Diablo (2015 film)

Diablo is a 2015 Canadian-American revisionist Western psychological thriller film produced, co-written and directed by Lawrence Roeck, and starring Scott Eastwood, Walton Goggins, Camilla Belle and Danny Glover.

A man named Jackson wakes to find his home and barn burning; Mexican bandits have taken his wife.

Shortly thereafter, Jackson encounters a Chinese man repairing a wagon who pulls a shotgun and demands a toll of 5 silver pieces.

Jackson runs from their sweat lodge hallucinating, and sees his maimed dead brother in a Union uniform.

Carver, with whom he served in the Civil War 7 years prior, and asks for a saddle and water for his horse.

He pushes his way outside to encounter Guillermo, her real husband, and the screen blacks as a shot sounds.

[1] While the film initially paints Jackson as the traditional Western hero, it's eventually revealed that he is the aggressor.

Carver, Jackson is clearly suffering from some sort of split personality disorder where he believes himself to be the hero and perceives his evil actions as those of the stranger portrayed by Walton Goggins.

"[6] Odie Henderson at RogerEbert.com writes that the film ”goes for shock value with its twists, but plays its hand far too early.

Our knowledge of events and of character force us to question why the people in the climactic scenes act as stupid as they do.

"[8] Diablo won the Best Narrative Feature award at the San Diego International Film Festival in 2015.