Cult Movies, Westerns

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Actors:Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, ...
The Quick and the Dead
by Sony Pictures (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-09-29)

Actors:Walter Barnes, Verna Bloom, Paul Brinegar, Richard Bull, ...
High Plains Drifter
by Universal Studios (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-02-24)

Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger." He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After teaching the citizens self-defense and instructing them to paint the entire town red and rename it "Hell," the Stranger vanishes. He reappears when the marauding criminals arrive, and delivers justice and teaches the townsfolk a harsh lesson about moral obligation. Is he a figure from their past or a kind of supernatural avenger? Combining humor with action, High Plains Drifter is both a serious and tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Westerns that made Eastwood a household name. --Jeff Shannon

Actors:Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, ...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-01-28)

Actors:Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, ...
Near Dark
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2002-09-10)

The word "vampire" is never mentioned in Near Dark, but that doesn't stop this 1987 cult favorite from being one of the best modern-era vampire films. It put then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow on Hollywood's radar and gave choice roles to Aliens costars favored by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron: Lance Henriksen is the leader of a makeshift family of renegade bloodsuckers, nocturnally seeking victims in rural Oklahoma; his immortal gal pal is Aliens and Terminator 2 alumnus Jenette Goldstein; and Bill Paxton is the group's deadliest leather-clad ass kicker. Fellow traveler Jenny Wright lures Okie farm boy Adrian Pasdar into the group with a love bite, and he's soon turning toward vampirism with a combination of frightened revulsion and relentless desire. With Joshua Miller (River's Edge) as the youngest vampire, Near Dark is Bigelow's masterpiece of low-budget ingenuity--a truck-stop thriller that begins well, gets better and better (aided by a fine Tangerine Dream score), ...

Actors:Clint Eastwood, Joseph Egger, Klaus Kinski, Mara Krupp, ...
For A Few Dollars More
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-07-28)

Actors:Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, ...
Rancho Deluxe
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-12-19)

Actors:Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy, ...
A Fistful of Dollars
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-10-05)

Actors:Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, ...
Near Dark
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2004-07-01)

The word "vampire" is never mentioned in Near Dark, but that doesn't stop this 1987 cult favorite from being one of the best modern-era vampire films. It put then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow on Hollywood's radar and gave choice roles to Aliens costars favored by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron: Lance Henriksen is the leader of a makeshift family of renegade bloodsuckers, nocturnally seeking victims in rural Oklahoma; his immortal gal pal is Aliens and Terminator 2 alumnus Jenette Goldstein; and Bill Paxton is the group's deadliest leather-clad ass kicker. Fellow traveler Jenny Wright lures Okie farm boy Adrian Pasdar into the group with a love bite, and he's soon turning toward vampirism with a combination of frightened revulsion and relentless desire. With Joshua Miller (River's Edge) as the youngest vampire, Near Dark is Bigelow's masterpiece of low-budget ingenuity--a truck-stop thriller that begins well, gets better and better (aided by a fine Tangerine Dream score), ...

Actors:Stacie Bourgeois, Lara Bye, Bruce Campbell, Maria Checa, ...
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
by Dimension (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-09-28)

Actors:Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, ...
From Dusk Till Dawn
by Walt Disney Video (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-06-17)

From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi, Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their bloody wake. Then they hijack a mobile home driven by a former Baptist minister (Harvey Keitel) who quit the church after his wife's death and hit the road with his two children (played by Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Heading to Mexico with their hostages, the infamous Gecko brothers arrive at the Titty Twister bar to rendezvous for a money drop, but they don't realize that they've just entered the nocturnal lair of a bloodthirsty gang of vampires! With not-so-subtle ...

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