
After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. Despite his injured leg the rancher joins a small rescue party with the sheriff, his aging deputy and a strong-willed gunslinger. What follows is a journey into hell on earth as the posse comes to realize it is up against a foe whose savagery knows no bounds. The film takes place at th... (Full plot summary below)
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After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. Despite his injured leg the rancher joins a small rescue party with the sheriff, his aging deputy and a strong-willed gunslinger. What follows is a journey into hell on earth as the posse comes to realize it is up against a foe whose savagery knows no bounds. The film takes place at the turn of the century around the border of what is now Texas and New Mexico.
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| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsWith this film the cowboy genre moves beyond modern and postmodern. You could call it postmillennial, post-apocalyptic, post-ironic. |
| AV ClubKatie RifeS. Craig Zahler’s horror-Western hybrid Bone Tomahawk is a strange movie, one that might take more than one watch to fully understand. Not that it’s deliberately obscure, or has a plot too complicated to follow the first time around. It’s actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices. |
| CinemaDopeGlenn LovellPart revisionist oater, part 'Hills Have Eyes' splatter-fest ... a tightly constructed trek into enemy territory that becomes increasingly tough to stomach, or shake off ... Russell at his laconic steely-eyed best. |
| StarburstJoel HarleyS. Craig Zahler's ambitious genre bender is Western, black comedy and gory horror movie, all at once and entirely successfully. |
| The Film StageJack GirouxUnlike great westerns that have come before it, Bone Tomahawk isn't one that takes its time to develop its character and story. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyI doubt there’s a huge audience for a movie like Bone Tomahawk, but those who find it may turn it into a new cult classic. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeBone Tomahawk may seem over-indulgent at 132 minutes, yet it’s the wayward digressions of Zahler’s script — navigated with palpable enjoyment by an expert, Kurt Russell-led ensemble — that are most treasurable in a film that commits wholeheartedly to its own curiosity value. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriBone Tomahawk is terrifying and strange, to be sure, but it’s the old-fashioned veneer that makes it beautiful. |
| Film InquiryAlistair RyderLike many esteemed classics of the genre, Bone Tomahawk is an exploitation movie at heart, but has the courage of its convictions to treat its material as a gory grindhouse feature, albeit one made with love and effort. |
| The Herald (Ireland)Chris WasserFor 100 minutes or so, Bone Tomahawk plays out as a clever and truly enjoyable Western... and then the film turns all kinds of nasty. |