Kellen Garner is Joe Goode, a notorious outlaw posing as a whiskey drummer who seduces Daisy Potter, the banker’s wife.
He’s got her thinking they might have a future together, a future that could be financed by her husband’s savings.
So they head off to the bank to make a withdrawal. What Daisy doesn’t know is that it’s all a ruse to rob her husband’s bank.
What Joe Goode doesn’t anticipate is that cousin Mack (Chris Cleveland), freshly broken out of jail, will show up at the bank with the rest of the gang, guns blazing.
Instead of the slick, quiet bank robbery and smooth getaway Joe Goode was anticipating, a deadly shootout erupts on the streets of New Salem.
The gang has a falling out. The posse tracks them to their hideout. By the time the shooting ends, Joe has fled with a satchel full of gold and loot.
He won’t be alone for long. Doc John McQueen (Charlie Green), who’s best friend died back in New Salem, tracks him down.
And on the trip back to town, they stumble upon a grisly scene. The only survivors — a midwife named Willow Polly (Aria Song) and a baby named Jane, who might be cursed.
At least she’s cursed in the fact that a beast from the hills has killed every other member of her family. And now wants to finish the job.
Kellen Garner as Joe Goode, at odds with cousin Mack over leadership of their gang in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Charlie Green as Doc John McQueen, a doctor who turns out to be the most determined member of a posse in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Review:
Directors Kellen Garner and Christopher Sheffield served up a fine Western with 2020’s “Road to Revenge.”
Here, they reassemble several of the same cast members. The result is one of the best horror Westerns you’ll find.
The first half of the film plays out like a standard Western. With the exception that it doesn’t look nearly as low-budget as most Westerns released in the 2020s and everyone who has lines can actually act.
Then the demon shows up. And suddenly stars Kellen Garner and Charlie Green — both of whom turn in fine performances — have more to worry about than an angry gang of outlaws.
Speaking of fine performances, Chris Cleveland makes for one heck of a villain as Joe’s cousin, Mack Goode.
Aria Song as WIllow Polly, fearful of the demon on the trail of the last member of the Bragge family in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Chris Cleveland as Mack Goode, Joe’s cousin, defiant even behind bars in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Directed by:
Kellen Garner
and Christopher Sheffield
Cast:
Kellen Garner … Joe Goode
Charlie Green … Doc John McQueen
Aria Song … Willow Polly
Chris Cleveland … Mack Goode
Ruby Garner … Baby Jane
George Nelson … Sheriff Frank Brooks
Aaron Ginn-Forsberg … Deputy Dale
Jessica Taylor … Daisy Potter
Brian Shakti … Mr. Potter
Tyler Boettcher … Billy
Heather Renee Wake … Smiley
Kevin Tye … Keel
Preston Geer … Hector
Zach Bushman … Chuck
Justin Justice … Shorty
Tyler Galley … Possum
Gilberto Zaragoza … Gilberto
Joe Munoz … Munoz
Peter Sherayko … Judge Morrison
Brayn N. Stuarat … John Bragge
Madilyn Mei … Sara Bragge
Maribel Jiminez … Mary Bragge
Hunter Lock … Martin Bragge
Bill Wetherill … Big Earl
Victorio Pope, Derek Riley, Rurik Riley and Darrel Tessay … Apache warriors
Runtime: 114 min.
Jessica Taylor as Daisy Potter, thinking life with Joe Goode might be better than life with her rich husband in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Brian Shakti as Mr. Potter, arriving at his bank to find his wife with an outlaw and a robbery in progress in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Memorable lines:
Sheriff to the doctor as he enters a cell to treat a wounded prisoner: “While you’re in there, why don’t you throw a few stitches in his lips?”
Daisy: “I’ve never known a whiskey peddler to be so heavily armed.”
Joe Goode: “It is a dangerous profession.”
Daisy, noticing the scars on his back: “Yeah, I can see that.”
Joe Goode, in the middle of the bank robbery: “I gotta hand it to you, Potter. You got good taste in women. And you run a helluva bank.”
Joe Goode, of a lawman: “You didn’t have to kill him, Mack.”
Mack: “Oh, I know.” He snarls. “But I wanted to.”
Heather Renee Wake as Smiley, a Goode gang member, trying to delay the bank owner in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Tyler Boettcher as Billy, drawing a bead on a friend fleeing with a satchel full of loot in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Joe Goode: “I’ll have borrow your horse. Mine pulled up lame a while ago. I had to let her go. Like most of the women in my life, she proved to be a disappointment.”
Doc McQueen: “You must be hard to love.”
Doc McQueen: “Who did this to you?”
Willow Polly: “A demon.” She shakes her head. “No. Something more.
Big Earl, trading post proprietor: “Can’t be too careful out there. There’s only blood in them hills.”
Willow Polly: “God has a sense of humor.”
Joe Goode: “So does the devil, apparently.”
Joe Goode to his cousin: “I’ve been sittin’ here for five minutes, dreamin’ up all the ways I wanna kill you. It’s a damned shame I only get to pick one.”
George Nelson as Sheriff Frank Brooks, trying to take sense to an outlaw using a woman as a shield in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Bill Wetherill as Big Earl, the trading post owner who serves up Irishman stew, complete with fingers, in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Victorio Pope, Derek Riley, Rurik Riley and Darrel Tessay as the Apache warriors on the trail of a demon in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Ruby Garner as Baby Jane, in the arms of one of her protectors in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Jessica Taylor as Daisy Potter and Kellen Garner as Joe Goode, in a tense moment after she realizes he’s not a whiskey drummer in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Aria Song as Willow Polly, enjoying a rare tranquil moment caring for baby Jane in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Heather Renee Wake as Smiley senses a presence coming up behind her in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
Charles Green as Doc McQueen and Kellen Garner as Joe Goode, debating over what to do about Willow and baby Jane in Blood in Them Hills (2025)
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