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Films like Bone Tomahawk.

Bone Tomahawk (2015) reads as Heavy, measured, extreme western / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Kala Kemarau Tiba (2018) poster
1. Kala Kemarau Tiba2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Beautiful Beings (2022) poster
2. Beautiful Beings2022

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Can Go Through Skin (2009) poster
3. Can Go Through Skin2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

The Proposition (2005) poster
4. The Proposition2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

War Witch (2012) poster
5. War Witch2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Scary Mother (2017) poster
6. Scary Mother2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019) poster
7. Dogs Don't Wear Pants2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Super Dark Times (2017) poster
8. Super Dark Times2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Park (2016) poster
9. Park2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Closeness (2017) poster
10. Closeness2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Suntan (2016) poster
11. Suntan2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Carrie (2013) poster
12. Carrie2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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