I finally got around to watching this film last night and it was a huge let down. I had recently seen a documentary about spaghetti westerns and Django Kill was hailed as a weird, surreal and gore laden wonder. Director Alex Cox, author Sir Christopher Frayling and the director Giulio Questi were all interviewed about this film. Alex Cox even went as far as to say this was one of the strangest films he had ever seen.
After finally seeing the film I wondered for a while if I had watched a censored version, but the run time accorded with the uncensored print so I was left perplexed. Gay cowboys, extreme gore & violence, surrealism, something about a drunken parrot's narration.....WHERE?? The gore & violence were extremely tame even for the late 1960's. There was nothing surreal or even particularly weird about the film that I could discern. As for the gang of gay cowboys, I think one really has to look very hard with a loose interpretation of ''gay'' to see anything like this. At a stretch maybe they did rape the young man they kidnapped but that does not imply gayness. The ''drunken parrot narration'' was just a couple of minutes at the end of the film. Mr. Sorrow gives his Maccaw a small sip of brandy and the bird verbally taunts him in a very badly dubbed human voice. Hardly a narration.
The conclusion I have come to is this has to be some sort of marketing ploy to promote interest in this otherwise obscure and not very interesting spaghetti western. If Alex Cox thinks this film was strange he really needs to get out more.
*On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10 I would give this maybe a 4 based on other odd films I have seen.
After finally seeing the film I wondered for a while if I had watched a censored version, but the run time accorded with the uncensored print so I was left perplexed. Gay cowboys, extreme gore & violence, surrealism, something about a drunken parrot's narration.....WHERE?? The gore & violence were extremely tame even for the late 1960's. There was nothing surreal or even particularly weird about the film that I could discern. As for the gang of gay cowboys, I think one really has to look very hard with a loose interpretation of ''gay'' to see anything like this. At a stretch maybe they did rape the young man they kidnapped but that does not imply gayness. The ''drunken parrot narration'' was just a couple of minutes at the end of the film. Mr. Sorrow gives his Maccaw a small sip of brandy and the bird verbally taunts him in a very badly dubbed human voice. Hardly a narration.
The conclusion I have come to is this has to be some sort of marketing ploy to promote interest in this otherwise obscure and not very interesting spaghetti western. If Alex Cox thinks this film was strange he really needs to get out more.
*On a weirdness scale of 1 to 10 I would give this maybe a 4 based on other odd films I have seen.