Go West, young man: Westerns
Westerns were popular years ago (they even ruled at the box office) but seem to have gone West over the years. Clint Eastwood can still make a Western that audiences will flock to see, though, and John Wayne Westerns will always be popular on TV, especially late at night and on rainy Sunday afternoons. Find a ghost town, some horses, and a couple of cowboy hats, grab a sarsaparilla, and you’ve got yourself a Western, like
A Western may be inexpensive to shoot if you have a couple of horses and a ghost town at your disposal, but Westerns aren’t the most commercial of film genres today and are considered more of a risk. And for that reason, many distributors steer away from acquiring them.