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Bone Tomahawk.

posted 8 years ago by Li-1
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Anyone else on this board seen Bone Tomahawk? I felt like that film completely fulfilled the promising mix of horror and western that The Burrowers strived for but only partially succeeded. They're both similarly premised films about a group of men set out to rescue people who have been presumed kidnapped by Native Americans.

BT was better acted and written with far more likeable characters, more handsomely shot, somehow much better paced despite being 40 minutes longer, and the troglodytes were overall more frightening and intimidating villains than the burrowers.

[–] chestburster 8 years ago

Bah. BT probably has some "interesting" acting --I say "interesting" not "better" because Clancy Brown is every bit as badass as Kurt Russell -- but the whole plot of BT is just The Hills Have Eyes/The Descent with cowboys. Those cavemen were pretty scary at first then became comically laughable when 7 or 8 of them got killed by a single crippled weak white guy. As a result the revenge by Patrick Wilson is far less satisfying than The Descent's final revenge killing by its heroine.

The death scene in BT also only had shallow shock value as the deaths in Burrowers are far more disturbing. I'd take being brutally killed by savage cannibals any day over being devoured alive by monsters while paralyzed.

[–] Thrill_KillZ 8 years ago

Bah

Maybe the wool was over yer eyes when you watched BT, eh?

[–] steveintucson 8 years ago

I just made a comment on my libraries website about how much I liked Bone Tomahawk and added that folks should try and catch this movie if they liked BT.