A man (Franco Nero) receives a message to return home where he discovers his family ranch overrun by bandits, the town also at the criminals' mercy. Lucio Fulci who later directed violent zombie films directed this violent spaghetti western which for the most part is above average for the genre. The sadistic villain is clad in white, the hero black. The twist toward the end is that the villain Scott is actually Nero's father, the sadistic violent villain is his brother whom he must kill to restore order. Many bullet riddled corpses and whipped people litter the film including Nero who, a la Eastwood in Fistful of Dollars (1964), is beaten and whipped to near death before recovering and triumphing. Aka The Brute and the Beast.
Review of Massacre Time
Massacre Time
(1966)
Early Fulci film - a western! Don't be surprised to find that it's violent.
28 January 2006
Warning: Spoilers