Just when you think you've seen it all
"Django kill!" starts like your usual revenge SW, with the ubiquitous Tomás Milian playing an outlaw that gets shot by his gang and left for dead. He is then revived by a couple of indian chamans and goes to the nearest village, where the gang is making too much display of the gold they've obtained.
But when "Django" (the film, as many others, it's an unofficial sequel to the Franco Nero - Sergio Corbucci film) reaches said town he founds his gang hanged and spends the rest of the film wandering around the village, seing how almost every inhabitant double crosses, cheats and murders in order to obtain the loot.
It's a weird, weird movie, really. If the revenge / morality tale themes are common in SW, the camerawork is far more extreme, reminding more an horror movie than a western. Landscapes, in the few outdoor scenes, are either somber or threatening, and the interiors, often in semi-shadow, are somehow claustrophobic in their verosimilitude. Even more extreme is the set of characters, ranging from arbitrarily brutal outlaws, hipocritical villagers to a "hero" that is more a witness than the cause of most events that take place.
Want more? There's a gunfighter that shoots gold bullets, a torture scene involving bats, a gothic heroine, a gay outlaw who -I kid you not- is always accompanied by a gang of black-uniformed henchmen, and some of the nastiest gore ever to be seen on the genre.
Is it any good? Hell yes!
I'm surprised I never got to hear about this one before, maybe it is the stigma of being a faux Django sequel what steers people away from this one. It's a hell of a movie, but only if you've got a strong stomach and you can find the uncut 117' cut.
