{"id":641,"date":"2008-05-02T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/gallowwalker\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T04:37:37","slug":"gallowwalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/gallowwalker\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallowwalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot that&#8217;s attractive about films that attempt to combine zombies and an &#8220;Old West&#8221; setting, though to date no one has succeeded in capturing the essence of an undead western mythos as well as Joe Lansdale in his &#8220;Dead in the West&#8221; novel and graphic novels.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dead-in-the-west.jpg\" title=\"Dead in the West cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dead-in-the-west.jpg\" alt=\"Dead in the West cover\" height=\"436\" width=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this new film will be an exception:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallowwalker<\/strong> (US\/UK-2009; dir. Andrew Goth)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A mysterious gunman, Aman, is the son of a nun who breaks her covenant with God to ensure his survival. This act brings a curse upon Aman &#8211; all those that die by his gun will return. Soon, he is hunted by a gang of his undead former victims, led by the vicious Kansa. Aman enlists Fabulos, a new young warrior, to fight by his side. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0829176\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following trailer has just been posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreadcentral.com\/node\/26918\" target=\"_blank\">DreadCentral<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.brightcove.tv\/playerswf\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashvars=\"initVideoId=1531283313&amp;servicesURL=http:\/\/www.brightcove.tv&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/www.brightcove.tv&amp;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&amp;autoStart=false\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"bcPlayer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swliveconnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" height=\"412\" width=\"486\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the film, which stars Wesley Snipes as Aman) may be a change from the standard presentation of zombie tropes (not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with those &#8230;.).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallowwalker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot that&#8217;s attractive about films that attempt to combine zombies and an &#8220;Old West&#8221; setting, though to date no one has succeeded in capturing the essence of an undead western mythos as well as Joe Lansdale in his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/gallowwalker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,26,50,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}