Anyone seen this?
Should it be listed in the SWDb?
I’ve seen a trailer, and heard bad reports … the trailer suggests it’s another cheapo hoping to cash in on recent western releases.
Personally, I wouldn’t categorize it as a SW - it’s just a cheap little semi amateur effort by Matellano, who is a film writer /critic, but judging by his dreadful horror flick ‘Vampyres’, is NO director.
yea but since when is quality a criteria for the SWDb 
I mean the director’s Italian and they shot it in Spain right? Ticks the most important boxes…
Victor Matellano is actually Spanish, but I take your point - Personally I see SWs as a 60s and 70s phenomenon … so the fact this was filmed in Spain by an international group, is irrelevant - I feel it shouldn’t be thrown in with ‘genuine’ SWs, as it gives it an unwarranted kudos.
and we aren’t, but the SWDb is already full of movies that fit a “broad” Eurowestern definion, and by some rogue group of people who initiated it, also Mexican Westerns, who at the most stylistically match the description 
Perhaps only films that actually get a legit cinema release should be included here ? 
These films never get past the festival circuit, the actors and crew aren’t paid - and I can only assume they are made as a way of lobbying professional producers into considering the makers as a worthwhile risk for future film development, but it’s more likely they’re just on an ego trip.
Obviously it’s your call, Sebastian 
I have long since bowed to mob rule 
I am but a Potemkin ruler
So far, I’m only a mob of one
One of the reasons I get a little irritated by these ‘nouveau’ SWs is, that when I first started researching the genre for myself, I kept finding info on the Emilio Estevez film ‘A Dollar for the Dead’, which used the tag, ‘A tribute to Sergio Leone’, obviously a clever marketing idea for the film’s exposure - No doubt Estevez thought he was paying homage, but although the film was shot in Almeria, it can never be regarded as a SW, even if it were a much better film than it actually is. Using the Godfather of the genre’s name is, to me, is a form of plagiarism, without actually breaking copyright law. By that tenuous association many people will have checked out this film, and I doubt Leone himself would have had anything positive to say about it. As he did say, “If I’m the father of the Spaghetti western, then I gave birth to a lot of bastards”
The German version will see some censorship
True.
Some of us has not…
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Parada en el infierno now has two pages in the database. We should delete one.
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Stop_Over_in_Hell
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Parada_en_el_infierno
It would also be a good idea to check whether a movie already has an entry in the database before creating a new page.
@jan.svabenicky will fix it later, but @Bad_Lieutenant go ahead and delete the duplicate right away if you want. Let’s carry over and info
Update: fixed
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Neo spaghetti western that, in the opening scene already, chops with the blunt axe. A man is beaten to a pulp, by a soldier, while his wife is raped by two other soldiers.
After the opening, however, the viewer is introduced to far too many characters and even more talk. Furthermore, the film treats the audience to terrible actors and actresses. Yet, the mess they have to utter is not their fault.
This paella western features a scumbag who likes to torture and maim people with a fishhook. Unfortunately, he is not the main character. This sadistic fact is given far too little attention, while some movie posters run along with it.
The film is, in fact, about a group of people, in the Wild West, being terrorized by soldiers. That should be reason enough for cinephilic joy, but unfortunately, above all, there is disappointment.
Not only are the actors and script below par. The amount of action also leaves much to be desired. This, while the music is also, appallingly, poor.
So is there nothing to justify 1½ out of five stars? Certainly there is. This b-western features torture, rape and murder.
Besides the rape, an old prick is crucified on a wheel and his hands get the Jesus treatment (this old fart also gets whipped in the face), a child is shot point blank, some unfortunates are sadistically executed, someone’s hand is crushed with a hammer and another’s head is shot off with a shotgun.
Despite the above, the film is dregs. The makers show that they have little knowledge of westerns. The film is terribly bad when nothing violent happens. Unfortunately, this is the case the vast majority of the running time.
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I’ve seen this garbage and a couple of other Matellano ‘films’ … they’re simply vanity projects from a former film critic, (and how adept was he in that line, who knows, who cares.) who has mysteriously been able to cobble together enough people (working without a fee ) to make this mess … These type of efforts serve no purpose - Perhaps the persons volunteering their services think that they can’t afford to miss the opportunity, just on the wildest off chance that this turns out to be the next Sergio Leone … not in a zillion years, Senor Victor !
PS: Enzo G Castellari makes an appearance … why ???
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