The western genre was initially optimistic and morally black-and-white, but violent movies like The Wild Bunch brought blood and moral ambiguity.
When the clear-cut ethics of western movies turned out to be an idealized myth, the genre took a violent turn with rougher, bloodier visions of life in the Old West. The western genre started out with an optimistic view of justice and a morally black-and-white perspective of good versus evil.
9 High Plains Drifter Clint Eastwood’s second directorial effort, High Plains Drifter, saw the iconic actor steer the western genre into the horror genre with a sinister demonic twist. The mysterious stranger that Eastwood plays, doling out his own brand of justice in a lawless western town, is either the reincarnation of a dead U.S. Marshal out to avenge his own death, or the Devil himself.
7 Cut-Throats Nine Spaghetti western director, Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent, delivered one of the most violent film of his career with 1972’s Cut-Throats Nine. When a wagon full of prisoners is attacked by bandits, a sergeant is tasked with transporting the survivors across the Rocky Mountains by foot. Cut-Throats Nine is one of the bleakest and bloodiest spaghetti westerns to come out of Spain.
5 The Proposition One of the most iconic Australian westerns – often named “meat pie westerns” or “bushranger movies” – The Proposition revolves around a lawman who blackmails an outlaw into killing his older brother by threatening to kill his younger brother. The Proposition is just as eager to exact bloody revenge as the average western, but it takes a hauntingly realistic look at the resulting violence.
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