Western Horror Movies
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1. The Phantom of the West (1930)
Passed | 172 min | Western
A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tom Tyler, William Desmond, Tom Santschi, Dorothy Gulliver
Votes: 73
2. Mystery Ranch (1932)
Passed | 56 min | Mystery, Western
An undercover ranger investigates a deranged rancher who acts as a law unto himself, finding a girl held as a prisoner until she agrees to marry the madman.
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Cecilia Parker, Charles Middleton, Charles Stevens
Votes: 83
3. Haunted Gold (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
John and Janet get a weird letter telling them to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom.
Directors: Mack V. Wright, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Sheila Terry, Harry Woods
Votes: 762
4. Tombstone Canyon (1932)
62 min | Western
Maynard hears the cry of the weird masked "phantom" of Tombstone Canyon. The plot thickens when Maynard discovers a man with a key to his past has been murdered by the phantom.
Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, Sheldon Lewis, Frank Brownlee
Votes: 208
5. Smoking Guns (1934)
Approved | 62 min | Western
Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.
Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Gloria Shea, Walter Miller
Votes: 36
6. The Rawhide Terror (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Western
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens.
Directors: Bruce Mitchell, Jack Nelson | Stars: Art Mix, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, William Barrymore
Votes: 183
7. The Vanishing Riders (1935)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Sheriff Bill Jones, in the line of duty, kills outlaw Joe Land and adopts his young son, Tim. They come upon a former silver boomtown, reputed to be haunted, whose only inhabitant is Hiram ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Bill Cody, Bill Cody Jr., Ethel Jackson, Hal Taliaferro
Votes: 68
8. Big Calibre (1935)
Approved | 58 min | Western
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Peggy Campbell, Forrest Taylor, John Elliott
Votes: 74
9. Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western
A supernatural western! The Three Mesquiteers accompany an archeological expedition to a lost Indian city of gold called Lukachuke.
Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Mary Russell
Votes: 241
10. Wild Horse Phantom (1944)
Passed | 56 min | Western
A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Falcon, Al St. John, Janet Warren
Votes: 138
11. The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
Approved | 79 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Directors: Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro
Votes: 1,880
12. El jinete sin cabeza (1957)
91 min | Horror, Western, Mystery
A mysterious horseman has arrived in a town, the local people talk about local legends of a gunman come from hell. The gangs of criminals are terrified because they know that confronting him is going to certain death.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Pascual García Peña
Votes: 57
13. Swamp of the Lost Souls (1957)
80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Gastón Santos, Rayo de Plata, Manola Saavedra, Pedro de Aguillón
Votes: 160
14. Teenage Monster (1957)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Western
In 1880 a young boy is exposed to the effects of a meteor and becomes an ugly killer monster, as his mother hides him in her new house and tries to stop his killing.
Director: Jacques R. Marquette | Stars: Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Castillo, Chuck Courtney
Votes: 401
15. Curse of the Undead (1959)
Passed | 79 min | Horror, Western
While a malady is claiming the lives of young women in a Western town, a sinister gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley, John Hoyt
Votes: 1,400
16. The Living Coffin (1959)
72 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
Director: Fernando Méndez | Stars: Gastón Santos, María Duval, Pedro de Aguillón, Hortensia Santoveña
Votes: 217
17. The Ship of Monsters (1960)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Two extraterrestrial women are sent on a mission by the regent of Venus to search for a male of another planet.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Eulalio González, Ana Bertha Lepe, Lorena Velázquez, Consuelo Frank
Votes: 460
18.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Grave
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him but gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: Lee Marvin, James Best, Strother Martin, Elen Willard
Votes: 2,713
19. El Charro de las Calaveras (1965)
79 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
Episodic film in which a masked hero combats a trio of classic monsters.
