The Quick and the Dead (1995)
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Sombre, breathless, extreme western / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
Our read · The Quick and the Dead (1995) (1995) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded western · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent 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.
More info & search links
The shape of The Quick and the Dead
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a fun, bloody western tournament with sharp casting and Raimi flair.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike western shootouts or want deep character studies over action.
The reading.
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.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
Discussion
What does your Movie DNA look like?
Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.
Calibrate yourself