{"id":14619,"date":"2023-10-08T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2037804"},"modified":"2023-10-08T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T20:01:42","slug":"31-days-of-horror-bone-tomahawk-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/31-days-of-horror-bone-tomahawk-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Days of Horror \u2013 \u2018Bone Tomahawk\u2019 (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The western has its fair share of violence, and some of it can be grisly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

S. Craig Zahler’s “Bone Tomahawk” ran with that concept in ways no one saw coming in 2015. His directorial debut takes a nasty turn in the third act, warranting its inclusion in the horror movie club.<\/p>\n

And then some.<\/p>\n

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Kurt Russell stars as Sheriff Franklin Hunt, a decent man who risks everything to save three innocents abducted by a cannibalistic clan. The “Fast and Furious” star is joined by Richard Jenkins, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Fox, and boy, do our heroes face a near-impossible rescue mission.<\/p>\n

The film’s villains are relentless in their savagery, which warrants the oater’s transformation in its pivotal moments.<\/p>\n

“Bone Tomahawk” requires a strong stomach, but everyone will enjoy Zahler’s sharp-tongued dialogue. The talented auteur honors the western mythos with lines that feel both rooted in the past and oddly fresh.<\/p>\n

This is no trip down memory lane. Instead, it’s a brutal re-imagining of the Wild West that gave the film instant cult status. “Bone Tomahawk” even earned a “Carnage Count”<\/a> from a YouTube account specializing in gore.<\/p>\n

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The New York Times praised the film<\/a>, calling it a “witty fusion of western, horror and comedy that gallops to its own beat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zahler, who co-composed the film’s score, told Deadline.com that his film attempted to embrace classic western tropes<\/a> while adding a layer of gore unseen during the film genre’s early years.<\/p>\n

He told Filmmaker magazine that the inspiration for “Bone Tomahawk” came straight from the horror genre – micro-indie horror<\/a>, to be exact.<\/p>\n

I was watching a lot of independent, micro-budget horror movies \u2014 things that cost $5,000 and are made in your mother\u2019s basement. Really, really small things. It\u2019s shot on video. It\u2019s cheap. Some of the acting doesn\u2019t work. But it\u2019s really independently-minded and it\u2019s the personal and singular vision of the filmmakers. I was watching a lot of that and I decided I was going to make one. At that point I\u2019d sold enough screenplays and was doing well enough financially that I was just going to make like a $50,000 indie horror movie that was going to be uncommonly violent.”<\/p>\n

He’s still a western fan at heart, though, and his cinematic favorites are “The Wild Bunch” and “Once Upon a Time in the West.”<\/p>\n

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