2015 · western · horror
Bone Tomahawk
Directed by S. Craig Zahler2h 13m2015
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Our read: Bone Tomahawk (2015) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive western · horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme western / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
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