About a week ago, an avid AITH fan was kind enough to drop us a line about a zombie western called THE DEAD AND THE DAMNED, even guiding us to an initial trailer for the flick. Always good to hear from you readers, which makes the fact I can’t seem to find homey’s name for shout out even more irritating. Oh well, we’ll live. But until not until we see the dead. THE DEAD OF THE DAMNED!
Not like we need extra incentive to get down with a horror-western, a subgenre I’ve often said we’d love to see more of (just watched NEAR DARK, wouldn’t you know), but this here flick by Perez looks pretty damn fun. Check the rundown…
California gold rush, late 1800’s: A gun slinging bounty hunter (Mortimer) travels deep into the mountains to find a deadly Apache warrior (Brother Wolf) who is wanted by the law. Along the way he passes through a gold mining Town. The miners help direct Mortimer to the Apache and send him on his way.
Mortimer enters the forest and begins to track the Apache. Back in town, the miners un-earth an ancient meteor. They use their pick axes to crack it open. A section of the meteor splits apart and spores explode out of it. The spore surround and infect the entire population of the mining camp. They are transformed into ravenous mutants.
After a vicious battle against the Apache warrior, Mortimer exits the forest with his prisoner in shackles. They hike back to the mining town to find themselves surrounded by a horde of blood thirsty mutants. Now Mortimer the gun slinger and Brother Wolf the Warrior must join together to survive the mutant hordes. What ensues is a bloodbath of horror for the Dead and the Damned.
Not much I’m seeing wrong with that. You?
Currently tethered to an unknown 2010 release date, THE DEAD AND THE DAMNED stars David A. Lockhart, Camille Montgomery, Rick Mora, Robert Amstler, Heather Montanez, Mandy Pauline, Lauren C. Kelly, Randall Marshall Dillon, Fred Jardin and Autumn J.D. Harrison.
Enjoy the trailer!