TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Theo Robertson The only reason I watched this is because it was advertised on the internet as "A horror Western" Hmmm a mixed genre film featuring cowboys and horror elements . It's not something you see every day. After seeing the movie it's not something I want to see again A caption tells us "In the nineties twelve renegades disguise themselves as Indians to rob settlers" You have to remember this is a Western so any mental images of Peter Sellers dressing himself up in a turban and robbing rave goers at a beach in Goa are quickly dispelled. Considering the renegades are so ruthless they won't take any prisoners it's never revealed why they have to disguise themselves in the first place As the film continues it becomes more and more apparent that this in no way any type of horror movie . It's just simply a revenge Western where a boy grows in to a man off-screen and when he reaches adulthood it's a case of a man having to do what a man has to do. I felt rather cheated by this and you will be too if you're expecting horror thrills I did perhaps console myself in watching a film from an era when talkies ere just becoming common place while baring in mind it's a massive amount of films were being made from yesteryear. But no it's a dreadful film composed of stilted acting , haphazard editing and badly framed sequences. And no it's not bad enough to be good either. A complete waste of 47 minutes

JohnHowardReid Although he tried hard – and that was just the trouble – Ed Cobb was one of the least charismatic actors under the sun. Ed always knew his lines and never gave any of the directors of his 661 movies and TV shows any trouble or any arguments – or, worse still – any suggestions. This film was Cobb's only starring role, although he did not, of course play the lead character. Nevertheless, he is given the lion's share of screen time in this extremely muddled and somewhat dull western which is not really worth anyone's attention except lovers of ridiculous but dreary, all-talking, bottom-of-the-barrel, z-grade movies. Although Art Mix is billed as the star, I don't recall seeing him in the last half of the film at all. However, don't quote me! It's quite likely that I simply fell asleep. And I'm certainly not going to watch this mess of a movie again – not ever! Available as an extra in Troma's "Psycho a Go- Go" DVD.

Michael_Elliott Rawhide Terror, The (1934) * (out of 4) Incredibly bad "B" picture that started off as a 12-chapter serial but when the money fell through the producers decided to just make a western. To bring more money in they sold the picture as the first horror/western but this film is so bad it makes both genres look bad. A killer known as "The Rawhide Killer" is strangling various members of a small town and no one seems to know why. This movie was produced and written by Victor Adamson who's son would go on to make various drive-in classics like Dracula vs. Frankenstein and Horror of the Blood Monsters.

dottyh **CONTAINS LOTS OF SPOILERS** This has to be one of the strangest westerns I've ever watched. Not so much the plot--what there was of it--but the pure confusion of who was the hero and who wasn't. At the beginning, I thought the two boys were named Al and Tim (or Jim). Later, when we encounter the grown up "Al" (Art Mix) I assumed he was one of the birthmarked brothers. He also seemed to be the "hero," flirting with the heroine, saving the day, being nearly killed by the "rawhide terror" villain. The sheriff (Edmond Cobb) appeared sporadically and I did not catch a name given to him. Suddenly, about two-thirds through the film, Al seemed to vanish with no explanation... and the sheriff not only turned out to be one of the brothers, but got the girl. What happened to Al?I suppose the fact (mentioned in the "trivia") that this movie purportedly started out to be a serial and was turned into a regular-length movie may have something to do with the addled plot. This is on the "Creepy Cowboys" compilation DVD which I bought for the Ken Maynard movie on it, so I may have to watch Rawhide Terror again simply to see if I missed something!