Partner, I reckon you’d better be ready to jump right out of your skin when you watch the terrifying western horror movie A Town Called Purgatory, directed by Matt Servitto with a screenplay by Dan De Luca based on a story by Ken Arnold. Far out west, Pinkerton detective Beau Riffen (Ken Arnold) is on the trail of the dastardly outlaw Frank Sparks (Matt Servitto) and his no-good sons, John (Sam Kozeluh) and Henry (Claudius von Stolzmann). They are all wanted for robbery and murder, so Beau has hired two extra guns for the hunt: ex-confederate tracker Cody Parnum (Dan De Luca) and Ezera Beckett (Zach Steffey).
One night around the fire, while Ezera is chewing up the night air with his incessant chatter, Cody and Beau hear something creeping around behind the undergrowth. Then their horses go loose, and they realize they are as f****d as foxes in a forest fire. Ezera takes up first watch against the noises in the dark. Com,e light Ezera is gone.
“The shaman summoned a skinwalker… to bring bloody vengeance down on Purgatory”
Beau and Cody wander into the closest town, Purgatory, but the whole place is deserted. All the buildings are empty; it is like the entire town has up and left. The only people there are blacksmith Nicodemus Black (Kevin Jiggetts), back in the stables, and the Reverend Silas Fist (Jeff Ricketts), locked in the town jail.
They then find Anna Place (Maria Lohn), the village outcast, hiding in the saloon. Anna let’s them know the town was cursed by a Navajo shaman when his teenage daughter, Ajel Moon-Shadow (Cat Jimenez) was found raped and murdered there. The shaman summoned a skinwalker (Oliver Kasiske), a horrible shapeshifting demon, to bring bloody vengeance down on Purgatory. It only comes out at night, and the sun is now setting…
"…a grand film that does both the western and horror picture proud."
