In the West, redemption costs blood—and sometimes, your soul.
Outlaws and Angels (2016) is a brutal, sun-scorched Western that throws morality into the dust and drags it screaming through the blood-soaked soil of the American frontier. With a tone both intimate and savage, the film flips the Western genre on its head—where heroes don’t exist, and monsters wear the softest smiles.
Set in 1887 New Mexico Territory, the story follows a gang of desperate outlaws—led by the charming but vicious Henry (Chad Michael Murray)—as they flee south after a bank robbery gone wrong. Injured and hunted, they stumble upon an isolated farmhouse inhabited by the devoutly religious Tildon family. Seeking refuge, the outlaws take the family hostage… but quickly realize that what lies behind the Tildons' quiet piety is far darker than they imagined.
Florence (Francesca Eastwood), the seemingly innocent teenage daughter, becomes the axis upon which violence, seduction, and vengeance spin. As the night deepens, so does the horror, with power dynamics shifting, secrets erupting, and blood spilling across every surface. What begins as a hostage situation becomes a moral and psychological reckoning—for everyone.
Directed by JT Mollner in stark, sepia-toned cinematography, Outlaws and Angels feels like a fevered hallucination of a John Ford Western rewritten by the Devil. It’s cruel, sexual, provocative—and dares to ask if anyone in a lawless world is truly worth saving.
