10 Best Horror Westerns
3. Mohawk
Written by My Best Friend's Exorcism author Grady Hendrix, Mohawk couldn’t be much further from that teen comedy horror novel (and soon to be major motion picture).
Then again, Mohawk is also nothing like director Ted Geoghegan’s debut, the 2015 siege thriller/blackly comic ghost horror We Are Still Here.
This intense and chilling 2017 indie reimagines the vengeful ghostly spirit of countless horror efforts as the hero of its story, and the genre deconstruction doesn’t end there.
A set of bloodthirsty American soldiers hunt down and murder the lovers of a native woman when she burns down their base. Soon after, with her people murdered by the heartless troupe of settlers, the film's perspective shifts and our heroine becomes a possibly supernatural embodiment of violent vengeance. She metes out all manner of violent ends to the cast one by one in a visceral and chilling ghostly remix of The Searchers.
Only, you know, this time the natives whose families are being slaughtered and whose homes are being destroyed are the heroes.
Understandably.