Kill Django...Kill First (1971)

The Worst Film Ever

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This farce is 80 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Watching paint dry might have been equally as entertaining. First of all, there's no "Django" in the cast, and this movie has nothing to do with any "Django". It's just another low-budget potboiler that never managed to get to a lukewarm simmer. Giacomo Rossi Stuart, in the lead role as "Johnny" is too much a pretty boy to be credible in a Spaghetti western. Aldo Sambrell, as the arch-villain "Burton" (recognizable from "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"), the only real talent in the cast, doesn't do much other than stand around all dressed up sipping whisky and smoking cigars. There are a lot of characters, but no character development. The same can be said of the plot, such as it is. It's like the writers started out with an idea, but then forgot what it was somewhere along the way to the set. Characters we know nothing about appear from nowhere and then disappear and reappear randomly through the film. Some of the music by Elsio Mancuso has been recycled from "No Room to Die" (Una lunga fila di croci)(1969), further adding to the cheezy feeling. One star out of ten, only because IMDb won't allow ratings of ZERO stars.

I watched this stock spaghetti western under the title TEQUILA, although I see that it was already released as a pseudo DJANGO sequel under the title KILL DJANGO...KILL FIRST. It's a low budget but watchable piece of entertainment that metes out the stock plot elements with speed and efficiency, as low budget and undistinguished as they are. Giacomo Rossi Stuart is the square-jawed hero of the piece who arrives in town only to discover that a corrupt banker is trying to buy up all the local gold mines using nefarious purposes. There are a few odd plot elements including the presence of a kooky stranger, a voluptuous showgirl played by Diana Lorys, and Aldo Sambrell as the stock villain. It's fast paced although not particularly involving, although at least it isn't boring.

As you might expect from this so-called "Django" movie, there isn't a character in the movie with the name of Django. The movie was probably given the Django name because the producers realized the movie itself was pretty forgettable. There are a number of dull stretches, and the basic story will seem pretty familiar to most viewers.Still, the movie has its moments. There's a pretty good fistfight at one point, there are a couple more okay action sequences, the musical score is pretty nice to hear, and there is some unintentional amusement with one of the characters resembling makeup guru Tom Savini. But even with that stuff, I can only recommend this movie to die hard fans of spaghetti westerns.

I think this is more usually known in English as DJANGO, KILL, or DJANGO KILL (no comma). Known for completely over the top wild violence and rivers of red blood. Some see a very hidden homo-erotic perversity to it, but there is so much general perversity all around in it, who can say if one more flavor matters? It is kind of fun (if that is the word) to see it if you put it in the context of all the other Italian Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. Watch the documentary "Spaghetti West" to see how this one fits into the overall trend. Coming to it cold with no background, it may just seem crazy. As, indeed, I think it is somewhat.