'The Pale Door': Film Review

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The outlaw Dalton Gang battle a coven of witches in Aaron B. Koontz's horror/Western hybrid.

The legendary Western outlaws known as the Dalton Gang have long been a subject of popular culture. But despite their criminal misdeeds, they deserve better treatment than the new"horror/Western" directed by Aaron B. Koontz , in which a heavily fictionalized version of the gang fight for their lives against a coven of witches.

The job turns out to be the robbery of a train supposedly transporting a trunk filled with riches. Unfortunately, it doesn't go as planned, with Duncan seriously wounded and the trunk containing neither gold nor cash but rather a young woman, Pearl , who promises the bandits that if they return her to her hometown they'll receive medical attention and a reward for their troubles.

That reward turns out to be of the carnal variety, since the desolate ghost town contains little more than a brothel run by Maria . The men partake of the offerings, with the exception of the wounded Duncan and Jake, who confesses that he's still a virgin.-style territory, with Maria revealing her true identity as a witch who was burned alive at the stake two centuries earlier by no less an important historical figure than Cotton Mather.

It doesn't help that the witches seem to possess enough different horrific aspects to fill a dozen such films.Only slightly more persuasive as horror than oater — you'll see more convincing Western characters and gun battles in a ghost town theme park — the film at least benefits from the comforting presence of some veteran character actors including Stan Shaw (

 

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