15 Most Underrated Western Films Of All Time

Coming from Santa Sangre director and all-round madman Alejandro Jodorowsky (still waiting on that Dune adaptation), this trippy flick from 1970 epitomized the aesthetic of the short-lived “acid western” subgenre, codifying the tropes which would go on to define the style.

Those being?

A string of bizarre and unrelated plot events, characters who may or may not be walking metaphors, layered political and religious symbolism, and so much strange, surreal violence. More cohesive than the director’s later The Holy Mountain, this one is also more intensely downbeat and gory than that later headf***, but it’s nonetheless essential viewing for anyone who wants to claim a familiarity with every odd angle of the western genre.