Bezenby Well, it all starts off like your average Spaghetti Western. A half-breed Mexican (Milian) is double crossed for his share in a gold heist and is left for dead, but that's about where things stopped being normal. You could shrug off the weirdo visuals of Milian's flashback to being double crossed, but once the bad guys enter the town known as 'The Unhappy Place', things get real weird.Think of Royston Vasey. I'm not going to spoil things for anyone, but the vision of a crippled hedgehog is just the tip of the iceberg here. These bad guys are in real trouble as the citizens of the town notice these guys are wanted, and also notice they have a huge amount of gold.Milian, meanwhile, has been brought back to health by two Indians who think he has been to the land of the dead. They hang around with him hoping to learn of the afterlife, giving him a load of gold bullets to kill his enemies with. He gets into town just in time to face off with the lead bad guy, the others having been slaughtered by the town's populace.We now have to decide who is most evil character here, as there are plenty. Two of the town's prominent citizens has seized the gold for themselves: Templar, local bar man with unmarried lover (who gets turned on by loads of gold) and his son Evan, who is a bit psycho with his stepmother, then there's Alderman, a minister (maybe), who keeps his wife caged up in her room (although she keeps signalling to Milian). There's also Sorrow, a gangster type who lives outside of town and has an army of gay cowboys at his command (I'm not making that up).That's a lot of characters, and Milian's Stranger sometimes acts just as an observer to everyone else, but by having a lot more augmented characters we do get a bit more scope to what's happening on screen, and it also gives director Questi a lot more to work with (including the alcoholic parrot! Nearly forgot about that). Questi also manages to work in a lot of what I would call 'Video Nasty' gore way ahead of its time (and tellingly this footage lapses into the Italian language, indicating the gore was cut for English speaking nations).This is a great film that shows you how easy it is to escape the clutches of a normal Spaghetti Western plot and mess around with all the formatting. It's also really violent too - you wouldn't wish the fates of some of these bad guys on anyone - some really weird deaths here.I should mention Tomas Milian here seeing he died just about a month ago - He's like an old school Tom Hardy - small, loud, manic, moody, and doesn't mind getting covered from head to toe in filth. He's a great actor who will appear often in the seventies lists here, but strangely not so much the eighties.I can't wait to watch Guilio Questi's take on the giallo - It's called Death Laid An Egg and is set on an experimental chicken farm!

JasparLamarCrabb A legendarily violent spaghetti western that lives up to its reputation. Director Giulio Questi throws a lot out there: a scalping; a group lynching; grave robbing; a crucification. Tomas Milian is a stranger who, along with some com-padres, is left for dead after heisting some gold. He follows his betrayers into a town called The Unhappy Place and mayhem ensues. Milian gets his revenge and then some. The locals are half mad religious fanatics or money hungry sleazes, all after the stolen gold. Questi's direction is so tightly controlled the movies seems like it's going to burst, with so many bizarre touches, it's almost surreal. The film is nearly exhausting. Milian is OK and so is the supporting cast. They're all upstaged by the freaky shenanigans that take place. The great cinematography is by Franco Delli Colli...the sky never looked so blue in such a gruesome film.

zardoz-13 Freshman director Giulio Questi's imaginative but contrived horse opera "Django, Kill!" qualifies as one of the most bizarre Spaghetti westerns. Questi filters the abrasive, morally-irresponsible action through the perspective of a wrongly accused half-breed (dressed like Han Solo) rather than a traditional western Anglo-Saxon individual. This eccentric, occasionally savage western delivers so many surprises that--by virtue of its unpredictable plot--it looms above others in the genre for sheer ingenuity. Like most Spaghetti westerns, "Django, Kill" concerns the fanatical quest for monetary wealth. Similarly, the fearless protagonist who sets out to exact vengeance on the Americans for double-crossing him propels the plot forward. The torture scene where vampire bats and other scary critters creep out of the darkness to encourage our abused hero to reveal the whereabouts of the gold doesn't belong in a western. Remember, "Django, Kill" boasts lots of surprises. Something changes every twenty minutes or so. The performances are often better than the dubbing. Piero Lulli makes a great villain while he is on screen. This western contains the most interesting wholesale example of vigilante justice since "The Ox-Bow Incident.""Django, Kill" opens as if it were a supernatural saga with a standard issue close-up of a man's hand crawling out of a grave after dark. Two Native Americans discover the protagonist and nurse him back to health. They take the gold that our hero has and melts it down into bullets. They assure him that gold bullets are the best. Initially, the Indians refer to the hero as an entity from another world. A loquacious American rancher named Mr. Sorrow, who wears a mostly white outfit, maintains an army of black-clad, Stetson-topped, cowboys at his disposal. A suspicious gay subtext runs through the scenes involving these gents. As any Spaghetti western aficionado can tell you, "Django, Kill" has nothing to do with the Sergio Corbucci original "Django" with Franco Nero. Apparently, the producers borrowed the name of Corbucci's western to parlay a fortune for themselves. Although it isn't a masterpiece, "Django, Kill" emerges as unforgettable, despite its sketchy characters.Lead actor Tomas Milian of "The Big Gundown" plays another Mexican, but he relies on a six-gun instead of a knife. He has about five fellow Mexicans with him and they are a part of the outlaw gang that surprises an Army gold shipment while the troops are skinny dipping. When the Stranger (Milian) demands his share of the gold from the robbery from outlaw chieftain Oaks (Piero Lulli), the Americans turn on the Mexicans. They disarm them and force them to dig a mass grave for themselves. One Mexican escapes and whittles away at their horses with a machete. He manages to kill enough horses between Oaks' gunslingers bring him down. Oaks and his men execute the Mexicans. Miraculously, the Stranger survives the ordeal and two Native Americans nurse him back to health. The outlaws trudge into a town that the Native Americans know as 'the Unhappy Place." Oaks and his sidekicks enter the bar and inquire about purchasing nine horses. The bartender discovers that they are outlaws, and the town lynches all of them, except Oaks who takes refuge in an abandoned building. The Native Americans bring the Stranger into town, and he puts four slugs into the treacherous outlaw chieftain. The bartender, Bill Templer (Milo Quesada), gives him $500, but our hero is intent only in sleeping in a room upstairs in the hotel.Few Spaghetti westerns are as visually surreal as "Django, Kill." The death of one of the villains when the gold that he has stashes melts and falls onto his face is definitely different. Nobody ever finds the gold.

servalansrazor A fine, if somewhat bananas spaghetti western that cashes in on the Franco Nero/Sergio Corbucci Django of the previous year simply by including Django in the title. What we have here, though, is a marvelous, if somewhat slightly mysterious example of the genre. More interesting than Django is a B***ard, or whatever its called this week, Django Kill really pulls out all the stops in an endless parade of the macabre. From the curious opening scene with Tomas Milian crawling out of a grave to the brutal lynchings and gothic horror drenching of one of many villains in liquid gold- this is a real treat for genre fans. As with many similar movies there are no morals anywhere to be seen, characters turn up, rub their hands together, kill mercilessly and then are shot down or, in this case, killed by an exploding horse. I understand that there are many versions of this movie in existence, which is not surprising in the least. The version i have was shown on uk tv five or six years ago, so i suppose its incompleteness would be down to broadcast quality prints. Its still a real doozer though.