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Lizards in Movies   Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is an Italian Spaghetti Western made in Spain. It's one of the strangest, with lots of violence and surrealism. Django is a member of a gang of outlaws who murder a dozen men in order to steal a fortune in gold, but he is betrayed, shot and left for dead by the gang boss for being a "half breed." Django survives with the help of some Native Americans and goes to seek revenge, only to discover that the townspeople already strung up the rest of the gang, and that two of the most respectable men of the town have stolen the gold and are fighting over it. Meahwhile, the boss of the territory and his gang of black-uniformed cowboys are kidnapping, torturing, and killing men to try to get the gold for themselves. They put Django in jail, chain him to a cross and torture him because he knows where the gold is hidden. He won't talk, so the boss decides to bring out the big guns - a hideous monster whose bloodthirsty violence can terrify and break even the most hardened man. That's right, I'm talking about a Green Iguana! Oh the horror! We don't see what agonizing torture the iguana commits on Django, but it must have been some Abhu-Ghraib-level-torture, because he finally talks. (They also tossed some vampire bats in too, so maybe the iguana just sat in the corner like they usually do.) There are only two shots of the iguana, which were probably filmed a thousand miles away from the set Django was on. One of the shots was so sloppy, you can even see some human hands holding on to it so it will stay still for the camera.