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Bone Tomahawk (2015) Directed by S. Craig Zahler

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Bone Tomahawk will be released on Steelbook Blu-ray + DVD on October 24 via RLJE Films. This edition of the 2015 horror-western was previously only available as a Walmart exclusive.

S. Craig Zahler (Brawl in Cell Block 99) writes and directs. Kurt Russell stars with Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Lili Simmons, Richard Jenkins, Evan Jonigkeit, Kathryn Morris, Sid Haig, David Arquette, and Fred Melamed.

Existing special features are included. They're listed below, where you can also see more of the Steelbook artwork.

Special features:

Making-of featurette

Fantastic Fest Q&A

Deleted scene

Poster gallery

When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell), sets out to bring them home. But their enemy is more ruthless than anyone could have imagined, putting their mission – and survival itself – in serious jeopardy.

Pre-order Bone Tomahawk.

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[rogerckeller]

Horror westerns. Kurt Russell in S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk. If they ever adapt Blood Meridian, Zahler could handle it.

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Never cross posted here!

Yes, I got big on a video on Lightlark, a bad book everyone knows. But my passion is bad books NO ONE has ever heard of. Which isn’t very marketable, but hey.

S Craig Zahler makes very brutal movies I’ve never seen but I did read his extremely embarressingly edgy book that also includes Shadow Moon Squid Hell.... and goddamn do I love Squid Hell

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Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler, 2018).

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"Bone Tomahawk" (2015) Directed by S. Craig Zahler (Drama/Horror/Western)

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S. Craig Zahler: Wraiths of the Broken Land (2013)

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Movie Review | Dragged Across Concrete (Zahler, 2018)

This review contains mild spoilers.

I decided to give this a rewatch after being mixed on Brawl in Cell Block 99 to see how it held up. The thing that lingered heaviest in my memory was the scene where the cop protagonists played by Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn, having been suspended for being caught on camera brutalizing a suspect, sit across a table from their lieutenant played by Don Johnson as all three of them complain about political correctness. And that scene is as embarrassing as I remembered, the cinematic equivalent of your crazy uncle’s Facebook post. But it is followed shortly by Johnson gently pushing back against Gibson, positing that while he’s certainly sympathetic to Gibson for all his years of service, he did use much more force against the suspect than necessary and that all these years on the street have made him lose his compassion. (Johnson’s involvement may have been another factor in my decision to revisit this. He has limited screentime but is well used, as his presence is softer than Gibson’s and reads as less overtly reactionary. Plus you get old photos of Crockett and Riggs side by side, although the latter is sporting his suburban dad Lethal Weapon 4 haircut instead of the wild man mullet of the earlier, better movies.) On paper this isn’t unlike how the other movie hedges its bets by placing an overt racist character alongside the hero even while proving said character’s words true with its depiction of another set of Latino criminals. (This movie uses a similar trope, but its juxtaposition is less clumsy.) But here, the scene comes after seeing Gibson and Vaughn in the field, where on top of roughing up a suspect, they engage in racial taunting of the suspect’s girlfriend while she’s scared and vulnerable and after manipulating her into cooperating, promptly go back on their word. Put this against Vaughn’s unceasingly righteous hero in the other movie, and the gestures towards complexity here feel more sincere.

There is plenty of objectionable material in the movie along these lines, but you feel it trying to challenge its own views. There’s the cartoonish depiction of the black bullies who taunt Gibson’s daughter and the dialogue his wife is saddled with, and the demeaning fate one of the major black characters is subject to, but this is put up against the presence of a third protagonist, a low level black criminal played by Tory Kittles who sees his involvement with some more dangerous criminals as a way to alleviate the impoverished situation of his family. You could argue that the movie is pulling from stereotypes here too, but to me the depiction of this his family read as empathetic, drawing parallels to the economic difficulties faced by Gibson and Vaughn. And while Kittles is a lower key presence than the other actors, I do like how the movie lets his intelligence sneak up on you. The fact that it eventually shows him to be a more honourable man than Gibson, might read as provocation in the “fooled ya good, ya dumb liberals, stick that in your pipe and smoke it” strain in the context of S. Craig Zahler’s career, but I’d like to think Zahler has been nudged into expanding his outlook. I seem to be in the minority here, but compared to the other movie, it reads less cleanly to me as a reactionary text and more earnestly at war with its ideological shortcomings, not entirely unlike the heroes. Who knows, with a few more movies, we could turn Zahler into a Bernie Bro. For now, let’s just keep the conversation strictly on economic policy and not talk for more than two minutes. Yes, people are facing hardship. Polite nod. Handshake. And call it a day.

