"(man narrating) Legend goes that somewhere beneath these mountains lies a gateway between heaven and hell." "It is said that a sacred sisterhood guards this portal and the power of their prayers keeps the damned from tormenting the living." "Trouble with the damned is they never stay put." "(bleating)" "(splashing)" "(hoofbeats)" "(breathing heavily)" "(horse neighs)" "(footsteps)" "(grunting)" "(grunting)" "(laughing)" "(echoing) My son." "We'll make a man of him, eh, Red?" "(laughter continues)" " What's wrong with ya?" " (Red laughing)" " Be a man!" " (laughs)" "(caws)" "(cawing)" "(wind blowing)" "(birds cawing)" "(flies buzzing)" "(distant rumbling)" "Man:" "Good to see you again." "(horse neighs)" "(muffled) Where is he?" "Boss is careful where he goes." "We've had a little trouble." "Why so many horses?" "Boss sent Red and me." "And now there's just me." "Like I've-- like I've said, we've had a little trouble." "You brought two too many." "Man:" "I didn't bring that one." "(birds cawing)" "(spurs jingling)" "(spurs jingling)" "You remember me." " (gun cocks) - (grunts)" "(gun clicks)" "(spurs jingling)" "Where is he?" "He did not come." "(squelching)" "(grunts, laughing)" "Still he eludes you." " (man growls) - (sobs)" "(man laughing)" "God's not gonna save ya." "(growls, grunts)" "I was to meet him here." "(grunts)" "I know nothing more." "(gasps)" "(cawing)" "(man narrating) Most times when you bring a man to justice, the axe swings, the noose tightens." "That's it." "Out here, they come back..." "Harder to kill." "The way I finish them-- rip out their heads." "As for these men..." "Target practice." "(shallow breathing)" "(metal squeaking)" "(mutters)" "(clacking)" "(creaks, squeaking stops)" "Man:" "Might I say that among my many miracles" "And holy relics," "I do carry certain apothecary notes." "In these forbidding parts," "I sense a woman is a rarity, which means a man must improvise." "What piece of you can I buy for a dollar?" "My pity." "I was being kind." "I like my men heartless." "Man #2:" "Get back to your post." "(horse neighs)" "(boot rustles)" "Well..." " That was clever." " (men chuckle)" "Fancy bitch." "You a thief?" "(sighs)" "You don't look like a thief." "I'm a dancer." "So where'd you learn a trick like that?" "Ballet school." "You know if you cross his path again, he's liable to kill you." "Death ain't the worst thing that can happen to you." "(exhales)" "You ever heard of the Gallowwalkers?" " (gasps) - (guns rattle)" "(chains rattling)" "This special tonic will cure all ailments..." " (bugle trumpeting) - ..." "And keep the undead at bay." "(rumbling)" "Man #2:" "Dang priest!" "All right, the wagon's here!" "Get 'em all up!" " Move!" " Go on!" " Whore, get up." " Get in line!" " Line up, boys!" " Move!" "Move it!" " Okay, go on!" "Move!" " Go on, get up!" "Go on, you piece of shit." " Move your sorry ass." " Go on!" " Go on, get in there!" " (watch ticking)" "(gunfire)" " Woman:" "Oh!" " (grunts)" " (grunts) - (gunfire stops)" " (horses neighing) - (men groan)" " (gunfire) - (chain clangs)" "(chain clinks)" "(gun fires)" "(coach rattling)" "(sighs)" "What's a girl gotta do to get rescued around here?" "(chain rattles)" "(breathing heavily)" "Hyah." " Man:" "You that good or was that a lucky shot?" " Lucky for you." " Man:" "So now I owe you?" " Now you owe me." "Hup." " Man:" "You got a job in mind?" " Yes." "(whip snaps)" "Priest:" "Sir..." "Do you know where we are bound?" "Enoch's hammer." "Priest:" "Sounds like a church town, a place of tolerance." "They will look kindly on one of their own." "Yeah?" "So cruelly treated, so manifestly wronged." "You know this place?" "I have family there." "Seven brothers and