I thought Bone Tomahawk was going to be all Kurt Russell, all the time. Okay, let’s talk performances, because there isn’t a weak link in this cast. I don’t even usually notice that shit! I’m not a cinephile, so it was huge for me to get so stirred up by camerawork. Some shots linger on the place the characters just left like a warning not to go further. It’s stark and dry: the greens are never actually green, and the shots are so close and crisp that you can see every detail, from dirt and sweat to wrinkles and bloodstains. The cinematography is also perfect for the story.
The sparse score also perfectly conveys that these aren’t Western action heroes – they’re ordinary, flawed men, being heroic. You get a lot of silence and nature sounds that establish the smallness of the community, the isolation. The plot builds slowly, with barely any musical fuss. This is matter-of-fact gore shot at the same patient speed as the campfire dialogues. But then you’re hit with this horrific gore – not gratuitous gore, where you can kind of laugh it off. It’s the slow, torturous burn of a really good psychological horror there are long periods in the first two thirds where you aren’t even afraid because you can kind of forget about the evil. Then you see a sweet young Black man walking toward a barn to see what’s spooking the horses and you’re like NO DON’T GO INTO THE BARN!Ī bunch of people get taken by the troglodytes, and a scrappy group assembles for pursuit: aging Sheriff Hunt (Kurt Russell), even older backup-deputy Chicory (Richard Jenkins), deadly dandy Brooder (Matthew Fox), and rancher Arthur (Patrick Wilson), who has a broken leg but desperately wants to rescue his wife.ĭespite the brutal violence, Bone Tomahawk isn’t a fast-paced slasher flick. Turns out he killed those people on some kind of ceremonial ground for a cannibalistic tribe of cave-dwellers, “a spoiled bloodline of inbred animals who rape and eat their own mothers” according to a local Native American known as the Professor (Zahn McClarnon). That idiot (David Arquette) then staggers into Bright Hope, bringing death with him. You see a shadowy figure attacking one man as the other escapes. A strange howling is heard, and the men are suddenly swarmed with arrows. In the first scene, two drifters have robbed and murdered a group of people, but they don’t get time to enjoy the spoils. Make sure you watch it with a buddy (mistake #2), and with your feet up under a blanket on the couch so the troglodytes can’t grab them.īone Tomahawk is set in the 1890s, in a fictional frontier settlement called Bright Hope. It didn’t help that I watched it right before bed (mistake #1)… and around 3am there was a massive storm directly over our super remote ranch, complete with forked lightning, window-rattling thunder, and hail so hard it sounded like it was going to tear the roof off.īone Tomahawk isn’t for the weak of heart. And when I say haunting, I mean IT WILL HAUNT YOU ALL NIGHT LONG.
Well, last night I FINALLY watched this haunting f*cking movie. At one point I even thought I had bought it online, and then went to watch it only to discover that it was still sitting in my wishlist. And then somehow years passed and it became a thing: “you’ve seen Bone Tomahawk, right?” “No, but I really want to!”. It looked gritty and sinister and I just couldn’t wait.īut I guess Bone Tomahawk had a limited release, I don’t even know if it played anywhere near me.
#BONE TOMAHAWK MOVIE#
I’d been hungry for another cult-ish Kurt Russell movie since his thoroughly disgusting turn in Death Proof. It had everything I was into: horror, Western, and Kurt Muthaf*cking Russell. I was SO INTO IT when I saw the first sneak peeks and the trailer. I’m ashamed of how long it took me to see Bone Tomahawk. Released: 2015 Mood: If you can’t decide between a Western and a deeply unsettling psychological horror flick and you definitely don’t plan on eating again today because you for sure won’t want to. Starring: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins Director: S.
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