Adolfo Lastretti, Bruno Corazzari, Fabio Testi

One of filmmaker Lucio Fulci's most explosive spaghetti Westerns, Four of the Apocalypse is now available in its original, uncut version with Fabio Testi in the role of Stubby Preston, a gambler who l...( read more  read more... )eads a pack of renegades in search of freedom and reinvention. Only the villainous Chaco can run them off their path, roping them into a game of cat and mouse in the middle of a desolate and dangerous land.

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Unrated, 80 min.

Directed by: Lucio Fulci

Release Date: August 12, 1975

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DVD Release Date: February 10, 2004

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  • August 20, 2009
    A very particular, shocking on-the-road spaghetti-western, with a total badass villain divinely played by my beloved Tomas Milian, who based his character Chaco on Charles Manson.
    Fulci once again manages to surprise with an original and impressive film, in which moments of cru...( read more)de violence are strongly in contrast with the lyricism and romanticism of some scenes. I'll have to see the fully uncut version to give it a more proper rating, though.
  • June 25, 2007
    Goofy, interesting western from Fulci (is it me or did ALL Italian genre filmmakers eventually make a western?) has a plot that doesn't make a lick of sense, a good cast and some really gruesome moments here and there. Like all Fulci films, the female lead is humiliated along th...( read more)e way but we are treated to a simply great performance from Tomas Milon for compensation(although he's not in it as much as one would hope.) Anyway, it's not a bad Italian western at all, it's just... a bit nonsensical and stupid at times (what's with the ending with that dog? I found myself actually laughing at that moment, when one should be devastated by all the senseless tragedy.) Check it out if you're a Fulci or Italian Western fan...
  • September 15, 2007
    An amazing spagetti western by a horror director.
  • February 22, 2007
    The Maestro's western, and it's really quite good. Though very downbeat and vicious it's a well told story with a great performance from the villain.
  • October 14, 2009
    A bit of a mixed bag with this one. Its a damn good movie thats bogged down by one of the worst spaghetti western scores ive ever heard in my life. And its composed by three rather competant fellows, Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio and Vince Tempera. Its rather 70's rock-folk in a bad...( read more) way. There are some cool orchestral pieces but the sung songs really annoy!
    This ones got a great cast with Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian and the very underrated genius of Michael J Pollard. Pollard i felt was underused and so was Milian's character. Milian says he was cast to cash in on his name. Although his role is great and he does sadistic almost too well. He has some of his finest moments here when playing off of Pollard.
    Fulci is an amazing director and this film is full of trademark Fulci style thanks in part to cinematographer, and Fulci regular, Sergio Salvati. From the soft interior lighting to the close up shots.
    This is a pretty surreal film for Fulci.. It seems he could not make up his mind were he wanted this one to go atmospherically. The last act stalls and looses pace when we spend waay too much time in snowbound mining town were there is no woman in sight and the men like it that way. The last 7 minutes make up for it though.
  • August 19, 2008
    May have to watch it again.
  • February 15, 2008
    A very disturbing, very emotionally-charged late entry in the spaghetti western genre by Italian gore-maestro Lucio Fulci. The light-rock songs are a bit off-putting, but quailty nonetheless. Tomas Milian turns in his best performance as the vicious Chaco. This movie needs to be ...( read more)a lot better known and regarded.
  • December 16, 2007
    Downtrotten western yarn atypical of most of it's spinning. Even though villain Chaco got his just desserts this is hardly a hero's tale; bleak even in the sight of birth. Props to Fulci
  • August 6, 2007
    Tomas Milian rules as a Mexican Charles Manson. Lots of gore and rape. Top shelf. I generally find Fulci's stuff to be pretty hit or miss, but he does good here. The pregnent chick is pretty hot too.
  • July 11, 2007
    An atypical western that Fulci pulls off amazingly. It's endearing, yet sorrowful and very much about struggle. Tomas Milian as the Charles Manson-esque character is freaking scary and Lynne Frederick is so sympathetic and vulnerable here. Fabio Testi's face is a little blank her...( read more)e and there, but it seems to be sort of in awe of the events he sees around him. He's stunned and his mind is just storing it away for traumatic future days to come in his life. A personal apocalypse for the four "outcasts of society" is really what the title refers to. Good stuff.

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