Cowboys & Zombies is set in 1849 & starts as a bounty hunter named Mortimer (David A. Lockhart) sets out to find & capture an Indian named Brother Wolf (Rick Mora) who is wanted for rape & murder but has a $1,000 reward on his head. Mortimer doesn't have much trouble finding where Brother Wolf lives & uses a woman named Rhiannon (Camille Montgomery) as bait to lure him out into the open, meanwhile in a small town called Jaemstown the locals are puzzled over a large green glowing rock that they find nearby, as they try to break it open a strange green gas full of spores escape & infect the entire town who turn into flesh eating zombies. Mortimer manages to capture Brother Wolf & handcuff him, heading back to town with Rhiannon the three are attacked by the flesh eating zombies & quickly realise that they are everywhere & that they must work together to survive...Edited, written & directed by Rene Perez who also gets a co-credit for the music one has to say that while Cowboys & Zombies is far from great it could have been worse I suppose, originally called The Dead and the Damned the title was obviously changed to Cowboys & Zombies to cash-in on the big budget Coyboys & Aliens (2011) which was released at the same time. What we have here is a script that takes the western & horror genres (which, according to a recent study are two of the three least successful film genres when it comes to making money with the other being thriller's) & mixes them together, it doesn't even try to do anything particularly new with the genres either. I mean the story about some bounty hunter in the Wild West capturing & trying to bring in a prisoner for money is nothing new neither is the flesh eating zombie film, is it? To be fair to it the script does a reasonable job here, at a thankfully short 80 minutes it moves along at a decent pace & while there's no great reasoning behind anything the character's are slightly better than usual although the fact that the captor & his prey team up & work together is totally predictable & the ending isn't what you would expect. The script takes itself pretty seriously, while many of these genre mash-ups plant their tongue in their cheeks & lay on the slapstick & silliness with a trowel Cowboys & Zombies plays it fairly straight which will appeal to some but maybe not to other's.The whole film looks quite cheap but I suppose you have to give the makers some credit for trying to make such an ambitious film, I mean the western setting & period clothes & props to the zombie make-up & gore effects. It all costs money & to be fair while Cowboys & Zombies doesn't have that big budget Hollywood slickness the majority of it looks alright & could have been worse. The zombie make-up & gore is alright but nothing more, none of the zombies are ever really seen in close-up & I am sure that was deliberate. The gore is sparse, there's a ripped-off leg & arm, someone's heart is bitten out & there are a few bloody gunshot wounds but not much else.According to the IMDb this had a budget of about $30,000 which is low even by low budget horror standards, the fact that the makers managed to make this on that low amount is impressive in itself (if it's true...), forget about the DVD cover as well Cowboys & Zombies is not Deadwood with zombies & there's no tough looking guy with a beard & rifle. The acting is alright, nothing more nothing less really.Cowboys & Zombies is a western & zombie film mixture that still feels unoriginal, the lack of any great gore or scares doesn't help neither does the uneven tone in which the first half is almost pure western while the second is almost total zombie horror. Not terrible but not great either.

Really, what dd you expect? This was an indie film done by mostly local people with tiny budget. You go into this film without much expectation and it doesn't disappoint. Perez has put together a showcase of his talents as a young filmmaker and this film is merely him cutting his teeth. He shows promise with the action scenes, but the story line is generic. The actors ... well ... let's just say it seems the cast and crew had fun making this. The post-production effects are elementary, the make-up actually inspired (the high point of the film) and the boobs are, well, epic. What can I say; I'm a guy. If your goal it to watch zombie movies, make sure this one is on your list. You can make it fun by having a drinking game related to the anachronisms (I see plywood ... drink!).

This was great, much better than expected with a cliché title like that. Follows the classic western plot of bounty hunter with a past and a purpose chasing wanted man who is actually innocent. They of course end up teaming up, though the end is surprising. Various horror movie gratuitous nudity shots, spying on woman bathing, and running through forest with top falling open, all classic horror scenes. As I said, I was really surprised at how good this was, although it should be noted that he left town on a horse with a full stripe on it's face, then camped with a horse with only a star, but had the full stripe when he reached town again. They were also different colours. I didn't notice, but my wife pointed it out to me. Also the bush tracks were often graded roads and some had wheel tracks. Better than some of the crap I've watched lately.

after the watching super 8 last night and struggling to stay awake through a group of stupid kids running around a one horse town this film made a refreshing change yes it is low budget but that is part of the appeal and the guns well i reckon they are the most realistic sounding guns that i have seen and heard when you remember its what they had in the real wild west zombies looked good and just enough story line to keep it entertaining right to the end, well done and certainly worth a watch. i have found many films like this are more enjoyable than the so called big movies which for some reason get rave reviews no matter how bad they are, a movie is about some time out from reality for relaxation and entertainment and this is both, well done what happened to the horse lol