10 Best Horror Westerns

Pioneered in the eighties by Alien scribe Dan O'Bannon with his beloved cult horror Return of the Living Dead, the zombie comedy soon became a diverse genre staple beloved by horror fans.

Diverse may seem like an odd choice of words there, but subsequent works in the sub genre soon proved that zombie comedies could be successfully fused with Lovecraftian horror (1985's Re-Animator), splatter movies (1992's Braindead), and even rom-coms (20004's Shaun of the Dead).

Then in 2007, the ingeniously titled Undead or Alive mixed zombies and cowboys.

Together at last, this goofy and gory horror comedy saw the two natural enemies duke it out onscreen as a cast of familiar faces tried to save a small desert town from the rampaging revived recently deceased.

The movie milks its cross-genre premise for all its worth and, whilst its spoofy humour means it's far from the scariest film on this list, Undead or Alive's gunslingers versus brain eaters premise may be the most classic "horror tropes in a Western setting" conceit on here.