DJANGO KILL...IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!

SHOCKINGLY VIOLENT AND SURREAL... A MASTERPIECE OF THE GOTHIC WESTERN!
Tomas Milian (TRAFFIC, RUN MAN RUN) stars as a half-breed bandit double-crossed and left for dead who rises from the grave to seek his revenge. But when his quest leads to a bizarre town called The Unhappy Place, he is plunged into an odyssey of gruesome torture, graphic violence and relentless sexual depravity. This is the landmark movie that fans and critics still consider to be the strangest and most controversial Spaghetti Western ever made. This is DJANGO KILL!

Director Giulio Questi (DEATH LAID AN EGG) and co-writer/editor Franco Arcalli (co-writer of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA and LAST TANGO IN PARIS) shocked the world with this hallucinatory tale of greed, corruption, perversion and beyond. Also known as SE SEI VIVO SPARA (IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!), this definitive presentation of DJANGO KILL! has been created from original Italian negative materials with all of its infamous scenes of savagery and slaughter now fully restored for the first time ever in America.

DVD EXTRAS

Django, Tell! - Interviews with Co-Writer/Director Guilio Questi, Stars Tomas Milian and Ray Lovelock
Theatrical Trailer
Poster & Still Gallery

Tech Specs

Color
Dolby Digital Mono
English, Italian
Optional English Subtitles
2.35:1 / 16x9
1967
117 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0

Notes & Reviews


"SHOCKINGLY VIOLENT AND SURREAL... A MASTERPIECE OF THE GOTHIC WESTERN!"
-Spaghetti Cinema

"SO EXTREME IN EVERY WAY - IT IS ONE OF THE HANDFUL OF GREAT ITALIAN WESTERNS!"
-Alex Cox, Director of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy



This one is a first for me. A Metaphysical Spaghetti Western. I like westerns and I enjoy odd things, and this is both! It seems that our bandit "hero" is double crossed along with all the Mexicans by the White guys in the gang. They are all shot at the edge of a mass grave they are forced at gunpoint to dig for themselves. Later a pair of Native Indios out for a stroll or something come upon the wounded(?) and left for dead (again with the (?) as its possible that he IS in fact back from the dead). The Indios nurse the fallen bandit back to health in exchange for the stories of what he saw while on the other side. "It is said there are many animals to hunt there...?" etc etc. Our Hero never gets around to answering these significant questions as he becomes embroiled in the tracking down of the men who left him for dead. Alas. He is to late, the White Guy Bandits, ended up in the wrong town and got strung up by the locals, with two townies stealing the gold for themselves. Our Hero/Anti-Hero does not despair. He simply hangs out until the town itself explodes into violence over the gold. With everything from mystical Indios to a perverted Alderman who keeps his "insane" wife locked up in a room, this movie has more drama and side plots than a bus full of jr high schoolers on the way home from school. It was an interesting movie, and I was surprised by it, to be sure, and I would recommend it to the devout Western fan, as a "Hey you think you've seen em all? Check THIS one out" sort of thing. Cool flick, GREAT surgery scenes, solid gold bullets, and a possible vengeful ghost, it's more a story they might have told IN the old west, than a film ABOUT the old west. very cool, off center, and not what youd expect!