Massacre Time (Tempo di massacro) (1966)

Oh what time is it? It's NeroVember so time to view those baby blues in a spaghetti western as he is called away from his panhandling ways to deal with family issues in his old stomping ground of Laramie(Not to be confused with the Simpson's brand of cigarettes), Texas. …

pirateneckbeard

Lucio Fulci's first western is a marriage of the style of the time - taking clear and obvious influence from Leone's Dollars Trilogy and Django - and the director's taste for gore. The film starts as it means to go on - a man is hunted down and torn apart by a pack of dogs.…

Slig001

Franco Nero became Max Payne for the final 20 minutes.

Sam🦧

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Dan Abel

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theironcupcake

Hey gentlemen!* As soon as I finished watching Massacre Time, I put on my Sunday best, thew my saddle on my favorite horse, and rode into town just so I could tell everyone about it over a bottle of whiskey and a game of cards.  Massacre Time comes early on in both…

Dave Edwards

A good standard spaghetti western that gets the job done, Lucio Fulci showcases that he always comes in clutch regardless of the genre he is pursuing. "Massacre Time" is something that I would consider a "meat and potatoes" standard meaning that its pretty straight forward…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

Watched with the lovely Jonathan Martin who, slowly but surely, is becoming a Westerns Guy.™ His review is here. I first watched Massacre Time five years ago, very early in my spaghetti westerns project. At the time, I came away very impressed by it, but I recall little…

sakana1

Hurt a little bit by the fact that I watched Fulci's other spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse first which is a deeply unpleasant genre exercise in all the ways his horror movies frequently were, playfully weaponizing shock sadism, duration, etc. This on the other hand…

Josh Lewis