Y la muerte lo seguía
2011 · 21m · España
Directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández
Genres: horror, thriller, western
Tones: contemplative, dark, mythic
Around a campfire, an old Native American tells young Johnny the story of Fred Carlson's two-year pursuit of his wife's murderer, ending in the mysterious settlement of Arkham where revenge will be consummated.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A Western that refuses to be a Western—the revenge narrative gets folded into Lovecraftian horror via a campfire frame that treats pulp mythology as genuine ethnographic testimony. Most scouts would hedge on the genre mashup; Felix watches it twice.
The film's self-aware positioning within dual traditions (frontier narrative, cosmic horror) shows formal literacy, though the uneasy tonal blend between mythic storytelling and genre spectacle leaves the architectural seams slightly exposed.
The decision to nest the entire revenge plot inside a Native American elder's voice—making the listener's credulity the actual subject—reframes what could've been a straightforward thriller into something much stranger with minimal resources.