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Weird West (or Weird Western) is a genre of fiction that uses the Wild West period of American History as a foundation and then adds fantasy/supernatural elements to it. So stories where gunslingers encounter zombies, vampires, demons, robots, or any other creatures that wouldn't otherwise be present in a standard Western.
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Yeah, once we start discussing modern day movies it's hard to draw the line between Weird West and just a vampire movie in an abandoned town. I was thinking about John Carpenter's Vampires too, which has a final showdown in an abandoned western town kinda like how From Dusk Till Dawn is in an isolated bar.
How about this: originally, Big Trouble In Little China was written as a western. John Carpenter liked the idea of it being set in Chinatown