Kathryn Bigelow's magnificent Near Dark is a Western-adjacent genre mash-up that springs to mind, originally intended as more Western than vampire, I believe, but pushed by the studio into capitalising on the 1980s bloodsucker revival.
Speaking personally, I love them if they're done well. I'm a big fan of putting humor into anything, because it's how humans cope with fear and trauma.
Kathryn Bigelow's magnificent Near Dark is a Western-adjacent genre mash-up that springs to mind, originally intended as more Western than vampire, I believe, but pushed by the studio into capitalising on the 1980s bloodsucker revival.
"I taught him everything he knew. I didn't teach him everything *I* knew."
How do you feel about comic Westerns (a la "Blazing Saddles")?
Speaking personally, I love them if they're done well. I'm a big fan of putting humor into anything, because it's how humans cope with fear and trauma.
Yeee haaah!
I've been waiting for this homework post:
Here's a resource of American cryptids in video form, done by Wendigoon:
https://youtu.be/7r4VSk4wEdA?si=CT8cR73dvI76Buoy