{"id":83103,"date":"2016-02-19T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=83103"},"modified":"2015-12-22T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:31:38","slug":"bone-tomahawk-film-review-horror-on-the-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/bone-tomahawk-film-review-horror-on-the-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone Tomahawk film review: horror on the frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The \u2018horror Western\u2019 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">subgenre is a small one, so any new additions are more than welcome. While\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0is much more a Western than it is a horror, fans of both genres should find much to enjoy in S Craig Zahler\u2019s brutal slow-burner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">When Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell) puts a bullet in a drifter\u2019s leg, Arthur O\u2019Dwyer (Patrick Wilson)\u2019s wife Samantha (Lili Simmons) is on call to give him medical treatment. Come dawn, they are all missing, abducted by a savage tribe of Native Americans \u2013 a band of troglodytic cannibals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Hunt, O\u2019Dwyer, gunslinger John Brooder (Matthew Fox) and back-up deputy Chicory (Richard Jenkins) set out in pursuit, but with O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s broken leg and the simple fact of four men against the wilderness, do they have any hope of getting back alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Zahler\u2019s Old West as a dangerous, unwelcoming place where horrors are waiting just outside the doors of the little outpost of \u2018civilisation\u2019. It\u2019s a world that these men don\u2019t understand, despite their best efforts, riding into the desert with no time to prepare and no real notion of what they\u2019re going to do when they catch up with their quarry. The quietly trigger-happy Brooder is arguably the best equipped, but he\u2019s so tainted by his hatred of the natives that his only relationship is with his horse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">There\u2019s punishment waiting for these men. When the horror arrives it is brutal, with one sequence sure to turn stomachs and send your hands flying to cover your eyes. It\u2019s the Jack Ketchum-esque final act that brings the leisurely paced film to a punishing end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">There are some problems, mostly with the pacing. It\u2019s overlong at 132 minutes, and the characterisation seems to have been spent primarily on Chicory. However, Jenkins is sublime, and his scenes with Russell are a joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Requiring both patience and a cast-iron stomach, <em><strong>Bone Tomahawk<\/strong><\/em> is an acquired taste, but it stays with you long after it\u2019s over.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wild West meets traditional horror in Bone Tomahawk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":83105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[4767],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Bone-Tomahawk-2015-after-credits-hq.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}