It’s how the west was won… in our imaginations. Geek culture has always loved melding two popular genres together to make fun mashups, and the Western needed a kick in the pants anyway. This is why we’ve seen an interesting sub-genre that we like to call “Wild Weird Westerns” arise — a blend of the Western, science fiction, steampunk, and just plain oddness.
Cowboys and six-shooters are just fine, but add an alien or rampaging steam-driven robot? That’s when we’ve reached flavor country, pardners!
So join us this week as Mutant Reviewers explores the Wild Weird West of film folklore. It’ll be a trip!
Hopefully one of you will use the opportunity to cover The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
I would also recommend Oblivion, one of Full Moon Entertainment’s collection of offbeat movies. Hmm… they made a sequel to it as well…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110706/
I first saw it on William Shatner’s Full Moon Fright Night in which William Shatner was a horror show host.
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