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- Entertaining genre mash-up that combines horror and western and stars Kurt Russell as a sheriff forced to do battle with a gang of inbred cannibals.
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Oct 23, 2015 · S. Craig Zahler’s debut genre-jumper “Bone Tomahawk” is a surprisingly sturdy Western—a piece with obvious nods to John Ford built around a quartet of travelers on a rescue mission—until it takes a sharp left turn and becomes something closer to horror. These kind of genre mash-ups rarely work, which makes the impact of “Bone ...
- Kurt Russell stars as a sheriff doing battle with a gang of inbred cannibals.
- Verdict
By Chris Tilly
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 7:02 pm
Posted: Oct 2, 2015 3:00 am
Bone Tomahawk takes two very different genres and smashes them together in pretty successful fashion. Initially the film is a western, set in a town called Bright Hope and filled with rogues on either side of the law. As is typical, a mysterious stranger shows up, raises suspicion, and ruffles the feathers of sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell).
Conflict ensues, the stranger gets himself thrown into jail, and it kind of feels like we've seen it all before. But we really haven't, as overnight a stable boy is murdered, and the stranger and the local doctor are kidnapped. A Native American expert is brought in to investigate, and reveals that the perpetrators are a tribe of inbred, cave-dwelling cannibals.
What follows is a twisted, violent men on a mission movie, the sheriff teaming up with elderly deputy Chicory (Richard Jenkins), local gent John Brooder (Matthew Fox) and the doctor's husband Arthur (Patrick Wilson) to hunt down the troglodytes.
A genre mash-up that deliver on both fronts, Bone Tomahawk is a two-hour blast that features great dialogue, strong characters, and imaginative and memorable kills.
- Chris Tilly
Nov 18, 2015 · Similar to his work on the page, the movie is a dark genre tale that attains a profound bleakness before the curtain closes. It's an offbeat mashup of Western and horror elements, but don't...
Oct 26, 2015 · Read our review! On paper, the idea of combining a Western with a horror story is a strangely compelling one, but the last Western/horror mash-up this writer remembers watching was JT Petty’s...
Mar 1, 2023 · ‘Bone Tomahawk’ shows performance potential in the genre mash-up. The horror genre holds great potential for impactful performances in the exploration of fear and the fight for survival....
Dec 22, 2015 · Bone Tomahawk is a genre mash-up that gets everything right, is supported by an amazing cast and a talented newcomer director.
Bone Tomahawk is a 2015 American Western film written and directed by S. Craig Zahler in his directorial debut, and starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, Evan Jonigkeit, David Arquette and Sid Haig. It was produced by Jack Heller and Dallas Sonnier. The film is about a small-town sheriff who leads a ...
