October 19: A Horror Film with Undead Cowboys and/or Undead Civil War Soldiers

Directed by Rene Perez, who wrote the story with Barry Massoni, The Dead and the Damned is about a meteor causing a zombie infestation in the West of the past. Mortimer (David Lockhart) is a bounty hunter out to capture Brother Wolf (Rick Mora), a Native American accused of sexual assault. To lure him into his trap, he brings Rhiannon (Camille Montgomery). Yet they all have to work together when miners try to break that rock that crashed from space.

Also known as Cowboys & Zombies, this has a sequel called Tom Sawyer vs. Zombies. There’s also a third movie, The Dead and the Damned 3: Ravaged.

In case you wondered, yes, this is the same Rene Perez that made Death Kiss, the film that introduced the world to Charles Bronson lookalike Robert Bronz. Perez also made two recent movies that I know I’m going to have to watch, Pro God – Pro Gun and They Want Us Woke Not Awake — that I also realize I am going to hate with every piece of my heart.

This movie also has most of the cast wearing modern cowboy boots with rubber soles and Levis from the 21st century. It also has the tagline “It’s Clint Eastwood meets George Romero as undead, flesh-eating gun-slingers roam the Wild West.” Yeah. That tagline.