{"id":10887,"date":"2016-03-04T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2016-03-01T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T22:40:22","slug":"bone-tomahawk-2015-craig-zahler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10887","title":{"rendered":"Bone Tomahawk (2015, Craig Zahler)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opens with violence and chatty criminals and I’m suspicious because Tarantino-influenced movies are never good. But hey, there’s Sid Haig, and the dialogue is really quite good, so I sat back and enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Blackhat baddies:<\/em>
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Sid is killed straight away, then his fellow cannibal-graveyard-defiler David Arquette (also of cannibal western Ravenous<\/em>) is taken from the nearby town along with the doctor (Lili Simmons, star of TV’s Banshee<\/em>, which is somehow not X-Men<\/a><\/em>-related) and young Deputy Nick. So a four-man team heads out to track and rescue them from evil. It’s a variation on a John Ford-type story, with a few modern twists (woman doctor, cave-dwelling troglodytes distinct from the more reasonable natives).<\/p>\n

D. Ehrlich:<\/p>\n

It adds up to approximately nothing, and never seems to make the most of its accomplishments (the business of dealing with the bad guys is more than a little shrugged off), but 4 men \u2014 the right 4 men \u2014 shuffling through the frontier in search of god knows what… works for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3 of the right 4 men:<\/em>
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The four men: Sheriff Kurt Russell (this makes a nice Hateful Eight<\/a><\/em> companion), the doctor’s injured but determined husband Patrick Wilson, pro Indian-killer Matthew “Racer X<\/a>” Fox, and the primary reason to keep watching, Assistant Deputy Richard Jenkins as Stumpy<\/a>. They don’t seem especially optimistic about their chances, and this is justified when they reach the caves – Fox is killed but takes down a handful of cannibals with him, and the others are imprisoned, where they witness this movie’s big gory reason to exist: Deputy Nick being split clear in half by the titular tomahawk. Fortunately they’ve left Wilson behind, and he mounts a last-minute rescue.<\/p>\n

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M. D’Angelo:<\/p>\n

Zahler does reasonably well by the genre visually, given his budget, but flavorful Old West dialogue (“You been squirtin’ lemon juice in my eye since I came in here” \u2014 this in response to Kurt Russell’s priceless delivery of the line “You’re pretty angry for a guy named Buddy”) and amusing riffs on stock characters are the main attraction here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opens with violence and chatty criminals and I’m suspicious because Tarantino-influenced movies are never good. But hey, there’s Sid Haig, and the dialogue is really quite good, so I sat back and enjoyed. Blackhat baddies: Sid is killed straight away, then his fellow cannibal-graveyard-defiler David Arquette (also of cannibal western Ravenous) is taken from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,955,2059,2060,2061,105],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-cannibalism","tag-craig-zahler","tag-kurt-russell","tag-richard-jenkins","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10896,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}