Best Horror Western of 2010s with The Hateful Eight Star Lands on Netflix in July
Did you know that a Western movie can be scarier than many horror flicks?
Should the Western be confined to a narrow historical framework? Of course not. You can mix the Western with horror and end up with one of the most outstanding projects in both genres.
In the centuries-long history of the western genre, almost no one has succeeded in weaving horror into films about the Wild West. And only S. Craig Zahler has shown that it is not only possible, but that Western and horror can mix into an explosive cocktail in the best sense of the word.
Bone Tomahawk takes the formula of a cowboy movie – a long journey of the characters from point A to point B. And then, after a long and leisurely preparation, it suddenly strikes from above with uncompromising violence and cruelty, sparing neither the viewer nor the characters.
What is Bone Tomahawk About?
The inhabitants of a small town live in an oppressive atmosphere of total fear: a tribe of cannibalistic Indians has been discovered in their area. Sheriff Hunt, his friend 71-year-old Chicory, cowboy family man Arthur O'Dwyer and one of the town's most mysterious residents, John Brooder, who has his own hidden motives for revenge on the Indians, set out to hunt them down.
The road to the hideout turns out to be fraught with danger, and when they reach their destination, the characters will discover something they could never have imagined in their bloodiest fantasies.
Bone Tomahawk is a Perfect Blend of Western and Horror
Bone Tomahawk begins as a typical story of confrontation between cowboys and Indians – one enters the territory of the other, a conflict is born, revenge, persecution and retaliation grow out of it. And for almost a hundred minutes, the movie does not even try to go beyond the boundaries of the genre, nor does it need to.
Only the last quarter of the movie scares you with a picturesque and extremely naturalistic execution scene – otherwise it is a movie which spends more time on conversation than on action.
And this is where Bone Tomahawk can be compared to Quentin Tarantino, because sometimes the dialogues about abstract topics, which are started by the characters of the Western, resemble dialogues from Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction.
Where to Stream Bone Tomahawk?
Bone Tomahawk will be available on Netflix on July 15.