10 Best Horror Westerns

Not to be confused with the classic John Goodman starring kid's film The Borrowers (unless you're an incredibly irresponsible babysitter), The Burrowers is a far less whimsical affair. An intense and unsparing western horror, it might be the harshest entry on this list.

But in its own uncompromising way, this gripping horror is also one of the best examples of the horror Western cross-genre hybrid.

Coming from JT Petty, the director of snuff film mockumentary S&man, The Burrowers' uber-bleak tale of frontiersmen and natives being picked off by the titular monstrous beings travels similarly harsh terrain.

Essentially a dark and humourless remix of Tremors, the film ensures that the tensions between the native tribes and the invaders are already high enough for the film to be a tense and gruesome affair before the titular creatures arrive to make matters worse.

So, so much worse, since said monsters are some subterranean people eaters which, surprise surprise, don't particularly care to distinguish between locals and new arrivals when it comes down to dinner time. What follows is a twisted and terrifying siege horror with a vicious denouement you won't want to miss out on.