Massacre Time (1966) poster
1966 · revenge · whip · fulci · nero

Massacre Time

Directed by Lucio Fulci1h 32m1966
ElsewhereIMDb6.53kTMDB6.477
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
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Sombre, kinetic, measured revenge / whip, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.

Our read · Massacre Time (1966) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive revenge · whip · fulci entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a dark spaghetti western of brothers vs a sadistic rancher tyrant.

ends bittersweetyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want heroic clean westerns without brutal sadism or revenge.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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