Director: Alfredo Salazar | Stars: Dagoberto Rodríguez, David Silva, Alicia Caro, Pascual García Peña
Votes: 197
20. El pueblo fantasma (1965)
87 min | Horror, Mystery, Western
A vampire is on the loose in an Old West town.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Rodolfo de Anda, Fernando Luján, Julissa, Elsa Cárdenas
Votes: 56
21. Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Dracula travels to the American West intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance', outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey, Virginia Christine
Votes: 2,259
22. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
Approved | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Western
Maria Frankenstein puts the brain of a monster into the body of one of Jesse James' sidekicks.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Lupton, Narda Onyx, Cal Bolder, Estelita Rodriguez
Votes: 2,078
23. The Devil's Mistress (1965)
66 min | Drama, Horror, Western
In the Old West, a female vampire preys on unsuspecting cowboys.
Director: Orville Wanzer | Stars: Joan Stapleton, Robert Gregory, Wes Moreland, Douglas Warren
Votes: 90
24. Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Western
Various factions, including a half-breed bandit, a gang of homosexual cowboys, and a priest, feud over stolen gold in a surreal town.
Director: Giulio Questi | Stars: Tomas Milian, Marilù Tolo, Piero Lulli, Milo Quesada
Votes: 2,937
25. Django the Bastard (1969)
PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A mysterious stranger appears to take terrifying revenge on former Confederate officers who during the Civil War betrayed and were responsible for the massacre of their unit.
Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Paolo Gozlino, Luciano Rossi, Teodoro Corrà
Votes: 1,268
26. Black Noon (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Western
A traveling minister and his wife are quietly menaced by a devil cult in the Old West. By the time the Good Reverend figures out what's going on it may be too late to stop the evil.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux, Ray Milland, Gloria Grahame
Votes: 404
27. South of Hell Mountain (1971)
R | 87 min | Western, Horror
After planning to just rob a gold mine, an outlaw and his two sons end up killing all of the miners. While fleeing to Canada, they stop at a small cabin in the woods where they find a woman... See full summary »
Directors: Lew Lehman, William Sachs | Stars: Anna Stuart, Sam Hall, Nicol Britton, Elsa Raven
Votes: 56
28. Enter the Devil (1972)
PG | 75 min | Horror, Thriller, Western
Somewhere in south west Texas, where a christian cult is said to have resided in the past, a deputy sheriff investigates a number of suspicious deaths.
Director: Frank Q. Dobbs | Stars: Joshua Bryant, Irene Kelly, David S. Cass Sr., John Martin
Votes: 522
29. Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Western
A mutant sheep is on the move near a ranch in the American West.
Director: Fredric Hobbs | Stars: Christopher Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Peggy Browne
Votes: 907
30. A Knife for the Ladies (1974)
R | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A private detective travels out west to investigate the murders of several prostitutes, facing off against the reluctance of the town's grizzled sheriff, and several suspicious characters, each with something to hide.
Director: Larry G. Spangler | Stars: Jack Elam, Ruth Roman, Jeff Cooper, John Kellogg
Votes: 401
31. Inn of the Damned (1975)
R | 118 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in but never check out.
Director: Terry Bourke | Stars: Judith Anderson, Alex Cord, Michael Craig, Joseph Fürst
Votes: 500
32. El caballo del diablo (1975)
88 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even ... See full summary »
Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Jorge Rivero, Narciso Busquets, Juan Miranda, Yolanda Ochoa
Votes: 63
33. The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Western
Two former Confederate captains set out to recover diamonds hidden in the mountains of Arkansas but a native spirit named Chikara is said to protect the sacred mountains against intruders.
Director: Earl E. Smith | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Sondra Locke, Ted Neeley, Joy N. Houck Jr.
Votes: 463
34. El diabólico (1977)
93 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Strange Western in which a Satan worshiping madman gives his supernatural medallion to the town loser and has him swear to Satan to avenge his death.
