High Plains Drifter - Film Review
July 10th, 2008 by Robert
You could miss it if you weren’t paying enough attention, but Clint Eastwood’s highly atmospheric 1973 film, High Plains Drifter, is as much supernatural thriller as hard-bitten western. To an eerie soundtrack reminiscent of horror films, The Stranger materialises from the desert to wreak vengeance on the inhabitants of the desolate township of Lago for their previous sins. Is he a man, or a ghost? Read the rest of this entry »
Beautifully shot but brutal. I’m not sure Nick Cave’s screenplay successfully tells the story he wanted it to - many of the characters’ actions and motivations seem unfathomable, and ultimately you wonder what the point is supposed to be.