Carlo Lizzani – Requiescant AKA Kill and Pray (1967)
The adopted son of a preacher comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged ex-Confederate officer, who is – among other things – stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.
Letterboxd review by RanchoTuVu ★★★★½
An itinerant preacher and his wife and daughter rescue a Mexican boy who is the sole survivor of a massacre perpetrated by southern slaveowner. The boy grows up into Lou Castel as the daughter who becomes Barbara Frey, who’s like a sister to him now, wanders off into the moral morass of this film’s depiction of the west to become somewhat like a sex slave in one of the tawdriest saloons ever put on screen. Into this depravity wanders Castel in search of the daughter, his sister, and which leads him to Mark Damon, the evil southerner, who basically owns a town and employs a small army of enforcers, one of whom is a blond Franco Citti who kind of resembles Klaus Kinski. It just gets more twisted as it progresses, with a mesmerizing “drink and shoot” contest between Castel and Damon. It’s the twisted Damon’s idea. This guy has to be seen. He looks like Deracula himself. Riz Ortolani provided a minimal score, a lot of which is single notes on an acoustic guitar with some rhythmic accompaniment, that goes well with everything, especially the bleak desert-like physical environmnet. It’s got everything, racism, sexism, spirituality, some truly imaginative use of guns, and a thread that holds it together.
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General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
Size: 2.75 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 1024x552
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 3 410 kb/s
BPP: 0.252
Audio
#1: Italian 1.0ch AAC LC @ 139 kb/s
#2: English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 137 kb/s (English Dub)
Language(s):Italian, English
Subtitles:English