Directors: Giovanni Korporaal, Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Stars: Carlos East, Jorge Russek, Jorge Humberto Robles, Odila Flores
Votes: 59
35. The Whip Against Satan (1979)
80 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
The masked hero known as "The Whip" must battle against a satanic cult lead by a demonic entity terrorizing a small town.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Juan Miranda, Noé Murayama, Rubén Rojo, Yolanda Ochoa
Votes: 41
36. Sabor a sangre (1980)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Western
Un pueblo entero oculta el secreto de un asesino que anda suelto a quien se dice el tigre. Antonio Aguilar entra al pueblo cantando sobre su caballo bailoteando para entremeterse en el asunto. Hay venganzas y canciones de sobra.
Director: Mario Hernández | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, José Gálvez, Bruno Rey
Votes: 27
37. El extraño hijo del Sheriff (1986)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Set in the old west, the sheriff's wife gives birth to conjoined twins, she dies during labor and the ashamed sheriff decides to hide his children, years later he force the town doctor to ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Durán Rojas | Stars: Mario Almada, Eric del Castillo, Rosa Gloria Chagoyán, Alfredo Gutiérrez
Votes: 118
38. Eyes of Fire (1983)
R | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Western
A preacher is accused of adultery, and he and his followers are chased out of town. They become stranded in an isolated forest, which is haunted by the spirits of French colonists controlled by evil.
Director: Avery Crounse | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein
Votes: 2,272
39. Ghost Town (1988)
R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Western
A modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her.
Directors: Richard McCarthy, Mac Ahlberg | Stars: Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust
Votes: 1,822
40. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Western
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sun cream to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.
Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: David Carradine, Morgan Brittany, Bruce Campbell, Jim Metzler
Votes: 3,488
41. Grim Prairie Tales (1990)
R | 86 min | Horror, Western
"Grim Prairie Tales" is a 1990 horror anthology movie where a cynical bounty hunter and a clerk traveling through the prairie rest by the campfire telling four stories of terror to each other.
Director: Wayne Coe | Stars: James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure
Votes: 1,114
42. Dust Devil (1992)
R | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Zakes Mokae, John Matshikiza
Votes: 5,954
43. Mad at the Moon (1992)
R | 98 min | Horror, Romance, Western
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.
Director: Martin Donovan | Stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Hart Bochner, Stephen Blake, Fionnula Flanagan
Votes: 563
44. Silent Tongue (1993)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Western
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.
Director: Sam Shepard | Stars: Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney
Votes: 1,310 | Gross: $0.06M
45. Uninvited (1993)
R | 90 min | Horror, Western
On a cold, eerie evening, on a barren, wind-swept mountainside, a leathery, evil man named Grady brings eight people to their destiny. A priest looking for the money to build a church hides... See full summary »
Director: Michael Derek Bohusz | Stars: Jack Elam, Christopher Boyer, Bari Buckner, Jerry Rector
Votes: 131
46. Ravenous (1999)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies
Votes: 43,269 | Gross: $2.06M
47. Stageghost (2000)
R | 104 min | Thriller, Western
A group of people are trapped inside a stagecoach station under attack by spirits.
Director: Stephen Furst | Stars: Edward Albert, Christopher Atkins, Dana Barron, Mark Brooks
Votes: 140
48. Vampire Junction (2001)
94 min | Horror, Western
Mados, a Reporter in town for an interview gets more than she bargained for at the Vampire Junction.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Samantha Olsen, Lina Romay, Viktor Seastrom, Fata Morgana
Votes: 287
49. Legend of the Phantom Rider (2002)
R | 100 min | Action, Western, Fantasy
Two ancient entities reincarnated through the centuries face off time and again for an innocent soul.
Director: Alex Erkiletian | Stars: Denise Crosby, Robert McRay, Stefan Gierasch, Zen Gesner
Votes: 233
50. The Ghosts of Edendale (2003)
R | 90 min | Horror, Western, Thriller
A young couple moves into a neighborhood obsessed with the frightening silent movie history that took place 80 years before. As the boyfriend also becomes obsessed, it becomes apparent that something more is happening.
