SPAGVEMBERFEST 2016 - A FISTFUL OF REAPPRAISALS: DAY 29
My penultimate SpagvemberFest movie is another of those I’ve seen but about which I remember practically nothing: It’s Dead Men Ride (Florio, 1971), and all I can remember is not being quite as impressed as I’d hoped I was going to be. Maybe this time.
Spagvemberfest 2016 Number 29
Django, The Last Killer
The penultimate film of this year’s Spagvemberfest it’s more Ghidra which of course cannot be a bad thing. Always liked this film despite it’s obvious flaws and this viewing confirmed that status. I like George Eastman despite his being an unfeasibly tall Mexican paisano, I like the gentle the theme music but find the incidental music jarring and clumsy, I like the story but although it has been done to death and could most certainly be fleshed out and developed more here. But what I like without reserve is Ghidra who improves everything whenever he is on screen. So not a classic but still a film I enjoy whenever I see it.
This spagfest has been a genuine joy this year and I haven’t found it difficult to keep up either which is somewhat amazing. My only struggle will be what to choose for tonight’s finale. A couple of contenders but the choice will probably be influenced most heavily by which members of the family are likely to be watching with me. Whipping of semi clad females will need to be kept to an absolute minimum I suspect.
Uccidi Django … uccidi per primo!
Kill Django, Tequila, or whatever the movie was called God only knows where and when … this must be one of the most chaotic productions in the history of the genre. Hardly any coherence, an American villain who turns out to be a Mexican bandido (in the days when he was wearing a wig) and a Mexican samurai who is played by a China man and is living in a grotto
At least you can’t say you’ve heard all these things a thousand times before
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Kill_Django_…Kill_First!(Tequila)_Review
In the meantime, while writing the review of Uccidi Django … I rewatched
that late Corbucci western that often doesn’t feel like a western at all (but I wouldn’t know what it does feel like instead). I don’t know what to think of it either. Watched it before and even wrote a review of it, but I don’t really remember what my ideas about it were back then.
So that was that. La grande finale 30. El Puro
And what a great film this is.
Watched the Cult Action DVD for the first time. Agree with authepex’ comment: the extra 10 minutes do add a bit of depth and atmosphere. Maybe even a little more than that. And of course, Berti in the changeroom:
SPAGVEMBERFEST 2016 - A FISTFUL OF REAPPRAISALS: DAY 30
Wow, over already! Even having failed on a couple of days, this year’s SpagvemberFest feels like it’s flown past. And tonight, @MazzyStar and I are getting a pizza in and watching the last Spag of the month together: Antonio Margheriti’s Goth 'em Up And God Said to Cain (1969), all bells, pipe organs and Hammer Horror, with a rare “Good Guy” turn from Krazy Klaus Kinski just to add to the weirdness.
I’m going to miss the Spagness tomorrow; maybe I’ll just watch a few more until I’m truly “spent” (oo-er, missus!).
MY SPAGVEMBERFEST 2016
Nov 1: Shango (Mulargia, 1970)
Nov 2: One After Another (Nostro, 1968)
Nov 3: Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows (Fidani, 1970)
Nov 4: Garringo (Marchent, 1969)
Nov 5: I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death (Carnimeo, 1969)
Nov 6: A Stranger in Town (Vanzi, 1966)
Nov 7: Taste of Vengeance (Siciliano, 1968)
Nov 8: Long Days of Vengeance (Vancini, 1966)
Nov 9: Man, Pride & Vengeance (Bazzoni, 1967)
Nov 10: Vengeance (Margheriti, 1968)
Nov 11: God’s Gun (Parolini, 1976)
Nov 12: Hallelujah For Django (Lucidi, 1967)
Nov 13: Bandidos (Dallamano, 1967)
Nov 14: May God Forgive You… But I Won’t (Musolino, 1968)
Nov 15: My Name is Pecos (Lucidi, 1966)
Nov 16: Django the Bastard (Garrone, 1969)
Nov 17: Go With God, Gringo (Mulargia, 1966)
Nov 18: The Stranger Returns (Vanzi, 1967)
Nov 19: Sabata (Parolini, 1969)
Nov 20: Adios Sabata (Parolini, 1970)
Nov 21: Taste of Death (Merolle, 1968)
Nov 22: Texas, Adios (Baldi, 1966)
Nov 23: Four of the Apocalypse (Fulci, 1975)
Nov 24: The Deserter (Kennedy, 1970)
Nov 25: Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (Castellari, 1968)
Nov 26: A Gun For 100 Graves (Lenzi, 1968)
Nov 27: God Forgives… I Don’t! (Colizzi, 1967)
Nov 28: Cut-Throats Nine (Marchent, 1971)
Nov 29: Dead Men Ride (Florio, 1971)
Nov 30: And God Said to Cain (Margheriti, 1969)
Summary of my SpagvemberFest 2016
Spagvemberfest 2016 Number 30
Killer Kid
As it turned out I chose Killer Kid for the final entry of the month because Fernando Sancho is a popular character with the family but I wound up watching it mostly on my own anyway. Always been a favourite of mine and this one gets better for me if anything with every viewing. Arguably the best and still most typical work of both Sancho and Steffen and their contrasting styles of scenery chewing and botox inflected non expression compliment each other perfectly. Ken Wood makes a great villain in uniform and Savona’s direction is actually very good without being overly flashy.
