Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Summary: Four
men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from
cannibalistic cave dwellers.
I love the simplicity of this summary.
The movie followed in the same suite. It didn't try to do anything
more. No need to try to shock it's viewers or throw some unnecessary
plot twists. It followed one simple story and stayed with it the
whole time and was very well done.
Any movie where the opening scene is a
man slicing the throats of dead bodies will definitely draw my
attention right out of the gate. And unlike some of the other movies
I have seen recently, this one kept my attention the whole way
through.
This was a great combination of horror
and western. It was like Tombstone meets Hills Have Eyes/Cannibal
Holocaust. A doctor was called in to the police station to treat a
mysterious stranger in town who was shot in the leg and than
arrested. The next morning the doctor, deputy, and stranger are
missing. The sheriff heads out to find them, leading a search party
consisting of another deputy, the doctor's husband, and a man who
volunteered to help because he was the one who got the doctor so he
felt responsible. They go deep into the desert where they are
confronted by a cannibalistic tribe living in the hills.
It has a semi-slow pace to it. It
doesn't drag on to the point where interest is lost but it spends a
decent amount of time and character development and making sure it
really gets the story across. This movie is very well written with
both a very believable plot as well as very convincing dialogue.
The acting was phenomenal from the top
of the cast to the bottom. There were really good cameos by James
Tolkan (Back to the Future), Michael Pare (Bad Moon), Sean Young
(Blade Runner), David Arquette (Scream), Jamison Newlander (The Lost
Boys), and Sid Haig (Devil's Rejects). It's generally been my
experience that when a movie is loaded with cameos like this one is,
they normally can;t afford a solid leading cast. Luckily, this was
not the case here. The cast is lead by Kurt Russell (The Thing),
Patrick Wilson (Insidious), Richard Jenkins (Cabin in the Woods),
Matthew Fox (Lost), and Lili Simmons (Banshee). There was not a
single role in this movie was done poorly, and this includes the
actors who portrayed the cannibals; most notably Robert Mukes (House
of 1000 Corpses), Brandon Molale (The Collection), and Geno Segers
(Banshee).
Unlike most cannibal movies I have
seen, this was not an over the top gore fest. In fact, there was
very little involved at all. However, the few scenes that were gory
were very well done... and one of the scenes could be a bit difficult
for “normal” people to watch.
I only found 2 issues in the movie that
I wasn't a big fan of. For one, the hostages were being held captive
in what may have been the most easily escapable cage I've ever seen.
The end did leave a little bit to be desired as well. While it
didn't leave any lose ends, it did fall a bit flat. By no means was
it bad enough to not watch the movie though. This is one of the
better “straight to DVD” movies I've had to review all year. I
enjoyed it so much that I didn't even mind that I paid to order it
on-demand. I may just have to go out and buy this one.
reviewed by Bobby
No comments:
Post a Comment