Released late in 2015, This crossover Western/Horror film was shot right about the same time as Quentin Tarantino's "Hateful Eight", and Kurt Russel sports the same wonderful mustache in both to wonderful effect.
I heard about this film from the crew at the "F! This Movie" Podcast in their 2015 movie roundup. It clearly had an impact on the host, Patrick Bromely, but was so well spoken about that I knew I would have to track it down. It appeared on Netflix sometime later, and I took advantage of the break over Christmas this year to watch.
I knew that there was one scene in there that was of particular noteworthiness. A scene that was so graphically intense, the phrase "I can never un-see that" had been used about it more than once.
Now, I'm not a big horror fan. The classic slasher films (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St. etc) have no appeal to me. Buy there's something about the crossover of genres that makes me take a look. I have had wonderful fun watching "Shawn of the Dead" and "Cabin in the Woods". I had more fun in "CABIN" than I really should have, since I hadn't seen any of the referenced films, but I knew enough about them to get much of the referenced material. (And now my wife and I attend the occasional "Horror and Tequila" nights with friends of our, where we screen some campy horror movie and make jokes as the screen so prolifically that between the rewinding to hear dialogue we talked over and stopping to get more tequila, a 90 minute movie takes about 3 hours.)
So, Bone Tomahawk was a Horror/Western crossover, and with Kurt Russel heading up the cast, AND with strong recommendations from F! This Movie, I had to check it out. It is a surprisingly good western: Good characters, good dialogue, good acting, good cinematography. But overlaid with a very graphic, bloody, violent story element that it's not for the easily queasy.
AND... that scene you can never un-see? Yup. never unseeable. Pretty much the most horriffic death-at-the-hands-of-cannibals scene ever. It shows up on several "10 most brutal death/most violent death/most horriffic death scene" lists on the internet. A quick google will let you see one minute you may never forget.
All that said, If that's your thing, I recommend this film.
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