And on the whole, I think this is substantially better directed than the other movie. Zahler’s patience once again makes great use of his performers. The casting of Gibson seems in part like a stunt, but the darkness of the actor’s offscreen life hangs over the movie interestingly, making the extent to which he’s morally compromised a lot more convincing. And it goes without saying that he’s as intense and committed as ever. I think Vaughn struggles with his accent and catchphrase, but because Gibson is so damn good, he lifts up Vaughn as well, and I like the texture the movie applies to their camaraderie. The men communicate in a mixture of jargon and percentages, delivered tersely and sarcastically to mask any warmth or affection. During a rare moment of emotional vulnerability, one of them concedes that he’s at a loss for words, as if their masculinity presents something of a trap. And I liked the way Kittles’ subtle intelligence and instincts for self preservation compare to their more forceful presences, and the way the movie parallels his camaraderie with Michael Jai White with the relationship between Vaughn and Gibson. There’s also a rich cast of high impact supporting players, some of whom, like Udo Kier, Fred Melamed and Jennifer Carpenter, seem to be part of Zahler’s stock company.

I also think Zahler’s patience gives the movie a compelling structure. This runs even longer than Brawl, but while that movie seems to spin its wheels before we get to the prison scenes, here I appreciated the way the movie slowly metes out information. The villains’ heist plan and capacity for cruelty doesn’t come into focus until far too late, which has the morbid effect akin to watching two cars for the entirety of their trip up to the moment they crash into each other and then observing the gruesome aftermath in slow motion. The extreme violence doled out by the villains has a pulverizing effect, leaving no gesture of weakness, doubt or basic compassion unpunished. (As morbid as it sounds, one brazenly exploitative detour taken by the movie ends with an image that makes me think this would have had quite the impact in 3D.) The mean streak affords a few laughs too, like when one of the criminals shoots the merchandise and fixtures out of spite after killing a hapless convenience store clerk and a customer with bad timing, although the relentless racial provocations of one particularly ruthless character might be a bit too much to take. The climax plays out seemingly in real time, moments of unbearable stillness punctuated by bursts of horrific violence, captured in yellow filters that evoke the film’s bleak, jaundiced worldview and austere compositions strip the proceedings to down the strategic possibilities and probability of death that each character is faced with. This last stretch is so potent as pure suspense that it makes the movie worth seeing despite its shortcomings.

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People recommend me more movies like S. Craig Zahler's Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl In Cell Block 99 PLEASE

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Dragged Across Concrete (2018), dir. S. Craig Zahler

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Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015). 

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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

Skipping right ahead to the last Puppet Master movie, and the last one I saw, because I am in the mood for a little bit of a rant. As you can tell by that delightfully tactful title, this reboot basically swaps things around so that the puppets and Andre Toulon, instead of fighting Nazis, are Nazis. Now keep in mind as I say this that I am no prude, my taste in films can attest to that, but I find the idea of taking characters that have previously been strong opponents of something like Nazism, and having them go for it, is really distasteful to be honest, especially these days when alt-right groups are such a big problem again. It didn't work well when someone did that to Captain America (I love that the films decided to boil that entire stupid plotline down to a joke in Endgame), and I don't think it works here. Plain and simple, this is edgelord Puppet Master, going "I'm here to push buttons" when it's just being an insensitive arse. I get the sense that a lot of this comes from the script by S. Craig Zahler, whose other works show this streak (like being OK to give Mel Gibson a starring role again). I'm not going to go too long into all this, as I don't really enjoy writing a really overtly negative review like as I used to, but I will just get off my chest that in my opinion, though it does pull off some impressive gore and carnage, this mean spirited reboot is kind of the worst direction the property could have gone in.

Still, I will say one nice thing about this; a new score by Italian horror veteran Fabio Frizzi, that's pretty cool.

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[rookie-critic]

Bone Tomahawk (2015, dir. S. Craig Zahler) - review by Rookie-Critic

Bone Tomahawk was gruesome. Like, there's some incredibly graphic stuff in this movie. There were times when it didn't feel like I was watching a western. Actually quite a few horror elements in it, which was surprising. I thought that the acting was good and the suspense and practical effects were incredible. If you can stomach the more brutal aspects of it I'd say it's worth a watch.

Score: 7/10

Currently available for streaming on The Roku Channel and PlutoTV.

#Bone Tomahawk #S. Craig Zahler #Kurt Russell #Patrick Wilson #Matthew Fox #Richard Jenkins #David Arquette #Lili Simmons #film review #movie review #2015 films

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Horror Movie Review: The Incident (2012)

You won’t feel good after experiencing The Incident but you will remember it.

Also going under the name of Asylum Blackout, The Incident was directed by Alexandre Courtès and written by S. Craig Zahler. It stars Rupert Evans, Dave Legeno, Anna Skellern, Richard Brake, Kenny Doughty and Joseph Kennedy. Flying completely under the radar when it first came out, The Incident is a delightful surprise of a horror/thriller. One with a solid story, likable characters, impressive…

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