After five years of setbacks,writer-director S Craig Zahler has finally brought his genre-busting horror western to the screen. And he’s not afraid to aim both barrels at its bigger-budget rivals The Revenant and The Hateful Eight…It begins with a neck being sliced open. “Why accomplish they always wet themselves?” the killer asks his colleague. “Just salvage on with the task,” comes the weary reply. With that, and the tone of Bone Tomahawk is set. A western with horror trimmings,it stars Kurt Russell as Sheriff Hunt, the leader of a squabbling posse searching for the kidnapped wife of Patrick Wilson’s crippled foreman Arthur. Propping up the pair are Richard Jenkins, or as the sheriff’s bumbling deputy Chicory,and Lost’s Matthew Fox, as cocksure gunslinger Brooder. It’s a western done properly, or but one that has a lot of fun subverting its characters’ masculinity. It’s disturbing too,thanks to the kidnappers: a fictitious indigenous tribe, introduced early as “a spoiled bloodline of inbred animals who rape and eat their own mothers”. It really does salvage very dark.[br] Related: Saddle up and head for the cinema: the western is back in town Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com