Into the Badlands | 
| Director: Sam Pillsbury
Actors: Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Helen Hunt, Dylan Mcdermott, Lisa Pelikan
Studio: Good Times Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: $99.00
New (1) Used (3) from $29.90
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 87225
Format: Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 018713810489
EAN: 0018713810489
ASIN: B00004T1JI
Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 1991
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 I really liked this one! June 11, 2009
Hernan Moreno-Hinojosa (Texas)
Bruce Dern is awesome in this movie as the bleak, witty bounty hunter with a dry sense of humor. The story is narrated by none other than Barston, the Bounty-man himself, expertly played by Dern. The tale follows the adventures of the Bounty-man as he hunts down Red Roundtree the `prize' for a reward of $5,000 cash dead or alive. You learn early on that the only way the Bounty-man ever brings `em in is... Dead. And that Sharps .45-70 Buffalo gun insures that! The entire cast is very credible in their respective roles: Dylan McDermott as the `running gun' who has one last chance for love. Blossom is very credibly played by the most attractive Ms. Helen Hunt. And the very beautiful Mariel Hemmingway plays the `suffer-in-silence' frontier wife who proves to be loyal, courageous and quite deadly with a six-gun or rifle. The entire movie is, believe-it-or-not, a series of short-stories coherently strung together and weaves a very entertaining and dark tale. What I liked best about this movie is that the entire cast is very believable making the viewer forget that it never snows in Laredo, the part of Texas where the movie is supposed to take place!
This is a bad a** movie April 27, 2009
Jack L. Williamson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you like westerns, and you like tales from the crypt, this movie is for you. Three tales held together by a common character, and a corpse that won't stay down! this movie is the best!
 Absolutely horrible March 30, 2002
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I like a wide variety of Westerns from the classic Rio Bravo of Howard Hawks to Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, but Into the Badlands is so bad that I threw it away after watching it once. Slick packaging and quality stars entice you to buy the movie. However, multiple story lines have little to do with each other and even fine stars like Bruce Dern, Helen Hunt and Mariel Hemingway can't save this turkey. Dern's character Barston should have saved his bullets to use on the director and screenwriters. The only saving grace was that I was able to use the dustcover for another DVD I have.
A Different, but Enjoyable Western June 9, 2001
Jeffrey A Hamman (Media, PA United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Provocative to say the least. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and bought the DVD to always have it on hand. In this made for TV film, representing a compilation of three short stories, Bruce Dern was exceptional in his role as a bounty hunter. It depicts aspects of bounty hunting ranging from the thrill, to the harsh reality to even the comedic. Although many people did not like the style in which the film was cut, I found its unexpected twists and turns along with its overall mystique very entertaining. The music is very compelling and ties the film together nicely. If you like "high pride" Westerns, this is a must see.
I've seen a lot of weird movies... January 15, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
and this one ranks right up there. The back of the tape describes it as a "surreal western" and that's about right. It includes many characters that die but not really, some unique hallucinations, and narrations that are either creepy or funny depending on your interpretation. My dad bought this one off of a discount rack for $6, thinking it was a normal western. It's really a horror movie, and a weird one at that. My favorite movies are the strange sick ones, so I liked it very much. If you have similar taste, you'll definitely like this one. To classify it as a Western is really ridiculous. It's a few short creepy stories tied in together by one common character, and the fact that it takes place in the old West seems almost incidental. "Normal" people probably wouldn't like this one, and when my parents saw it, they said they couldn't believe that Helen Hunt, Dylan McDermott, and Mariel Hemingway would ever be in it.
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