Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Definitely different from most run of the mill revenge Western, but too many lagging parts. Majority of the movie is the 'trip' itself. In addition, one of the characters could give Jar-Jar Blinks a run for the money in needless, annoying talking.Not really horror because there are not any scares or monsters or similar.

Picked this movie out of a bargain bin, attracted by the fact that it had some good people in it. LOVED Kurt Russell in "Tombstone" and being led to think that this was (supposedly) another Western, we were looking forward to it. I mean, they don't make too many Westerns anymore.And they didn't make one this time, either.In fact, we sat through it and by the end, really had no idea exactly WHAT it was that we'd just sat through. Or in my case, WHY I'd sat through it.Kurt Russell will always be Kurt Russell and I think he'll always be good in any character portrayal, as he was here in the role of the Sheriff. In my mind, he will always BE Wyatt Earp, in one of my favorite Westerns. But this movie kind of morphed from Western to Science Fiction to outright blood-and-guts gruesome and hideous Horror. Took some seriously sick minds to come up with some of the gore portrayed in this movie and I actually had to look away several times, although the sound was still horrible!There were a lot of impossibilities in this movie. I did like Matthew Fox's portrayal of an eccentric and rather creepy character, but I'd like to know, first off, what he was thinking by going through his days in a dirty, dusty frontier town dressed in a dapper white suit, and secondly, how he managed to stay so clean ... until he was attacked by those "creatures," that is. Then, a guy wracked with fever because of a gangrenous leg simply could not drag himself through a desert all alone (especially with cannibals lurking about which brings me to wonder why in the world they didn't nab him?? An easy meal if there ever was one! I mean, being crippled and all ...). Then, the lack of outright blubbering hysteria on the part of the captured wife when the Sheriff and "Chicory" (loved that name!) were dragged into the cave had me totally baffled! Why she wasn't huddled in the back corner in a tight, quivering ball of terror, scared completely out of her mind, just escaped me! Instead, when she saw them, she seemed very calm and almost bored as she immediately greeted the Sheriff. Amazing! A braver, stronger and more even-keeled little gal than me, that's for sure! And again, she was still so clean!My husband didn't say much but I found the one critique he did have hilarious: "You know, hacking a guy in half just wouldn't happen that 'cleanly.' There'd be all kinds of internal stuff to deal with and he wouldn't just pull apart like that.." No. He probably wouldn't.And I still can't figure out what the crippled pregnant women really had to do with anything.We both agreed that the movie was "really awful" and we felt let down because that group of actors deserved a better movie. There are lots of people who like lots of gore and if that's the case, they're gonna LOVE this movie. But for those of us who still appreciate actual Westerns and have seen these actors in much better roles, we both found ourselves actually wishing we hadn't watched it. It was horrible and haunting and nothing like we were hoping it would be.

Tension and suspense was great, liked the splicing of a western/ horror. The end was a lot more gruesome then expected.

This movie has flaws, no doubt. But it has a very good true western feel for about 3/4 of the film and then takes a hard left into very scary horror territory. The cast is great! Matthew, Kurt and Patrick look amazing! The stand out for me though is the script. I don't know that it is exactly historically accurate but the cast doesn't sound like they're fresh out of 2015 either. See it if you like westerns and horror. Also see it if you like Westerns but hide your eyes for the last act if you don't like horror.