A Town Called Purgatory is a 2024 American horror Western film directed by Matt Servitto and written by Ken Arnold and Dan DeLuca.
Arnold and DeLuca star in the film as a Yankee lawman and an ex-Confederate in the aftermath of the American Civil War; when they join forces to catch a gang of train robbers, they are led to a ghost town called Purgatory, where they find themselves hunted by a skin-walker of Navajo legend.
[3] Arnold stated that the concept of A Town Called Purgatory was derived from spaghetti Westerns and horror folklore, and that the filmmakers "aim[ed] to work in a unique genre fusion that hasn't been widely explored.
The story inevitably mirrors that sense of unease and isolation that we felt during lockdown, and this fed into the narrative, pushing us to explore themes of confinement, the wariness of others and the unknown.
"[3] In April 2024, A Town Called Purgatory was shown at Creature Feature Weekend in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.