Directed by JT Mollner
A gang of cold-blooded outlaws narrowly escapes a blood-soaked bank robbery in a grimy frontier town. With a notorious bounty hunter hot on their trail, these nefarious criminals desperately need a place to hide out before night falls. Fate brings them to the home of the Tildons, a seemingly innocent family with two feisty daughters. As the men settle in, an impetuous game of cat and mouse plays out during the cold, black night. Come morning, nothing will ever be the same.
Redwire Pictures Jeff Rice Films Casadelic Pictures Avery Productions New Golden Age Films No Remake Pictures Orion Pictures
Ángeles y forajidos, Angyalok és banditák, Psanci a andělé, Criminosos e Anjos, פושעים ומלאכים, Haydutlar ve Melekler, 亡命徒与天使, Bandyci i aniołki, Грешники и праведники, 亡命徒與天使, Štvanci a anjeli, 무법자와 천사들, Haiducii și îngerii
USA Sundance Film Festival 
Sweden15 
UK18 Sweden UK USA 
Strange Darling - one of my favorite films of 2024 - made me an instant fan of director JT Mollner. I decided to watch his first movie, and in retrospect, maybe I shouldn't have. It thinks it's much more clever than it really is. Imagine a Quentin Tarantino movie without the dialogue. It's an annoyingly violent picture that revels in violence and nothing else. Mollner seems to know what he wants to do but didn't have the ability to do so. He learned with Strange Darling and thank the movie gods for that. I couldn't sit through another flick like this.
Yikes! You know when a movie tries too hard to be "art-house" cool? Well, if you don't, let me introduce you to JT Mollner's Outlaws and Angels. A western, about some outlaws and maybe some angels, too.
I only watched this because of Chad Michael Murray. He's cool as hell with his badass beard, and a badderass facial scar. I was also interested in Clint Eastwood's daughter, Francesca Eastwood. She's okay, but damn, I wish the movie wasn't so realistic when it comes to rotten teeth. You think a methhead has bad teeth? These people make George Washington appear like Joel Osteen. (Please tell me at least someone understands that analogy.)
There's slow, then there's Outlaws and Angels slow. Come…
42/100
A.V. Club review. Actual voiceover dialogue from this film: "The violence. How does it all begin? The violence. We’re either on one side of it or the other. Sometimes both. Where’s the innocence go? Is it gone? Or is it always there beneath the darkness, trying to remind us who we are? How do we lose ourselves? Or are we findin’ our true selves? The innocence or the darkness—which are we?"
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"The violence!! How does it all begin?? The violence!! We're either on one side of it or the other, sometimes both!! Where's the innocence go?? Is it gone?? Or is it always there beneath the darkness, trying to remind us who we are?? How do we lose ourselves?? Are we finding our true selves?? The innocence or the darkness, which are we??"
Judged this far too quickly as a piece of gratuitous exploitation disguised as Genre Fare; had almost completely lost me till it all clicked in a genuinely revelatory twist that I wouldn't dare spoil!!
All I'll say is that this is an unforgivingly cruel film, and it can be easy to get lost in its cruelty and find…
yeehaw
Strange Darling has stuck with me since I saw it last week, so I thought I'd check out JT Mollner's first flick, Outlaws and Angels. And I like it—in fact, I loved it.
It plays fast and loose with the Western genre to the point that it becomes more of an exploitation neo-Western horror, but the blood-soaked action, the terrific performances, the careful pacing, and the nuanced dialogue elevate this well above low-budget VOD level. The crescendo at the Tildon cabin was a sensational set piece and worth watching for that alone. Great stuff, and another young-ish filmmaker to stick on the must-watch follow-ups list.
136/200
Impossibly sleazy in just the right way. Everyone who hates this clearly didn't didn't see every Prosperi/Jacopetti movie in college and come to understand what it looks like when someone's actually a productive fan of garbage. Dude's talented and he likes the same trash I do, so he gets my seal of approval, even if he needs help with his dialogue.
Ain't nothin' more cringe-ifying than a bunch of second rate actors attemptin' to talk western without the proper conviction. Still, I found this one a curious assembly on account of just how ugly it was willin' to get. Bloated and somewhat embarrassin' but real grindhouse at heart.
The Cinematographer of this film should take his own life.
Outlaws and Angels (2016) is a filthy slow western. Had the chance to be filled with awesome disgusting moments, but fumbles it to the pointless....
New career goal: be the person who tosses blood on actors when they shoot someone at close range.
