There was a movie I saw advertised called "pelts" anyone heard anything on this. I only heard from one source that it was a decent gore flick...

 

It's Dario Argento's second season Masters of Horror episode. I haven't seen it yet. His first season episode Jennifer was awesome so his second one should be just as good. Pelts sounds pretty odd from a description that one of the guys posted on another forum. Give me a minute and I'll find it.

 

Pelts:

Meatloaf stars as Jake, a sleazy furrier whose obsession for a lesbian stripper named Shannon results in his attempting to make the finest fur ever for her to wear at an upcoming fur trade show. John Saxon plays a trapper who comes through for Jake by setting traps in sacred raccoon territory to capture the most beautiful animals imaginable. However, as these raccoons are magical guardians of a lost raccoon city, they curse all associated with the deaths of their brethren with the desire to commit gory suicides using techniques employed in the manufacturing of fur coats.



Meatloaf, John Saxon, and magical raccoon guardians of a lost raccoon city!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

yeah ok then... WTF?! is about right!!

 

HAHAHAHAHA.... wow, that sounds deep!
I thought I SAW all of the MofH's last year.

 

Pelts is one of the new batch. I watched a clip from Pelts and a dude completely chopped his face off in some steel trap thing so it looks like it delivers. Out of the first season I would say Cigarette Burns was my favorite. I just ordered The Great Silence. My wife is going to kill me because she hates westerns and that's all I've bought recently.

 

CH, The great Silence is my favorite Spaghetti Western! Way cool!
Kinski is a badasss! You will love it. Great cinematography too.

I just watched a Spaghetti western the other night where Kinski played a small part as the scalp man or some such. He cut scalps off of folks while they are alive just 'cause ......
The movie seemed more of a basis for the Kung Fu TV show. It stared a Chinese man wandering the west . In this case he just wants to be another cowboy, but racist folks will not give him a chance. He has special powers of secret martial arts and was trained by the monks. He passed the rite of passage with another monk and they lifted a hot iron thing to get their brandings. Sound like Kung Fu to me

It was called the legend of Kung Fu Jack or somesuch. I'll remember the exact title later and post it.

I really enjoy some of the supporting characters in these westerns, like Ally Cat, Harmonica, Banjo, etc. All add to the weird ambiance that pervades the Spaghetti western.
Enjoy the Silence............

 

I think I may have to go back to buying horror DVD's soon before my wife wants a divorce. j/k Last night she told me she never wanted to see another of my stupid westerns ever again. So today in retaliation I ordered The Strangers Gundown a.k.a. Django the Bastard. Have you seen A Bullet for Sandoval? I can't decide if I want to add it to my collection because I've read mixed reviews. I know Fulci co-directed it or was second unit director or something like that so that kind of makes me want it but it doesn't seem like the type of violent bad ass western that I normally like.

 

I've sen "A Bullet.." But I cannot remember much about it as it was say twenty years back that I watched it ( I'm gettin' old! ).
You are right, Fulci was involved, so ya gotta get it! That's just the way these things work ya know.............

 

I'm watching Once Upon a Time in the West right now. I have to say out of all of Leone's films OUATITW is his masterpiece. I never knew Dario Argento co-wrote the story. I knew he wrote and co-wrote a few westerns but I didn't know OUATITW was one of them. Harmonica is awesome and Frank is a great villain. The scene where Leone introduces Frank has to be one of the most iconic moments in any spag western history! I love how Leone slow pans around and there's Henry Fonda standing there as a cold blooded killer. It's kind of weird seeing Henry Fonda in that role though. I'm used to seeing guys like Lee Van Cleef go back and forth between hero and villain but not Henry Fonda. It's a great example of how spaghetti westerns threw all the traditional westerns rules out the window.