Sunday, January 18, 2026

Tonight's Stinker: Black Killer (1971)

Tonight's Stinker Black Killer (1971) https://youtu.be/VQ9fXq21y1Y?si=RL6txmmXNGsQFFei Opens with techno music, & Klaus Kinski in one of the corniest overdubbs I've ever seen in a foreign movie.... So, Kinski pulls into town with a lotta books, all of which have a gun hidden in them... A group of Mexicans with Irish surnames are expecting a government inspector, & at first assume it might be Kinski.... The inspector is supposed to be in on their plan to run people off their land & force them to sign over the deeds, but when the real inspector shows up, they kill him anyway..... The next day, a gun fighter pulls into town to visit his brother.... Meanwhile, Kinski coerces the local judge to put a warrant on the leader of the Mexi-Irish, & convince the gunfighter to become sheriff..... Decent action & pacing, though certain plot points are left up to the viewer to figure out.... Kinski's real motives are never fully revealed.... There's also a matter of Kinski, the gunfighter and a blonde bad guy all wear black & have the same haircut, making it hard to recognize certain characters at times..... Also, about halfway through, the closed captions get ahead of the movie, so you might wanna turn those off.....

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