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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.

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"I taught him everything he knew. I didn't teach him everything *I* knew."

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How do you feel about comic Westerns (a la "Blazing Saddles")?

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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.

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Yeee haaah!

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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

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