it felt Leone but it also felt a little more comfortable and intimate, less flashy? Something like that. Anyway, the pacing was okay, little slow at worst. I think Cacopoulous is to blame for the laggy pacing (him and all his monologues), and it sucks because if those monologues were cut some, I think that would’ve helped the movie. Only two times he monologued was cool: when he was talking to Hutch, and when he was tryna make the guards go to sleep. Speaking of, the humor was okay, I laughed sometimes. That’s what I can say about this whole movie: it was okay.
12. A Fistful Of Dollars - 8/10
A re-watch, and just as good as I remembered! I particularly liked how failure was approached in this movie, and (after Sabata; all the diss, sorry) it was refreshing to see the protagonist fuck up - especially when it’s someone like Clint, you know? I also liked how the protagonist treated the lady with the family; he very clearly was crushing on her, but once he realized what kind of situation she was in, he didn’t push himself on her like Rojo and decided to help her out. I thought that alone showed a lot of love. 
14th - If you meet sartana pray for your death
I appreciate the whole Sartana lore, but I was always inclined towards more adventurous spaghs than these intricate james bondish super smooth nonstop doublecrossing absurdly high bodycount bullet parades - with that said, I still enjoy them, but you probably won’t find them in my Top 20. 8/10
I’ll try to turn this spagvember into a sartana marathon, because I remember jackshit about all those movies, and since last spagvember I completed PLL’s spaghetti filmography I would like to do the same with Robert Woods’ westerns, I think I haven’t seen only two or three - manageable.
