Django Kill! - Se sei vivo spara (1967)

[Neville]

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.

[Scott]

This is a good one Neville and it's amost always about the gold in these Spaghetti Western films. Yea, there is the torture scene of Tomas Milan in prison and the fire at the end. Good Spaghetti Western. Not the best, but a good one. The story kinda lose me a times, but it didn't matter.



(7 out of 10 Stars) You have to like the sub-title.

[Neville]

The film was marketed in my country as "Oro maldito" (Cursed Gold), and it's a fitting title.

[Yaddo 42]

I have the Blue Underground DVD of this one, and like it more for the mood, trippy atmosphere, and Milian's acting than for the story, but the film works for me. Really brutal, just trying to imagine the bullet retrieval scene or the ending in an American western. Plus the two Indian mystics seem to be goading Milian on for their own amusement rather than helping him, until, well...you know.