Unfortunately, the writing and directing were sophomoric:
1. Dialogue: If you're making a film set in a certain time period, then put some effort into writing period-appropriate dialogue. If you're unfamiliar with the language and idioms of the time, then hire someone to polish your script. The verbal anachronisms really detracted from a potentially-awesome film.
2. Use period-appropriate location names. And if you throw in a random historical figure, do a little research. This film came across as an attempt to gain credibility by tossing in a few names a viewer might recognize from High School. They were so jarringly out of place that they actually of ruined any semblance of verisimilitude or believability.
3. Shakey-cam doesn't make your scenes more exciting: it makes your "action" harder to follow. Unless you're making some sort of found-footage film, use SteadiCams, or some other, stable, equipment. The industry spent more than half a century developing that technology for a reason. Use it!
Overall, it came across as a pretty good first attempt by a High School student. Too bad it wasn't marketed as such. I am disappointed that Shudder allowed their name to be associated with such drek.
Keith Lansdale is hitting the scene with comics, books, an episode of the recent Creepshow, and now wrote and brought us a weird western movie. I like westerns and I like the supernatural. They make a great combination in this movie. The creatures are well done and creepy. I enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to future work by Keith Lansdale in whatever format.
If you like Supernatural Westerns you will like this flick. Enjoyed it quite a lot. Just got done watching it. Would be great teamed up with Bone Tomahawk or Dead Birds.