From Hell to the Wild West (2017) User Reviews

Yeah, this was a swing and a miss...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 23 May 2020]

Right, well the reason for why I sat down to watch the 2017 movie "From Hell to the Wild West" from writer and director Rene Perez wasn't really because it was a western movie. No, I sat down to watch this solely because of Robert Bronzi - as he looks a lot like Charles Bronson, so it is oddly enjoyable to watch him on the screen actually.

I didn't have much of any expectations to the movie given the title and given the fact that it was a horror movie set in a western setting. That usually is not a great combo in my opinion. But still, I hadn't seen the movie before, so I sat down to watch it.

Well, let's just say that you are not missing out on a great slice of cinematic history if you don't watch "From Hell to the Wild West". This movie was boring, mundane and generic. And the plot and storyline wasn't really much of anything appealing. It was, at a lack for better words, simplistic.

The acting was as to be expected for a movie such as this. Needless to say more.

The horror aspect of the movie was just boring and quite far from being scary or interesting. And the killer was just so bland that it wasn't memorable. This is not going to be a new Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger.

As for the special effects in "From Hell to the Wild West", well lets just say that they were there. They weren't good, and the blood effects when people got shot or hacked into was just atrociously bad. Well, at least that had me laughing, so that had to count for something.

My rating of "From Hell to the Wild West" is a three out of ten stars, solely granted because of the production level of the movie and because Robert Bronzi was in it.

Hostess wanted

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 4 March 2018]

The film moves between modern times and the past, a frequent technique used by master film maker Rene Perez. It also appears he has one prop, a burlap mask that he uses in his films. From the film, Jack the Ripper left London and went to California. Rene, likes to rip the tops off of women in his films. He manages to find a Charles Bronson clone to star in the film. The sound effects person went a little overboard in the beginning as the movement of branches didn't match up with the added effect.

Comically bad.

Nudity (Karin Brauns, Alanna Forte....I think)

Just. Freaking. Why?

[dimitrimelnikoff · 2/10 · 7 January 2021]

Good idea for a story. Horribe directing, acting, editing, make up, and soundtrack ruined this film. Can an ACTUAL director and producer please see this and make this film what it deserves to be. Rene Perez, please, stop making movies. You're obviously not good at it.

An Honest Review

[generationofswine · 1/10 · 4 December 2018]

Now, I have given a LOT of horrible movies 10 Stars on the basis that they entertain. But the only thing I can say about this is that it was in focus.

The acting was horrible. And the flashback scenes looked like the present. When it opened, I thought it took place in a Wild West tourist trap and not the actual Wild West.

The acting was horrible, but I'm not sure if you can blame the actors because the dialogue was so awful that it sounded like they were reading stereo instructions.

It was just a train wreck of a film from start to finish. Unimaginative, even for a horror movie with a decent premise.

A forgettable movie.

[poormoviedirector-12345 · 1/10 · 8 September 2018]

Not worth your time. But if you want to try it, then use the Fast-Forward control to make it more tolerable. The story is weak, the dialongs are monotonous, the action scenes are boring, the photography is bad, and the list goes on. Most of the movie could have been edited down into 15 (bad) minutes. I watched this junk only because I was curious about the Bronson look-alike (obviously the director was counting on that.)

Go West, Jack the Ripper!!!

[zardoz-13 · 5/10 · 17 December 2019]

The premise of "Death Kiss" director Rene Perez's East Meets West oater "From Hell to the Wild West" is that Jack the Ripper stopped eviscerating prostitutes in London, England, because the police were on his track, so he uprooted himself and relocated to the Wild West. In a contemporary subplot, a student stumbles onto this idea while reading a diary. Of course, a history professor remain about her scholarship, but he comes around to it gradually as they discuss the possibility. Meanwhile, back to the 19th century American West, we have an armed and dangerous stranger (Robert Bronzi of "Death Kiss") is on the Ripper's trail. The Ripper (Charlie Glackin of "Prey for Death") lures desperate women to an abandoned mining town, so he can kill them. Interestingly enough, the Stranger is implicated in all the grisly deaths. At one point, a lawman tried to arrest him as he was shadowing the Ripper. The lawman intervened and tried to arrest the Stranger, while the Ripper caught a Mexican woman by herself at a stream washing dishes. When the Ripper goes about his nefarious work, he wears a burlap bag over his head. The burlap bag is pretty creepy, and it reminded me of the villainous psychiatrist in "Batman Begins" who utilized a similar mask to intimidate hostages. It looks like a man who has had an autopsy on his face. The powerfully built Ripper overwhelms, tortures, kills, and then collects trophies from his victims. When goes into slasher mode, the Ripper wields a meat cleaver with considerable gusto.

The big problem with "From Hell to the Wild West" is the long stretches of screen time when Charles Bronson lookalike actor Robert Bronzi is off-screen. Perez tries to surprise and distract us with a subplot about a lady Lynn (Sammy Durrani of "Throwdown") and her African American servant girl, Hannah (Alanna Forte of "Little Red Riding Hood"), who visit the remote mining town in search of employment as hostess in a saloon. The lady bares a grudge against her dutiful servant, because the black girl had a sexual relationship with her husband. Eventually, the Stranger joins forces with a lawman, Marshall Patterson (Colin Bryant of "Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust"), who knows that he didn't commit the heinous crimes. While all this is going on, the Stranger has to elude three killers. There is an interesting scene in a jail cell where the imprisoned lady uses a severed arm to reach for a set of keys that will unlock an ankle shackle.

The best thing that Perez does is show the Stranger shooting it out with the three vengeance-driven gunslingers on his trail throughout the film. He proves himself to be an excellent marksman as he eliminates the opposition. Although he doesn't have much characterization to work, Bronzi is the best thing about this hybrid historical western. Not all the acting is substandard. For the record, Hannah kills the Ripper finally after the heroic Stranger plugs him in the back, and then she finishes him off. Ultimately, the history professor believes that his student has a plausible premise. The familiar looking location known as Bandit Town, USA, served as the setting for the mining town. Perez used this same location as the town of Deadwood in "Once Upon A Time in Deadwood." Clocking in at concise 77 minutes, "From Hell to the Wild West" gets by on bits and pieces.