Elliot Lester directed the Arnold movie Aftermath, which was good, and now he’s adapting this Joe R.  Lansdale Western horror story with writer Chris Kelley. It’s been a passion project of Peter Dinklage, who has been trying to make it for ten years. He plays bounty hunter Reginald Jones, a bounty hunter who hunts criminals with his partner Eustace (Gbenga Akinnagbe). They’re hired by Jack (Levon Hawke) to save the missing sister, Lula (Esme Creed-Miles), who has been kidnapped by Cut Throat Bill (Juliette Lewis) and her gang.

This has some interesting casting, with Metallica’s James Hetfield playing Simon Deasley, the partner of brother Malachi (Macon Blair), two criminals hired by Bill to take out the bounty hunters. Plus, Jack also saves an imprisoned saloon girl, Jimmie Sue (Leslie Grace). And it all feels very The Great Silence and I mean that as a compliment. I really loved Lewis in this, as her character is covered in scars and has assumed a masculine role to fight back against the men who did her wrong, which has made her the villain.

I also loved how this is at the end of the West, as characters ride motorcycles and you get the idea that the modern world is just about to change everything for everybody. What makes me happy is that Tubi has picked this up and is giving people a chance to see it, as new Westerns — much less good ones — are in short supply these days. It looks gorgeous — cinematographer Guillermo Garza is incredible — and it’s great to see a Lansdale story become a movie. His story “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road” was used as an episode of Masters of Horror, directed by Don Coscarelli, who also made another Lansdale adaption, Bubba Ho-Tep. Other Lansdale films include Christmas With the Death, Cold In July and the Hap and Leonard TV show.

You can watch this on Tubi.