$10,000 for a Massacre (1967) (2024)

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• Review by Slig001 ★★★½

  Ten thousand dollars. The price of a massacre; the price of blood and death. The film explores the central concept of "blood money" - the bounty for killing, the blood cost of stealing gold, the collareral damage of losing a loved one. Killers happy to take lives, only to feel the same fear as anyone else when they are the ones affected. $10,000 Blood Money is, naturally, highly derivative of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, though makes an attempt to dig a little deeper into the darkness of the concepts, somewhat at the expense of entetainment value. Gianni Garko's Django is highly capable but something of a tortured soul; attempting to ply his trade in an almost moralistic manner - though…

• Review by RanchoTuVu ★★★★

  When it comes to Gianni Garko and Claudio Camaso, they're both pretty cool and operate within the twisted societal context of the West that are hallmarks of these films. You just have to dig the saloon scenes, the card games, and the knife throws. Fernando Sancho emerges well into the film as Camaso's dad, known as Stardust for the tin stars of the sheriffs that he wears on his vest. It's perfection when the three of them are finally in the same scene, sharing a meal in a moment of great cinema. The real show-stopper is Loredana Nusciak who plays proprietess of the saloon. They weave her character in quite well and she's the pivot for the drama to swirl around. A pretty tough film all around.

• Review by Blair Russell ★★★½ 2

  This is one of those films where you don’t want to read the plot description beforehand; OK, the one on Arrow’s streaming site (where I saw the flick last night) is ambiguous enough but the ones on IMDb and even Letterboxd itself give too much away. While there was 1966’s Django and 1987’s Django Strikes Again-yes, there was one official Django sequel which starred Franco Nero; I don’t blame most for not knowing this as it probably wasn’t until a year ago that I discovered this fact-the film sometimes known as $10,000 Blood Money is one of many that had a character w/ this name. It happened to be played by Gianni Garko here, best known for his takes on…

• Review by sakana1 ★★★

  Spoilers ahead.

  Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre* makes the most overt connection yet between killing in the name of the law and outright criminality, when charismatic bandit Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso) amusedly tells bounty killer Django (Gianni Garko): "You kill people for money, like me. The two of us, we are like merchants, dealing in blood." Django is a lot of things, but he's also a man of a very specific, warped morality, and he knows enough not to argue with Manuel on this point. In fact, the conversation ends with Django teaming up with the bandit and his gang to rob a stagecoach full of gold. As the saying goes: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

  Of…

• Review by COBB ★★★½

  Watching Eurowesterns every now and then you find works that tend towards atmospheric, almost dreamlike, ghostly vibes that is a blast.

  Romolo Guerrieri's $10,000 for a Massacre has almost everything you could ask for in a Django spin-off: bounty hunters, dusty sets, gunfights, mud, gold and even Fernando Sancho. And it also adds that touch I was talking about before plus a tragic tone that, together with some unexpected twists, make for a well-rounded work, which I think will be enjoyable not only for fans of the genre.

  On another note, the mascara and eyeliner budget goes through the roof in this one.

• Review by Gentry ★★★½

  “I’m not ready to make love and see you die.”

  Name another Euro western where the protagonist cries. Gianni Garko in eyeliner, good with a gun vs. Claudio Camaso¹ in eyeliner, calm and sadistic. Camaso as the bandit Manuel definitely has similar mannerisms to his brother, Gian Maria Volante, right down to the slow head turn, and the scary sexual charm.

  Our not-exactly Django’s mission is to hunt him down, and bring back the daughter he has kidnapped. But Garko’s Django is not interested until the “three-bill bandit’s” bounty jumps to ten. As these things often go, our antihero is gravely injured early on, is saved by a comical traveler (in this case, Fidel the caretaker), recovers and enacts revenge.…

• Review by Gentry ★★★½

  "Not meant to be related to the character that Franco Nero played in any way at all."

  🗣️ Watched with audio commentary by Lee Broughton

  What’s greater than a few dollars? How about $10,000? Lee is an encyclopedia of Euro western knowledge, placing $10,000 Blood Money in both the Django and Bounty Hunter (inspired by For a Few Dollars More) sub-cycles within the broader Spaghetti Western filone. Lee has a very monotone voice, sometimes sinks into “reading of the IMDB credits” at times, and seems preoccupied with finding parallels between this film and the two Arizona Colt films, but his passion for the genre still comes through, and I feel like I learned something so, thumbs up from me. More thoughts back here

• Review by MidLevelMR ★★★★

  Operates as a kind of sequel to the original Django, this film sets up its hero and villian very well, while also providing enough twists and turns along the way to keep it interesting until the very end. Great direction and creative action set pieces make this an unforgettable journey in the spaghetti western genre.

• Review by Mark Costello ★★★

  From screenwriting legend Ernesto Gastaldi (and a raft of others) and director Romolo Guerrieri comes a taut, laser-focussed unofficial Django sequel that sadly sacrifices the more fun and largesse elements the best of the genre came to be known for, in the name of some ambitious yet clunky character work.

  Ex-Sartana Gianni Garko is our magnificently hatted bounty hunter, only forced into hunting down kidnapper and all-round bad egg Claudio Camaso when the price on his head reaches the titular levels. Then it’s simply a case of getting out of the way of these two as they hunt each other down, almost reluctantly as they begrudgingly come to realise how similar they both are.

  The opening act is guilty of…

• Review by TheDionysiac

  "Passionate - Violent - the man with no heart - his price... 10,000 Dollars Blood Money"

  Working my way through my collection and starting at the top.

  Some thoughts watching this for the first time:

  * Gianni Garko (known for his work as Sartana) playing a fine Django (since Franco Nero never bothered to do so again) in Romolo Guerrieri's third and final western '10.000 dollari per un massacro' (after directing both 'Johnny Yuma' and 'Seven Guns for Timothy' just the year before).

  * Nora Orlandi doing a wonderful Morricone-homage with the score giving the exact vibes you are looking for in a proper Italo-Western.

  * Loredana Nusciak shows up playing a smiliar role that she did in the original…

• Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  Very cruel with a terrific villain and a very careful imagined world. Garko is unusual passive in the lead, an American vulture in the middle of a Mexican story, but his recessive presence serves the film stronger suits well. The focus on the aftermath of violence is impressive.

• Review by trillietitan 5

  Arrow Video has put out several different boxsets of lesser-known spaghetti westerns over the course of the last couple of years. I watched the first collection, Vengeance Trails, last night, and I found myself pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of the included titles. The genre tends to be pretty entertaining, even in its most mediocre installments, so I was confident that I would enjoy myself no matter what-- but I certainly didn't expect to find a couple of films that would become strong contenders for some of my favorite spaghetti westerns of all time.

  The standard set by that collection means that both of the follow-ups have a lot to live up to, and I went into the second…