Sunday 6 November 2016

Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015)

Another genre extension of the Western in which Kurt Russell, who spends a lot of screen time being roughed up these days, as if his grizzled aspect invites it, takes on a bunch of cannibalistic troglodytes. The level of gratuitous violence is jacked up to the levels now demanded of horror films in the Saw vein, and while there is a certain skill in making the viewer cringe and believe that none of the characters are safe, it is basically just a zombie film with stetsons, made with clinical efficiency.

5/10

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