As I was researching my master thesis and examining the tautology of genre, I stumbled upon Sholem Stein’s list of unusual westerns.

Luck would have it that the first film on the list, Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot!, is on YouTube, so I watched it.

Did it live up to its expectations?

Not really. It’s a silly film.

Two notes:

It gratuitously features a nude boy, just as El Topo did. But not as nude here and only seen from the back.

And then there are the close-ups, Sergio Leone style, including tiny drops of sweat.