It’s how the west was won… in our imaginations. Geek culture has always loved melding two popular genres together to make fun mashups, and the Western needed a kick in the pants anyway. This is why we’ve seen an interesting sub-genre that we like to call “Wild Weird Westerns” arise — a blend of the Western, science fiction, steampunk, and just plain oddness.

Cowboys and six-shooters are just fine, but add an alien or rampaging steam-driven robot? That’s when we’ve reached flavor country, pardners!

So join us this week as Mutant Reviewers explores the Wild Weird West of film folklore. It’ll be a trip!