sisters." "All in the same grave." "(choir singing)" "Whoa." "Whoa there!" "(singing continues)" "Man:" "Brothers and sisters of Enoch's hammer, eternally pure of heart," "We have gathered here to bear witness to god's justice on the wicked and the damned." "Bow now your golden heads and pray for their souls." " Get out." "Come on." "Come on." " Get down." " Hyah!" " (chattering)" " Git!" " Get up, boy." " Get off." " Come on, you." " Git!" " Come on, little lady." " Get up." "Git!" " Woman:" "Oh." "Oh!" "Welcome, pilgrims." "I do not call you prisoners..." "Nor do I call these gallows." "These are the gates of your salvation." "For this sacrifice," "God has chosen you as the lamb, just as he chose me to help these righteous people spread justice across the land." "I was once a sinner." "Dancer:" "Damn right you were," "Cherry Gaza," "Y'all virgin eater." "You whore of Babylon." "You painted cat." "You womb of vipers!" "The smell of Jezebel has no power over me now." "When I saw the devil rise up from his grave..." "Priest:" "Sir, to whom do we plead our case?" " St. Peter!" " You cannot hang us without a trial." "(grunts)" "I can..." "And I will!" "You've already been judged and found wanting in the eyes of the lord!" "It is through his mercy that he's brought you here to be cleansed by the rope, just as he cleansed me when I saw the devil rise from the dust!" "I'll be needing a shirt." "We've only got one color, sir." "Can't go wrong with white." "I'll do my best, sir." "We keep more out the back." "(grunts, screaming)" "Kiss cut." "And you must be...?" "(thunder rumbles)" "(blades slicing)" "What do you think?" "Is it me?" " How many?" " Five." "Hmm." "All right, stranger," "I'm gonna have to see your face." "(breathing deeply)" "(bones cracking)" " (gunshots) - (people screaming)" "(gunshot)" "The cuffs are a little long." "(gunshots)" "Bring 'em in." "(clangs)" " (horses neighing) - (gunfire)" "(screams)" "Ooh!" "And hell came forth with chains and whips, the horsemen of the apocalypse." "(bird shrieks)" "(insects chittering)" "Whoa." "I'm not taking another step until you give me some answers." "(rattling)" "I'm standing right here." "You see this?" "My fucking hands hurt." "Hey." "Put it on." "(clangs)" "Tsk tsk tsk." "(breathes heavily)" " (footsteps) - (groans)" "(loud bang)" "(distant voices wailing)" "(growling)" "(gunshot)" " (thumps) - (clanks)" " (footsteps) - (panting)" "(barrel spins)" "(grunts)" "Any good with your left?" "(clanks)" "(coughs)" "(growling)" "(clanks)" "(panting)" "(soft growling)" "(clicks)" "(coins clink)" "Aman:" "Half now." "Half when you've finished the job." "How many more?" "It doesn't matter." "It only matters if it's too many for you." "You gonna give me some answers about those things?" "Aman:" "Now that's starting a story at the end." "It begins with a whore." "She's with child when the mines dry up, so she becomes a thief." "But not very good." "She's headed for the gallows when the sisters of San Diablo find her." "They take her in and teach her the secrets of the dead." "When the boy child is born, they tell her," ""you must give him up." "The gateway to hell is no place to raise a child."" "So she sends him to an orphanage, and there he grows and grows and grows until the clock strikes 12:00." "And then they tell him, "you're a man." "You must leave."" "But where?" "A widow woman meets him, likes him, takes him in." "She's the mistress of a slaughterhouse." "She teaches him a trade, puts food on the table, loves him..." "And raises him with her daughter." "Aha." "Beautiful daughter." "He grows to love the daughter." "Oh!" "(laughs)" "Aman:" "She is his to protect." "One sunrise she tells him," ""go