Mixing Westerns and Horror is an interesting mix
THE BURROWERS is an interesting eclectic mix of Westerns and monster horror. It's not the first to attempt this new sub-genre of horror, but right now I can only remember one other western horror flick, RAVENOUS (1999). I find the western horror sub-genre to be interesting. I'd like to see more.
ANACHRONISMS:
1) I'm ashamed that I didn't notice this inconsistency immediately. Another quick-witted imdb poster caught it right away. The screwball U.S. Army cavalry captain speaks with an oddball Southern accent but that's not it. The year is 1879, just 14 years after the Civil War. The southern people still retain a strong disdain of the U.S. Army federals. The imdb poster was right. There would be no southerners wearing the hated U.S. Army bluecoat uniform so soon after the Civil War. Southern patriotism would begin its resurrection with the Spanish-American War in 1898 and fully re-emerge with the U.S. involvement in the First World War in 1917.
2) LEVER-ACTION RIFLES. This has always been a favorite Hollywood anachronism. The U.S. Army purchased just a few thousand Henry, lever-action repeating rifles during the Civil War. But after the war, the U.S. Army turned its back on repeating rifles. There were hundreds of thousands of Springfield muzzle loaders in inventory that the post-war, cash-strapped U.S. Army was not going to scrap. The U.S. Army instead had their muzzle loading rifles converted to single-shot, breech loaders, called the Allin Trapdoor. The U.S. Army cavalry out in the west may have been lucky enough to carry surplus, 7-shot Spencer repeating carbines until those wore out. The rest had to be satisfied with allin trapdoor breech loading conversions of Springfield formerly muzzle loaders. The carbine version was especially popular with the cavalry. The rifle conversions went to the infantry.
3) Anybody watch the British cult classic horror flick from the 80s, called, XTRO? The alien monster in XTRO looks almost identical to the burrower creatures. The creatures resemble humanoid forms that look to be walking on their backs on all fours, crab-like.