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10. Dust Devil

Richard Stanley's serial killer thriller and mystic curio took place in modern day Namibia. Yet despite the non-American location, Dust Devil's imagery and influences are pure Western, from the cowboy hat-wearing antagonist to the parched, unforgiving landscape where it's set.

The story had its roots in a South African case about a mysterious slayer with supposed supernatural powers. Future Robocop Robert John Burke played the title monster, the personification of an ancient predator, who roved the wilderness killing strangers to satisfy his vicious temperament.

The helmer acknowledged a visual debt to Spaghetti Westerner Sergio Leone, whose cinematic vistas made the territory a star of the film. Here Stanley did the same, accentuating the exotic backdrop even further by bringing us the Dust Devil, a fictional yet powerful mythic element from its distant past, who could only exist in remote, superstitious areas where his reputation held sway.

The movie had production problems and was butchered in the editing room, yet over the years has been regarded as a minor classic.