Five Bloody Graves
In its own unique film. For me 'Five bloody graves' was the first Al Adamson film that I consciously watched and remembered (in the past, I kind of watched ' Satan's Sadists' but I don't remember what was going on there).
' Five bloody graves' - an elegiac look at reality ' Beyond the City', ' Beyond the Suez Canal', beyond the other frontiers of civilization. Sketching of bodies in a continuum, and their periodic co-organization for mutual destruction. The space between cities does not obey the secular rules of civilization, in the mythology of the Frontier is the land where the rope and the colt reign. A group of people meet another group of people in the mountains, they together repel the attacks of the Aborigines and try to keep the human character in their circle. The external context does not help.
However, all the words about the plot should stop. The reason for writing the review is how the film was made. Periodically, we are presented with incredible plans, stacked extremely strange: for example, half of the characters are shown, half figures look out from the left side of the frame, half figures from the opposite, and the frame itself is occupied by prairies, rocks ... Most likely, the reason for this framing is not the author’s concept, but simply a file recorded from a cassette or TV screen, where the sides of the picture were cut. But it turned out somehow magical.
What is happening unfolds under a pleasant symphonic-jazz soundtrack, which is so inappropriate in a western in which not such soundscapes are habitual, so inappropriate that paradoxically harmonizes with everything. Apparently, this is one of those films that, like a dream, are not fully understood, but thereby absorb the viewer. Half of the movie you're confused about the characters, but the pace, the tone of the story make up for everything. Strong independent picture. It’s nice to see Carradine’s classic in a small but colorful role. It's a beautiful hour and a half of a great movie.