with mother to sell the skins." "Don't worry." "I can take care of myself."" "He leaves her." "Five men ride by." " They find her alone." " (woman grunts)" " Go on!" " (laughs)" " Aman:" "And they make use of her." " (snaps)" "(screams)" "You bitch!" "(growls)" "She keeps it secret until she can no more, for now she is with child." "She begs him-- forgive her, forget what has happened to her for the sake of the unborn." "She says the men are gone and to her they mean nothing." "But not to him." "No." "For one of them grows inside of her." "Unbearable." "So for a second time he leaves." "For the next five years, he remembers nothing..." "But the pain of not being by her side." "He returns to find her dead." "She died giving..." "Birth to that child." "They took from him the thing he loved most." "Those who were responsible..." "Would pay." "(wind blowing)" "(insects chittering)" " (blow thuds) - (body thuds)" "(man mumbling)" "(continues mumbling)" "(chains rattle)" "Troy." "Son." "Get ready." "The boys are sending someone." "(chuckles)" "We're getting out of here." "He's here, my darling." "(footsteps)" "(body thuds)" "(cocking, firing)" "I always hated that bitch." " Please, senor." "Amigo!" " (gunshot)" "(grunts)" "Come on, get us out!" "Get us out of here!" "Who are you?" "Her name..." " was Sueno." " (cocks)" " (wheezes) - (cocks)" "(gunshots)" "(thuds)" "(breathing heavily)" "(gun clatters)" "(whimpering)" " You're late." " Well..." "There was some that needed convincing..." "This was a good idea." "A bottle of beer is a good idea." "Wearing a hat in the rain is a good idea." "This..." "Is genius." "(screams, grunting)" " Hey!" " Oh!" "Shut the hell up, bitch." "(grunts)" "You touch me and you're dead!" "Compelling argument." "You must be a lawyer." "She's a whore." "Mmm." "An easy mistake." " I apologize." " (man chuckles)" " (whimpers) - (man grunts)" "(coughs)" " (coughs)" " Shh." " (cloth rips)" " Ah!" "Ah." "Hmm." "Good texture." " (whimpering) - (man chuckles)" "Tough yet soft." "(coughing)" " (crying) - (sniffing)" "You'll fit in well." "I'm looking for the right girl..." "For my boy." "You freak!" "Mmm." "I get that a lot." "It doesn't stop it hurting though." "Hmm?" " God have mercy!" " (thuds)" "(crowd screaming)" "We die, we come back and you call us..." "Gallowwalkers." "(laughing)" "Well, if it's good enough for jesus, it should be good enough for us." "(laughter continues)" "It's a goddamn miracle, ain't it?" "It happens, but no one knows who or how or why." "No one knows." "And here's the thing..." "I get shot." "My son gets shot." "Three of my men get shot." "The son of a bitch even shoots my whore." "I come back." "My men come back." "Even my fucking whore comes back." "But with my son, death persists!" "Life's little mystery." "Does anyone here know where I might find the sisters of San Diablo..." " (murmuring) - ..." "In the mountain of resurrection?" "Hmm?" "No." "(clanks)" "(crowd gasps)" "(moos)" "(thuds)" "(clacking)" "Clear." " (moos) - (clacks)" " (thuds) - (blood squelches)" "(clacking)" "(metal clanking)" "(thuds)" "(scraping)" "Ah!" "(horse snorts)" "You sleep now." "Eat if you're hungry." "How much time I got?" "To sleep, to eat or to live?" "(running footsteps)" "(bleating)" "Who is he?" "First I could find." "What happened?" "They know who I am." "(ladle clanks)" "So now they will come." "You bring this boy because you think I cannot fight at your side?" "(grabs)" "I can fight." "You know I can fight." "(clatters)" "Did one see your face?" "It was a mistake." "You don't make mistakes." "Perhaps you want him to come." "Perhaps you want him to know who hunts him." "You want him to come..." "To finish it, here