For me this is a great example of just what can be achieved with a minimal budget, a quarry, some fake cactus and occasional access to a backlot Mexican village. This has always been in my alternative top 20 but, for sheer pleasure’s sake and it’s perennial re-watchability it might even challenge for a place at the foot of my actual Top 20 when I re-do it for Christmas. Either way a very enjoyable way to end an extremely enjoyable month.
And, amazingly, I not only kept my marriage intact but didn’t miss a day. So here is my full list of 30 viewed this Spagvemberfest:
If You Meet Sartana Pray for your Death
Once Upon a Time in the West
Today it’s me…Tomorrow You
I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death
The Price of Power
The Hellbenders
Have a Good Funeral My Friend…Sartana Will Pay
Death Sentence
Light the Fuse, Sartana is coming
California
One after Another
My Name is Pecos
Hole in the Forehead
A Fistful of Dynamite
The Specialists
Fort Yuma Gold
Adios Sabata!
Massacre Time
Pistoleros
Navajo Joe
Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead
Mannaja
Yankee
Keoma
Four of the Apocalypse
The Hills Run Red
Vengeance is Mine
They Call Him Cemetery
Django, the Last Killer
Killer Kid
But what to do now? I feel like a little lost lamb, ambling without purpose through life. Why bother getting up in the morning? Why bother washing? Getting dressed? What’s the point of anything anymore?
But wait…December…that sounds a bit like Steffember…I think I feel a purpose coming back…now just how to spin it to the wife in a positive light. “Here Darling, remember how much we both enjoyed Killer Kid…”
These are my 30 films ranked:
El Puro (8)
The Bounty Killer (8)
Sonora (8)
California (8)
The Mercenary (8)
I Want Him Dead (8)
Keoma (7)
10.000 Dollars for a Massacre (7)
Day of Anger (7)
Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (7)
The Long Days of Vengeance (7)
Hate Is My God (7)
God Forgives … I don’t (7)
Why Go on Killing? (7)
Death Rides a Horse (7)
Bandidos (7)
A Pistol for Ringo (7)
Death Sentence (6)
The Return of Ringo (6)
Massacre Time (6)
Hate for Hate (6)
One Hundred Thousand Dollars Per Killing (6)
Navajo Joe (6)
My Name Is Pecos (6)
No Room to Die (6)
Don’t Wait, Django… Shoot! (6)
Johnny Yuma (6)
Today It’s Me… Tomorrow It’s You! (6)
Shoot the Living, pray for the Dead (6)
Night of the Serpent (6)
So 10.000 Dollars for a Massacre and Keoma will give way to Sonora and Run Man Run in my top 20. There will also be some replacements in my alternative 20, as Night of the Serpent, One Hundred Thousand Dollars Per Killing and Massacre Time will not hold their ground.
If you post your new Alternative Top 20 in that thread I will adjust my stats accordingly. If you could just let me know what is out as well as what comes in that will be a big help for me.
I usually update the list on the DB around Christmas every year.
December doesn’t sound a bit like Steffember, you are just kidding yourself!
I will do, need to rewatch one more film.
It’s practically identical and I won’t hear otherwise!
Steffember! Comes just before Leoneuary.
Which I think you’ll find is followed by Fidaniuary
SPAGVEMBERFEST 2016
Compandres…
Reading all of your posts re: the magnificent ‘Spag. West’ viewing, I’d say you all had a good time…blimmin’ marvellous, in fact!
Personally. it has been an honour, and a privilege, to read all of the reviews posted by ‘Spag’ members who have joined in with this yearly romp through the ‘Good, The Bad, & the Ugly’ of the genre that we, on the ‘SWDB’ are so enthused by.
Many of the members have spoken of ‘Spags’ that I’ve never even heard of…which has the inspired me to hunt them down…
If it were not for the fact that I begin my very own ‘CHRISTNOVDECFEST’ (watching favourites of every genre, and all-time favourite films), then I would have gladly joined everyone else.
However…Congratulations to everyone who did participate in SPAGVEMBERFEST 2016.
Indeed. And a “Have a Good Funeral My Teutonic Friend… Last Caress Will Pay” to our town marshal Big Sebastian who swerved SpagvemberFest and who, as a result, has a posse of black-clad homoerotic sadists (well, me at least) chasing him down. This is going to chafe us both, amigo.!
Coincidence that I re-watched most of Steffen’s films over last month
A Few Dollars For Django 6.5/10
Bury Them Deep 8
Two Faces of the Dollar 4
A Man Called Django/W Django 9.5
Django the Bastard 7.5
Long Cavalcade of Vengeance 6
Why Go On Killing? 6.5
Two Pistols and a Coward 5
Coffin for the Sheriff 6.5
Dallas/10 Killers Come From Afar 3
Last Tomahawk 5
Arizona Colt Returns 9
Dead Men Don’t Count 8.5
A Stranger in Paso Bravo 7
Too Much Gold for One Gringo 8.5
Two Crosses at Danger Pass 8.5
Cjamango 8
A Man Called Amen 4
Adiós, Sabata 9 (Blu-ray)
Sabata 8 (Blu-ray)
Return of Sabata 5 (Blu-ray)
May God Forgive You… But I Won’t 8
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone 7.5 (Perfect until Chuck betrays them)
Finger on the Trigger 4
In a Colt’s Shadow 7
The Ugly Ones 9.5 (Wild East disc is the best sounding and looking i’ve seen, still not amazing)
Tepepa 9.5
Sonny & Jed 6
Arriva Sabata 7
And God Said to Cain 9
Only 5 days to go amigos.
Who’s up for Spagvemberfest again this year?
I will try. Can you sum up the rules of the game once more for the (re)new comers?
