10 Most Intense Gunfights In Westerns

Once again we have a Quentin Tarantino film. And a much better one than The Hateful Eight. Set in the antebellum south, Jaimie Foxx's Django takes vengeance on the plantation owner who's enslaved his wife. A loose remake on the Franco Nero classic series, Unchained has better dialogue, production value and a more compelling protagonist.

But it still keeps the cracking gunfights and over the top gore of those classics. In fact, it improves on them. Look no further than the scene when Django takes on the entire plantation after Schultz and Candie both, quite literally, bite the bullet.

Saying that the walls were stained red might sound like some fancy description, but here they are literally soaked with blood. Every gunshot has more blood than is in the human body spray out like a fountain. Heads and limbs are blown off, and dead bodies are used as cover.

It is refreshingly fun to see the bad guys get taken down in such an over the top fashion. You will laugh more than wince as it carries on. That is the magic of Tarantino and we can only be thankful that he brought such splendor to the western, just when everyone thought the genre was dead and buried.