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.....Then here are some downright weird ones!!!!!
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https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-acid-westerns

I was always partial to the peyote scene in Young Guns (1988).  :teddyr:

interesting. I've seen HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER and heard of EL TOPO but it's not a subgenre I know much about.

I love how they distinguish between 'acid westerns' and 'pot westerns' in the intro  :bouncegiggle:

ZACHARIAH sounds fun and is on youtube, I'll give it a watch latet

The first South African western The Hellions is a real trip of a film indeed. The stern father in the film (the leader) calls his sons Matthew, Luke, Jubal, Mark and John.  :smile:

I think High Plains Drifter (1973) has been on TV a number of times since it's release, something of a remake of Invitation to A Gunfighter with this gunfighter returned from the grave thing going on....

I first read about El Topo (1970) http://www.badmovies.org/movies/eltopo/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/eltopo/) in Cult Movie by Danny Perry when I was a kid, & came across a VHS bootleg by Red River at a swap meet in the mid nineties.... Real trip!!! OT, I had a job once where we had to sit & listen to some retainment specialist or something, & "ADHD"; I kept thinking how much this guy looked like Sy Sperling, which in turn lead my to keep thinking about that scene where El Topo shoots off The Colonel's toupee'!!! :bouncegiggle:

I watched ZACHARIAH, wasn't sure exactly what to expect. found it pretty entertaining with a few real wtf moments... quite 'cartoony' in tone, not as serious as I thought it might be

I thought The Hired Hand (1971) was on this list, but I was mistaken; the list popped up while I was looking Peter Fonda's story of a cowboy who decides to go home after a seven year absence, then has to answer for something he did a few months earlier...

Caught this one on Sunday night, with the closed captions turned on while listening to music... 
To me, it came across as one of those bad early seventies cop shows that couldn't pull the ratings, with maybe one cool scene, but otherwise, overdirected, with too many layers added during post production....

There's one scene where Fonda's character shoots a guy, but instead of showing it, they freeze-frame, then do a zoom in on his face...

The Shooting (1966) is another one I first read about in Danny Perry's Cult Movies, with the review making a descent mention of Ride in the Whirlwind (1966), both of which where being filmed at the same time (something Roger Corman's always been good at).
Also making good use of Jack Nicholson's accent for the only time (IMHO) until Easy Rider....

There was a local PBS affiliate that used to recycle the same public domain movies every Saturday night back in the '90s, Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) being among them...
At the time, I hadn't quite developed a taste for westerns, but I was a fan of Roger Corman & other bmovie makers...
It's a case where three drifters are mistaken for three bank robbers.  The posse chasing them doesn't know who's who, so they decide to kill all six, leaving two out to survive...

I came across The Shooting (1966) on a discount DVD back in the early "00s at a Big Lot's outlet on a double bill with Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) back when $4.99 for a DVD was pretty cheap, but you got a really bad print. In one scene, Oates' character is talking to an indian, but the audio is missing from this print...............
Although a lot of it doesn't make sense, this one western got me thinking about overtaxing your horse.....