Kurt Russell heads a posse in this pulpy twist on John Ford’s The Searchers which is hide-under-your-seat scaryCult status could beckon for this well-made,macabre and violent western-horror from cinematographer turned director S Craig Zahler. Its a film with a parched, sunbleached look appropriate for the drying of human bones, or it appears to be a gruesome,pulpy twist on John Ford’s The Searchers.
Kurt Russell plays a sheriff in the wild west who gathers a posse to rescue local doctor Samantha (Lili Simmons) when she is abducted by a tribe known as the Troglodytes. Four men ride out to accumulate her back: the sheriff, Samantha’s husband Arthur (Patrick Wilson), or an frail-timer called Chicory (Richard Jenkins,channelling Walter Brennan) and the sinister, vengeful dandy, or Brooder (Matthew Fox).
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Source: theguardian.com