Peckinpah saddles his themes with so many sordid sideshows and so many privative and private obsessions that, in the end, it is about nothing so much as the strange, special world of Peckinpah's own psyche.

while Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is certainly a memento mori, replete with intimations of its characters' corporeal nature and mortality, it is also, ultimately, a bizarre buddy pic

The movie's main problem is that the protagonist -- the dead head -- is a bore.

Alfredo Garcia is as bleak as they come–but its narrative economy and fascinatingly complex turns by both Warren Oates and Isela Vega elevate it into one of Peckinpah’s most interesting films.