Director: Stefan Avalos | Stars: Paula Ficara, Stephen Wastell, Andrew Kirsanov, Keith Fulton
Votes: 481
51. Dead Birds (2004)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller, Western
A group of Confederate soldiers hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
Director: Alex Turner | Stars: Henry Thomas, Patrick Fugit, Nicki Aycox, Michael Shannon
Votes: 11,138
52. The Quick and the Undead (2006)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Horror, Western
Eighty-two years ago a viral outbreak turned three quarters of the world population into the walking dead. Now, Bounty Hunters are humanity's only salvation.
Director: Gerald Nott | Stars: Clint Hummel, Toar Campbell, Dion Day, Nicola Giacobbe
Votes: 1,441
53. Undead or Alive: A Zombedy (2007)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Western
Elmer Winslow is a soldier on the run from the Union Army, and Luke Budd is a cowboy with a broken heart. When the two misfits rob the corrupt sheriff of an old west town, they have no idea that a plague of zombies is sweeping the country, or that Geronimo's sexy niece may be their only hope of survival.
Director: Glasgow Phillips | Stars: Lew Alexander, Todd Anderson, Matt Besser, Chris Coppola
Votes: 2,165
54. BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Fantasy, Western
Rayne, the half-human/half-vampire warrior, ventures to America's 1880's Wild West to stop the vampired Billy the Kid and his posse of vampire cowboys.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Natassia Malthe, Zack Ward, Michael Paré, Chris Coppola
Votes: 11,584
55. Left for Dead (I) (2007)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Western
A desperate criminal and a merciless posse become trapped in a remote Mexican ghost town by a vengeful demon.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: María Alché, Soledad Arocena, Andrés Bagg, Janet Bar Rembaum
Votes: 1,280
56. The Burrowers (2008)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller, Western
In the Wild West a rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers that has vanished from their home under mysterious circumstances.
Director: J.T. Petty | Stars: Clancy Brown, David Busse, Harley Coriz, Jocelin Donahue
Votes: 9,277
57. Fistful of Brains (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Western
The town of Shadowhawk is overrun by zombies when it gets caught in a war between two mysterious brothers. One of the brothers has sold the townsfolk his "magical elixir" promising them ... See full summary »
Director: Christine Parker | Stars: Jaqueline Martini, Conrad Osborne, Edward Warner, Darrell Parker
Votes: 107
58. Blood River (2009)
Not Rated | 104 min | Horror, Thriller, Western
A psychological thriller, which explores the destruction of a young couple's seemingly perfect marriage.
Director: Adam Mason | Stars: Andrew Howard, Tess Panzer, Ian Duncan, Sarah Essex
Votes: 1,485
59. Shroud (2013)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In 1862 a Dutch widow travels to the Old West to discover the fate of her husband and learn the horrible secret of the town in which he died.
Director: David Jetre | Stars: Charles Baker, Dylan Barth, Carlos Benitez, Donnie Blanz
Votes: 46
60. Gun Town (2009)
78 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
A group of friends go on a road trip soon after their high school graduation and get lost in the middle of nowhere. They stumble upon an abandoned Wild West tourist attraction that was ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Vervoort | Stars: Christianna Aronstam, Tim Emery, Lee Vervoort, Andy Grace
Votes: 57
61. Cowboys and Vampires (2010)
TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Dead West - or The Rise of the Horror Genre and the Fall of the Western. The story of a western movie actor (Johnny Dust) still trying to make it big in a western film studio and theme park.
Director: Douglas Myers | Stars: Jasen Wade, Angélica Celaya, Shannon Whirry, Ariel Myers
Votes: 408
62. Gallowwalkers (2012)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A cursed gunman (Snipes) whose victims come back from the dead recruits a young warrior to help in the fight against a gang of zombies.
Director: Andrew Goth | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Kevin Howarth, Riley Smith, Tanit Phoenix
Votes: 8,333
63. Eldorado (2012 Video)
94 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
The Stranger, a tall striking creature dressed in white sets into motions a series of events while reciting the Edgar Allen Poe Poem "Eldorado", which will have an effect on those heading ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Driscoll | Stars: Richard Driscoll, Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, David Carradine
Votes: 530
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