Also known as Kill and Pray, this comes from director Carlo Lizzani, who also made Un Fiume di Dollari. It starts with a massacre of Mexican people as they are betrayed aby Confederate soldiers under the command of Ferguson (Mark Damon). Only a young boy survives, running into the desert where he is raised by Father Jeremy (Ferruccio Viotti) and grow into a holy man who is also incredibly good with a gun.
His stepsister Princy (Barbara Frey) rebels against her family and joins a traveling circus and the boy (Lou Castel) sets out to find her, getting the name Requiescant for the words he says every time he shoots someone. It basically means "go in peace" and he's atoning for each murder while providing last rites.
He finally finds his sister in San Antonio, a town now run by Ferguson and a place where his stepsister is forced into sexual slavery by Fergusson's henchman Dean Light (Carlo Palmucci). Once he learns who is in charge, he joins the cause of Father Don Juan (Pier Paolo Pasolini, who also worked on the script and yes, that's the same person who made Salo). Holy men sometimes need to kill, at least in the Italian West.
Damon is a revelation here, appearing as if he has walked out of a gothic horror movie all in black with his pale skin, literally treating everyone around him like they mean nothing. There's a scene where he strangles his wife while Dean watches where he seems aroused as he shouts "She died well, Dean. It was a beautiful moment for her."
I love the idea that these religious men have had enough and need to speed up God's vengeance.
This was written by not just the director and Pasolini, but also Franco Bucceri (My Dear Killer), Renato Izzo (Tentacles), Adriano Bolzoni (Sonny and Jed), Armando Crispino (The Dead Are Alive) and Lucio Battistrada (Autopsy).
His stepsister Princy (Barbara Frey) rebels against her family and joins a traveling circus and the boy (Lou Castel) sets out to find her, getting the name Requiescant for the words he says every time he shoots someone. It basically means "go in peace" and he's atoning for each murder while providing last rites.
He finally finds his sister in San Antonio, a town now run by Ferguson and a place where his stepsister is forced into sexual slavery by Fergusson's henchman Dean Light (Carlo Palmucci). Once he learns who is in charge, he joins the cause of Father Don Juan (Pier Paolo Pasolini, who also worked on the script and yes, that's the same person who made Salo). Holy men sometimes need to kill, at least in the Italian West.
Damon is a revelation here, appearing as if he has walked out of a gothic horror movie all in black with his pale skin, literally treating everyone around him like they mean nothing. There's a scene where he strangles his wife while Dean watches where he seems aroused as he shouts "She died well, Dean. It was a beautiful moment for her."
I love the idea that these religious men have had enough and need to speed up God's vengeance.
This was written by not just the director and Pasolini, but also Franco Bucceri (My Dear Killer), Renato Izzo (Tentacles), Adriano Bolzoni (Sonny and Jed), Armando Crispino (The Dead Are Alive) and Lucio Battistrada (Autopsy).