where it all began." "(spurs jingling)" "(cutting)" "You gotta shave?" " I got no beard." " Me neither." "Wanna play a game?" "No, I don't." "Wanna throw shots for money?" "Yes, I do." "(sniffles)" "(rock clatters)" "(laughs)" "My turn." "(thuds, clatters)" " (clatters) - (laughs)" "Damn it!" "One dollar and we never talk of this day again." "(wind chimes clinking)" "(Aman narrating) I never knew my mother, but I can sense that she was always there." "As for Sueno," "She was my everything." "My friend, my lover..." "The memory that I lived for." "Fabulos:" "So where you want me?" "(footsteps)" "Just get in the shed." "You're gonna need this." "(Fabulos chuckles)" "There's" "There's really nothing coming that we won't see." "Well, you didn't see that." "(hissing)" "Oh jes-- (grunts)" "Okay." "Okay." "All right." "You win." "(chuckles)" "Okay, so back at the skinning shed, two guns, shoot 'em in the head." "Anything else?" "Okay." "(sighs)" "(sighs)" "(chuckles)" "(flies buzzing)" "(man screaming)" "(woman screams)" "Ah." "Oh, you look good, boss." "He was young." " (woman screams)" " Eh." "Uh, what you think of mine, boss?" "(chuckles) Oh, it's-- it's not pretty, but it stands up to the sun, huh?" "(chuckles) Oh, they may laugh, but you don't see me hiding in a hood, huh?" "Shriveling like beef jerky." "They need skinning again in a week." "(man screams)" "But me, I get a good month wear of this." "And I think a lizard skin is a good look for me." "Suit yourself." "All the more flesh for us." " (screaming continues) - (chuckles)" "Eh." "Boss?" "If I do a good job, can I have her lips?" "Kansa:" "Yes, you can." "You do a bad job and I'll sew her lips onto your face myself, and that will come with a beard." "(grunts)" "Man:" "Priest." "About time." "I've been dying for this." "Man:" "Girl." "Take her." "Forgive me, father, for I have skinned." " Mosca!" " Mosca:" "Ah yes, boss, I come." " (whimpering) Oh no." " (mutters)" "Sit still, no?" "Oh, you hiding something from me." "You hide, huh?" "I find it." "I find it." "Now where is it?" "!" "(mutters)" "Ah!" "Ah." "Tell me that's it." "Let me see." "Yes, boss." "It's what we've been looking for." "It's the map to skull mountain." "It's ours now, yeah?" "(laughing )" "Hey." "And so it came to pass in a time when popes made pacts with pagan lords, the sisters of San Diablo had forced upon them a most cursed devotion..." "One that no other sisterhood could endure." "The passion of their prayer would become the power that keeps the damned from walking the earth." "And so into their hands passed the ancient secrets of what divides the living from the dead." "(chuckles)" "Where are they, chicken bones?" "Where do they hide?" "Does the rest of him arrive monthly?" "Man:" "We had a little trouble." "I got shot." "I got shot bad, boss." "(gunshot)" "He's back." "You know him?" "You never forget the man who kills you for the first time." "The first time is always special." "Skullbucket, take the rest of the men, find the gunman." "Kill him and anyone that's with him." "(wind blowing)" "(creaking)" "(door banging)" "(woman laughing)" " Hey." "Hey hey." "Hey." " Oh!" "You gotta sober up, ma'am." " Uh..." " All right?" "It could be today." "What did he tell you, kid?" "(laughs)" "He told you nothing." "Look, it's five men" "He has killed them once, now he must kill them again." "I need dunking." "(bleating)" "You know, he's got the one thing..." "That a gunman needs to be great." "A reason to live." "Now." "(gun cocks)" "(gunshot)" "(thunder crashing)" "(cocks)" "(guns firing)" "(blood splatters)" " (whinnies) - (grunts)" "(neighs)" " (whip whooshing) - (grunts)" "(guns firing)" "(woman yelps)" "(wind blowing)" " (wind