A Fistful of Zombies
2012 · 10m · España
Directed by Roberto Julio Álamo
Genres: action, horror, western
In a desolated world, bounty hunter Drake rides his old horse Tombstone capturing criminals and zombies while hunting the mysterious outlaw who murdered his family.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A 10-minute Western-zombie hybrid with a nameless horse and a vengeance plot that refuses to choose between genres—it's the kind of shameless genre collision everyone else would file under 'gimmick' and Felix correctly recognizes as pure subversion.
Álamo's synthesis of frontier mythology with horror iconography demonstrates formal awareness of how these traditions intersect, though the brevity works against the mythic register it's chasing—a promising exercise in genre genealogy that needed another act to settle into its own lineage.
The decision to treat the zombie apocalypse as Western mise-en-scène rather than plot—letting the horse and the wasteland carry the weight instead of exposition—is the kind of formal restraint that transforms a premise with zero budget into something that actually breathes.