I love a horror Western. There's Bone Tomahawk, The Pale Door, Death Ride In the House of the Vampires - I had to get that in there - and Grim Prairie Tales. Oh yeah, there's also Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter, Curse of the Undead and Billy the Kid versus Dracula. Soem of my favorite Italian Westerns have a horror element to them, like Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! And And God Said to Cain.

This movie feels like it was meant for me.

Do you want a Western with Jack the Ripper leaving England for the Wild West? And what if he dresses like a slasher killer and has talks with himself about purifying women? Wouldn't that be awesome? Maybe more awesome than A Knife for the Ladies.

But what if Jack the Ripper battled a man named Mr. Buchinski who looked just like Charles Bronson because he's played by Robert Bronzi, a sixtysomething Hungarian action star who was born Robert Kovacs. The man who would be Bronzi was performing in a European Wild West stage show when director Rene Perez saw his photo on the wall of a bar and thought it was from an undiscovered Bronson movie. Since then, he's been in Death Kiss, Cry Havoc, Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, Exorcist Vengeance, Escape from Death Block 13 and this Western.

If you didn't get the significance, Bronson's real name was Charles Dennis Buchinsky.

A lot of the female cast of this were also victims in another movie by Rene Perez, Playing With Dolls: Havoc. Perez also made the movies They Want Us Woke Not Awake and Pro God - Pro Gun, so I have to track those down because, yeah. Wow. Also: that Havoc serial killer is also in Cry Havoc where we can answer "What if Jason fought Bronson?"

The killer might be Francis Tumblety who some people think was the Ripper. He did not look like a slasher villain but who are we to try and bring logic into a movie where a fake Bronson battles a monster in a tourist Western town? Also, the Ripper wears a mask like Cronenberg in Nightbreed.

You won't care about anyone in this by Bronzi. Such is his power. But seriously, nobody really matters. This should have just been an hour of Bronzi shooting guns at a serial killer.

Good idea for a story. Horribe directing, acting, editing, make up, and soundtrack ruined this film. Can an ACTUAL director and producer please see this and make this film what it deserves to be. Rene Perez, please, stop making movies. You're obviously not good at it.

The premise of "Death Kiss" director Rene Perez's East Meets West oater "From Hell to the Wild West" is that Jack the Ripper stopped eviscerating prostitutes in London, England, because the police were on his track, so he uprooted himself and relocated to the Wild West. In a contemporary subplot, a student stumbles onto this idea while reading a diary. Of course, a history professor remain about her scholarship, but he comes around to it gradually as they discuss the possibility. Meanwhile, back to the 19th century American West, we have an armed and dangerous stranger (Robert Bronzi of "Death Kiss") is on the Ripper's trail. The Ripper (Charlie Glackin of "Prey for Death") lures desperate women to an abandoned mining town, so he can kill them. Interestingly enough, the Stranger is implicated in all the grisly deaths. At one point, a lawman tried to arrest him as he was shadowing the Ripper. The lawman intervened and tried to arrest the Stranger, while the Ripper caught a Mexican woman by herself at a stream washing dishes. When the Ripper goes about his nefarious work, he wears a burlap bag over his head. The burlap bag is pretty creepy, and it reminded me of the villainous psychiatrist in "Batman Begins" who utilized a similar mask to intimidate hostages. It looks like a man who has had an autopsy on his face. The powerfully built Ripper overwhelms, tortures, kills, and then collects trophies from his victims. When goes into slasher mode, the Ripper wields a meat cleaver with considerable gusto.

The big problem with "From Hell to the Wild West" is the long stretches of screen time when Charles Bronson lookalike actor Robert Bronzi is off-screen. Perez tries to surprise and distract us with a subplot about a lady Lynn (Sammy Durrani of "Throwdown") and her African American servant girl, Hannah (Alanna Forte of "Little Red Riding Hood"), who visit the remote mining town in search of employment as hostess in a saloon. The lady bares a grudge against her dutiful servant, because the black girl had a sexual relationship with her husband. Eventually, the Stranger joins forces with a lawman, Marshall Patterson (Colin Bryant of "Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust"), who knows that he didn't commit the heinous crimes. While all this is going on, the Stranger has to elude three killers. There is an interesting scene in a jail cell where the imprisoned lady uses a severed arm to reach for a set of keys that will unlock an ankle shackle.

The best thing that Perez does is show the Stranger shooting it out with the three vengeance-driven gunslingers on his trail throughout the film. He proves himself to be an excellent marksman as he eliminates the opposition. Although he doesn't have much characterization to work, Bronzi is the best thing about this hybrid historical western. Not all the acting is substandard. For the record, Hannah kills the Ripper finally after the heroic Stranger plugs him in the back, and then she finishes him off. Ultimately, the history professor believes that his student has a plausible premise. The familiar looking location known as Bandit Town, USA, served as the setting for the mining town. Perez used this same location as the town of Deadwood in "Once Upon A Time in Deadwood." Clocking in at concise 77 minutes, "From Hell to the Wild West" gets by on bits and pieces.