10 Most Violent Westerns Ever Made
1. Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
When a wagon load of prisoners are attacked by bandits on their way to prison, the only survivors are a Sergeant, his young daughter and seven hardened prisoners. All the Sergeant has to do is protect his daughter, avoid the bandits in pursuit, keep the prisoners in line and get to the prison. See how this might get hairy? We’ll let you imagine just how bad things get on this trip, but think disembowelment or worse and you’re on the right lines.
It’s every man for themselves in Joaquin Romero Marchent’s Cut-Throats Nine and a certain tension that could only come from having some of society's worst convicts in such close proximity. This film is conventionally loopy in its camera work, over the top and so brutal that it has become both a Western and a Horror classic.
Perhaps it’s not the film with the most cinematic merit on the list, but in terms of a film with unforgettable bleakness and savagery, look no further than Cut-Throats Nine. Don’t believe us? Well cinemas had to hand out ‘Terror Masks’ to movie-goers so they could hide their faces when it got too viscious. Now THAT’S a violent movie.