howls) - (screams)" "(skullbucket snarls)" "(gasps)" " (grunts) - (gasps)" " (clangs) - (grunts)" " (grunts) - (skullbucket grunts)" "(screams)" "(skullbucket growling)" " (whip snaps) - (thuds)" "Come on, come on." " (clangs) - (grunts)" "(chains rattling)" "(skullbucket grunting)" "(gunshot)" "(crashes)" "(gun clicks, barrel whirrs)" "You're okay, kid." "(growling)" "Aman!" "Aman!" "(grunts)" "(chuckles) Kids." "You saved me." "I never wanna see that thing again." "Who are you looking for?" "The one that didn't come." "Where is he?" "I'll find him." "I guess we made it." "(clears throat)" "I'm gonna-- I'm gonna go." " Hey." " Yeah?" " (gunshot) - (gasps)" "(panting)" "You killed me." "Why the fuck did you shoot me?" "!" "You would've bled to death." "(guns clicking)" "(bullets clink)" "A man might take the news of his own death badly." "(laughing)" "(Aman narrating) I felt for the kid." "I really did, but I couldn't just leave him to die." "Me?" "I had unfinished business at the place of my own resurrection." "I figured if I ever made it back," "I would tell him about the time when I died." "(cocks)" "(gunshot)" "It was over." "My death meant nothing." "But to my mother, it was everything." "Let him live." "He's my only son." "And I'll stay here as your servant." "Devil:" "Oh, my price is a little higher than that." "He is one of mine now." "He has blood on his hands." "My deal is this:" "When he is resurrected, so too will all those slain by his hand." "(evil laughter)" "Now you must pay." "(mother screaming)" "(Aman narrating) and so I awoke beneath that mountain where my mother had sacrificed her life for mine," "whilst out there the damned were stirring." "(distant hoofbeats)" "(pickaxes clanging)" "Fine flesh." "Not as fair as I would wish, but you'll fit in well." "What breed was your mother?" "She was scottish." "Those Celts have a luster." "And your father-- was he pale-skinned?" "Pale?" "(chuckles) He was invisible." "Well, I'll soon have my boy again," " once we patch him up with that fine skin of yours." " (gasps)" "(booms)" "At last, the entrance." "(breathing hard) Mosca, bring my boy." "Kiss cut, are you my whore or what?" "Boss!" "Boss!" "Ah..." "You see this, boss?" "It's called the Aumenta." "It means "the land of the dead."" "Huh?" "You don't take that path, boss." "But this one, boss, is called" ""the Uroborus at the pinnacle."" "It means resurrection shall be found at the mountaintop." "This is the path, boss." "I certain." "Stay here." " (spurs jingling)" " Bring my boy." "Mosca, you know this coat of mine you like so much?" "You just earned it." "Ohh." "Thank you, boss." "Thank you!" "Me, I like the cuffs." "(water dripping)" "I blew you a kiss..." "And you blew me away." "I had no choice." "So choose now." "Knives or guns?" "Guns." "(jacket thuds)" "Guns it is." "(humphs)" "(knife whooshes, clangs)" "Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk." "(footsteps approach)" "(grunting)" "(grunts)" "(gunshot)" "I don't sleep." "But if I did..." "One thought would keep me from it." ""Why did my son not return?"" "You brought death to every one of us." "So tell me." "(footsteps approach)" "No no no no no no no no no." "(clicks)" "You any good with your left?" "I thought you wanted me dead." "Fabulos:" "Yeah well, dead ain't what it used to be." "(spurs jingling)" "All this over one petty piece of pussy." "(gunshot)" "(body thuds)" "(softly) He took his own life." "(hoarsely) My boy!" "My son!" "I'm a woman in need of rescue." "What kind of man are you?" "I'm the heartless kind." "Hey, come on." "I don't know how to be dead." "No one taught you how to live." "(rock music playing)" "(acoustic guitar music playing)"