The old west gets hairy when a town is overtaken by skinwalkers, or as we all like to call them, werewolves.
Knowing they've got to combine forces if they want to survive the night, the passengers of a stagecoach unite with a heroic gunslinger and a couple of outlaws to battle the beastly enemy under the blood red moon......
It appears lately that any high concept film, trying to mix genres together, rarely gets it right, and they are usually funded by some small British film company. Some, on the rare occasion, get it right, like cockneys Vs Zombies.
But then there's a film called Navy Seals Vs Zombies........make of that what you will.
But like those films, where they come up with the title and work from there, the premise here is pretty sound, even if it does sound like Tarantino's forthcoming Hateful Eight, sans Lycanthrope.
And this is where the film falters. I can imagine while Tarantino's protagonists/Antagonists are holed up together, they will have rich and complex characterisation, and have some wonderful dialogue to boot.
Here, it's pretty mundane, we have the bad guys telling everyone else to shut up after they get a bit chippy with one another, and there's occasional flirting from the bar owner. Oh and every once in a while, the one you recognise from other films spits, and he spits a lot.
And this happens for the whole of the second act, and the majority of the third, until we finally get to see what we've been eating to see for the whole movie, and as predicted, it's a bit of a let down.
There is some sub-plot involving another party, and one is a bit mysterious, but it detracts from the 'action' in the bar.
And it all finishes with the bloke from Billy Elliot saying that you wouldn't have heard where he came from and giving the whole film a sort of Van Helsing vibe, and sorts of promises the beginning of a franchise, which could improve if their are vampires involved.
Which sounds a lot more promising than Traffic Wardens vs Zombies.....
Knowing they've got to combine forces if they want to survive the night, the passengers of a stagecoach unite with a heroic gunslinger and a couple of outlaws to battle the beastly enemy under the blood red moon......
It appears lately that any high concept film, trying to mix genres together, rarely gets it right, and they are usually funded by some small British film company. Some, on the rare occasion, get it right, like cockneys Vs Zombies.
But then there's a film called Navy Seals Vs Zombies........make of that what you will.
But like those films, where they come up with the title and work from there, the premise here is pretty sound, even if it does sound like Tarantino's forthcoming Hateful Eight, sans Lycanthrope.
And this is where the film falters. I can imagine while Tarantino's protagonists/Antagonists are holed up together, they will have rich and complex characterisation, and have some wonderful dialogue to boot.
Here, it's pretty mundane, we have the bad guys telling everyone else to shut up after they get a bit chippy with one another, and there's occasional flirting from the bar owner. Oh and every once in a while, the one you recognise from other films spits, and he spits a lot.
And this happens for the whole of the second act, and the majority of the third, until we finally get to see what we've been eating to see for the whole movie, and as predicted, it's a bit of a let down.
There is some sub-plot involving another party, and one is a bit mysterious, but it detracts from the 'action' in the bar.
And it all finishes with the bloke from Billy Elliot saying that you wouldn't have heard where he came from and giving the whole film a sort of Van Helsing vibe, and sorts of promises the beginning of a franchise, which could improve if their are vampires involved.
Which sounds a lot more promising than Traffic Wardens vs Zombies.....