Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia

In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie ';grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent,'; while New York Magazine declared it ';a catastrophe.'; Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpahs notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years, the work was heralded as a demented masterpiece mdash;a violent, hallucinatory autobiography and a brilliant example of ';pure Peckinpah.'; This study revisits the making of this controversial film, as well as its original reception and subsequent reassessment.

It reads the project as an auteur work, a genre film, a confession, and a bizarre self-parody.