The western and cannibal genres combined with excellent results. Good character building in the slower parts of the movie ensure that when the action heats up you really care for them.
A slow burn without much music .. Great characters in a calm western, with some gruesome & disturbing imagery near the end (western-only fans,take note!) .. A nice genre-mix for the fans of both!
Decent movie just really slow. Some really gruesome scenes that make the movie worth watching. I watched this after seeing the director’s other film, Brawl in Cell Block 99, you can really see the type of movies he is trying to make. Not my favorite but I'll keep an eye out for what he does next.
good movie. seems to be based off a paiute story of the Saiduka and off a nevada true story where cannibals kidnapped people then were found and wiped out in 1909
One of the greatest performances of the legendary Kurt Russell a true American classic.
2 hours and 13 minutes... shoulda been done in less than 90. In the end not worth sitting through it.
Gritty and violent, Bone Tomahawk is a rare mix of western and horror. When a small frontier town is raided by a tribe of primitive cave dwelling cannibals the sheriff mounts a posse to track them dawn and rescue those who were abducted. Featuring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Lili Simmons, the cast is quite impressive. And, the director does a good job at making the fight scenes raw and intense. However, the pacing is rather slow and the trek to the mountains can get monotonous. Also, the plot is pretty thin and some of the characters are underdeveloped. Yet despite its problems, Bone Tomahawk is a remarkably evocative and compelling film.
great little horror Western movie hybrid
really love this simple small cast Matthew Fox really stands out here
Started well but after 30-40 minutes it became boring and believe me i was in the mood to watch a unique movie like this one..6.4/10
Really excellently made and some good body horror scenes.
Bone Tomahawk feels like watching actors in a movie as opposed to characters in a story. This is partly due to bad casting, bad dialog, and bad writing. This film is not worth its time.
I’ve been meaning to see this for years, and it lived up to expectations. Although I thought the horror aspect would be a bit more prominent. But great cast, writing and pacing.
I'd never heard of Bone Tomahawk until a recent list on another website; added this to my own Watchlist and wow, what a neat surprise! Great cast, great acting, a completely unique - yet feasible - storyline of "cowboys and indians" (of a sort) that, in a manner of speaking, blended "western" with "horror"... a genre you don't often see. The conclusion was unexpectedly abrupt, but even that seemed to fit, in a manner of speaking, with all the other weird characteristics of this film. With the one scene in particular, I was very surprised that this was rated only a TV-MA, as there are certainly some very gruesome and graphic senes in here. It's a bit slow at the beginning (okay, not necessarily the opening scene, featuring good ol' Sid Haig!) but if you're a fan of the weird and/or macabre, I would definitely recommend giving this one a watch!
Pretty good movie but not something I would buy.
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A different western, slow cooking and changing gender, was fine
A thought this movie was great! It turned my stomach in parts. Good choice on casting. I liked Richard Jenkins character, He brought some comedy to it. I wasn't impressed with the ending thought, it could of been better.
All I can say is WOW! ★★★★★★★
Hmmm Cowboys meets Descent. https://trakt.tv/movies/the-descent-2005
Could have been better, more thrills rather than the plodding horse this is.
This is not a typical western. The story is set in the west roughly in the 1890s but even though it has Indains (kind of), horses and guns it isn´t classical western style. That doesn´t mean it´s a bad movie. It´s slow paced, sometimes a bit to slow, but in general it works. There is a certain style of humor which I liked. The characters are well drafted and equally well played. But it is certainly not your average easy entertainment movie.
Really enjoyed this, the film took its time to develop the central characters, who were pretty likeable for the most part. This makes the gruesome denouement all the more impactful. Had an old school feel about it and it's like Kurt Russell walked straight off the set of hateful 8 onto this one!
Mesmerizing tale of some unspoken terror. It is scarier than The Green Inferno...
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Bone Tomahawk is an amazing hybridisation of the best of Horror movies and Westerns. As an extremely rare blend of both genres, it is a really peculiar and unique movie in the best way possible. Directing is really outstanding. The quartet of actors deliver performances that are indubitably in the ranks of their bests. Photography is really great. The minimalistic atmosphere and the progressive "slow-burn" pacing make the relationships between the main cast particularly endearing (plus the dialogues are really well-written and the interactions between the characters are particularly visceral and real). Fans of both genres will be more than satisfied.
Note of caution: the movie might be considered the opposite of PC (for the sake of a certain kind of "historical realism"). It is also of course really (really) gruesome in some moments. Still, it is not at all a deterrent IF you like the two genres, as the codes of both are respected in a clinical manner, and masterfully blended.