1.0Humane Hollywoodhttps://humanehollywood.orgHumane Hollywoodhttps://humanehollywood.orgrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="0Jp0KuM4aw"><a href="https://humanehollywood.org/production/into-the-badlands/">Into The Badlands</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://humanehollywood.org/production/into-the-badlands/embed/#?secret=0Jp0KuM4aw" width="600" height="338" title="“Into The Badlands” — Humane Hollywood" data-secret="0Jp0KuM4aw" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://humanehollywood.org/app/uploads/2020/02/dHV8xXCZJbFAS9s4TaKPOS8Jyg0.jpg600900Into the Badlands is a trilogy of Western tales told by a bounty hunter in a style reminiscent of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. These stories take place in the 1870's and each story follows the trail of a bounty hunter who changes the lives of the people he meets while relentlessly pursuing an outlaw. In each story there's an element of the macabre and super-natural. In the words of Barston, the bounty hunter who narrates throughout the film, the Badlands are "places where sensible men never venture...where phantoms walk...way-stations somewhere smack between civilization and the Ninth Circle 'A Hell". The first story follows the trail of John McComas, a fugitive with five hundred dollars being offered for his capture. Sheriff Starett is personally out to get McComas for shooting his brother after he caught McComas stealing a horse. McComas is tired of running and falls in love with a prostitute he meets in the town saloon. The two make plans to meet after dark and escape across the border to a new life in Mexico. An encounter with Starett alters their plans. The second story involves a bizarre bonding that forms between two very different women under harrowing circumstances. Alma, a simple pioneer housewife, rides to the Carstairs' homestead to visit Sarah Carstairs. Sarah's husband had to leave suddenly to see his dying mother in Boston and Alma has promised him she would look in on his wife. The Bostonian woman is patronizing to simple Alma and before long accuses Alma of having an affair with her husband. It is obvious that Sarah is ill, both physically and mentally. Apart from her accusations, she keeps warning of wolves, and before long a wolf appears at their window. The third story is the most violent. Barston, the bounty hunter, is obsessed with tracking down a half-breed Indian named Red Rountree, who has raped and killed a young socialite from a prominent Denver family. The family has offered a bounty of $5,000 dead or alive. He is so obsessed at getting Rountree, that after he shoots him, he lies down next to the dying man and talks him to death. He then loads the dead body onto a wagon but his monologue to the corpse continues. He must verify that he shot the right man, so he stops at a saloon in a ghost town for verification. However, the men there say he didn't shoot the right man, it was a case of mistaken identity and the real Red Rountree is going to come riding into town. Barston is determined to collect his reward and refuses to part with his prize corpse.