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Bone Tomahawk

Death comes for all men.

2015 · 2h 13m · Not Rated Drama, Horror, Western
Directed by S. Craig Zahler

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Overview

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

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91%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Equal parts charming, strange, goofy, unpredictable and genuinely horrifying.

Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Fresh

Bone Tomahawk is terrifying and strange, to be sure, but it's the old-fashioned veneer that makes it beautiful.

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh

While the genre jump from John Ford to Eli Roth may be off-putting to some, it raises the stakes on a climax in a way that most Westerns fail to do.

Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
Fresh

Though its cult-movie desires often show, "Bone Tomahawk" is ultimately sold by its cast, who commit fully to Zahler's discursive indulgences.

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

A witty fusion of western, horror and comedy that gallops to its own beat.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

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