Inn of the Damned

2/19/2026

**_Offbeat Western set in rural southeast Australia_** I’ve seen a few Australian Westerns, like “Quigley Down Under” and “The Proposition,” but I’ve never heard of this one, the curiously titled “Inn of the Damned,” which sounds more like a Hammer horror flick. It combines the typical bounty hunter chasing an outlaw angle with elements of “Terror at Red Wolf Inn” from a couple years earlier. There’s also some influence from “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” and Charlton Heston’s underrated “The Call of the Wild,” like the women in the hot tub. The thick accents in the opening turned me off because it was difficult to discern what the characters were saying, but I eventually warmed up to the main story involving an American bounty hunter and his sidekick (played by Alex Cord and Tony Bonner). T