What is Helldorado you ask?
Gunfights! Kung fu! Monsters! If Hammer Films had hired a band of Hong Kong filmmakers to create a Spaghetti Western, they’d have created HELLDORADO! An unspeakable act of violence has altered reality itself, and a supernatural evil looms over the town of El Dorado. The most horrific myths of the Far East threaten to engulf the American West in darkness, and the only thing standing between a vengeful Chinese vampire, its army of undead minions, and the end of humankind is an unlikely band of erstwhile heroes: an heiress, a gambler, an aging sheriff, his deputy, and a warrior priest. Horror, fantasy, kung fu, and Western action combine in this bizarre genre mash-up!
Whats interesting about this description is that Hammer actually DID do a mash-up film. It was a co-production with The Shaw Brothers, a Kung Fu Vampire film called THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES. It isn't a Weird Western but it IS a fun cheesy Kung Fu Vampire movie.....and Ive always considered Kung Fu films to be the Western genre of China (Just like the Samurai film is the Western genre of Japan)
But what about Helldorado? Well check it out HERE and see for yourself! It was written by C. Michael Hall with art by Martin Coccolo. No release date yet (that I can find) but Ill let you know as soon as I do.
Enjoy!
2 comments:
That preview is pretty cool!
Hope you eventually found the book and enjoyed it. I was aware of LotSGV when I wrote Helldorado, but it might suprise you to learn that I was never all that fond of the film! Hammer's best output was, in my opinion, well behind them by the time LotSGV came out, and the synthesis of the Hammer and Shaw styles never quite synched up for me, despite my being a big fan of both studios. So Helldorado was my way of taking a second run at the vampire/kung fu concept while interjecting all those cool Western elements.
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