Creepy Cowboys - Four Weird Westerns Review

Retromedia picks up on the weird western niche with this 4-movie flipper disc, which boasts no extra features but includes four fine western B-movies with a bit of spook house atmosphere.

Each of these four short features presents standard cowboy hero plots, but adds in an element of horror – or at the least, macabre mystery – which usually provide their main point of interest. Tombstone Canyon (1932) and Rawhide Terror (1934) both serve up outrageously over-the-top psychos for our entertainment, giving us an Old Dark House chiller in the wide open spaces.

Just a bit slicker production on the same Poverty Row stage, Wild Horse Phantom's (1944) spook show tricks are upstaged by ‘Fuzzy’ St. Johns’ clowning, while Vanishing Riders (1935) gets a few points for putting skeleton men (and horses) in such the unusual western setting.