Review #201: Bone Tomahawk (2015)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #56: Bone Tomahawk (2015) First things first, the obligatory "But is this really a horror movie?" discussion. This is a Western. It's a posse film. It's a revenge movie. It's a period drama about life on the frontier. The last thirty minutes fit as horror, sure, but this is a long film (2 hours 15) and so much of it simply isn't horror. That's not to say it isn't good- I think this is a fantastic film. Just, if you're going to watch it for the first time, know that you're going in for a movie about a bunch of men traveling through the Old West and dealing with bandits and gangrene, with a segment near the end that's truly horrific. I've basically already said what the plot of this movie is: A bandit attracts the attention of some sort of half-human/half-caveman Native Americans, who in turn kidnap a couple people from a frontier town. So the sheri...