Cool Videos: Animated horror-western short film The Backwater Gospel

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Last Updated on August 5, 2021

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Need something to darken your day in the very best kind of way?

The horror and western genres lend themselves exceedingly well to a vibrant and exciting sort of blend, and so I was pleased indeed to discover this little gem by The Animation Workshop.  The Animation Workshop is an animation school based out of Denmark, and this film was done as a project for a bachelor’s degree back in 2011.  But as it’s still on the web, and is not just “cool” but extremely cool, I’m now running it here. 

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According to the version of the video found here some publishing folks were talking to the director back in 2011 about doing a feature length expansion of the story, but to my knowledge nothing necessarily fruitful has yet come of said talks.  Could you be the one to make a difference?

Murder, fanaticism, death (which is generally a result of murder), fate, more murder, a new and fascinating animation style, very violent murder in particular – what’s not to like?

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