Nightmare Fuel / High Plains Drifter

• The fact that our protagonist rapes a woman in the first fifteen minutes. The movie also continually brings up the fact that Callie is, justifiably, traumatized by it.
  • The townsfolk's complete ambivalence to it is also horrifying in its believability.
• The death of Marshal Jim Duncan. Something about him being whipped to death by three criminals, in front of Townspeople that do nothing, is just unnerving enough. However he literally curses them before death.
  Marshal Jim Duncan: DAMN YOU TO HELL!!
• The climax of the film: when The Stranger singles out Stacey Bridges, he whispers "Help me" to get his attention— in the exact voice of the dead marshal.
• The music is pretty haunting for a western, sounding almost like ghostly, mournful wailing in parts.

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