June 28: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Westerns! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next.

I love a horror Western. There’s Bone Tomahawk, The Pale Door, Death Ride In the House of the Vampires — I had to get that in there — and Grim Prairie Tales. Oh yeah, there’s also Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Curse of the Undead and Billy the Kid versus Dracula. Soem of my favorite Italian Westerns have a horror element to them, like Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! and And God Said to Cain.

This movie feels like it was meant for me.

Do you want a Western with Jack the Ripper leaving England for the Wild West? And what if he dresses like a slasher killer and has talks with himself about purifying women? Wouldn’t that be awesome? Maybe more awesome than A Knife for the Ladies.

But what if Jack the Ripper battled a man named Mr. Buchinski who looked just like Charles Bronson because he’s played by Robert Bronzi, a sixtysomething Hungarian action star who was born Robert Kovacs. The man who would be Bronzi was performing in a European Wild West stage show when director Rene Perez saw his photo on the wall of a bar and thought it was from an undiscovered Bronson movie. Since then, he’s been in Death Kiss, Cry Havoc, Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, Exorcist Vengeance, Escape from Death Block 13 and this Western.

If you didn’t get the significance, Bronson’s real name was Charles Dennis Buchinsky.

A lot of the female cast of this were also victims in another movie by Rene Perez, Playing With Dolls: Havoc. Perez also made the movies They Want Us Woke Not Awake and Pro God – Pro Gun, so I have to track those down because, yeah. Wow. Also: that Havoc serial killer is also in Cry Havoc where we can answer “What if Jason fought Bronson?”

The killer might be Francis Tumblety who some people think was the Ripper. He did not look like a slasher villain but who are we to try and bring logic into a movie where a fake Bronson battles a monster in a tourist Western town? Also, the Ripper wears a mask like Cronenberg in Nightbreed.

You won’t care about anyone in this by Bronzi. Such is his power. But seriously, nobody really matters. This should have just been an hour of Bronzi shooting guns at a serial killer.

You can watch this on Tubi.