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Name: Bone Tomahawk
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Genre: drama, horror, western
Released: 2015
Duration: 2 h 13 min
Rating: 7.1

Bone Tomahawk has an iRankMovies score of 76.2/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Death comes for all men.

Release:2015

Runtime:2h 13m

Country:United States

Director:S. Craig Zahler

Language:English

Genre

DramaHorrorWestern

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Keywords

RescueSheriffPrisonerAmbushPoisonredemptionWildernessGore

iRank76

Bone Tomahawk rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 134K votes

Rotten Tomatoes91%

Metacritic72%

TMDb6.879/10· 3K votes

With 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 72/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Bone Tomahawk

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

Cast of Bone Tomahawk

Kurt Russell
as Sheriff Franklin Hunt
Patrick Wilson
as Arthur O'Dwyer
Richard Jenkins
as Chicory
Matthew Fox
as John Brooder
Lili Simmons
as Samantha O'Dwyer
David Arquette
as Purvis
Fred Melamed
as Clarence
Evan Jonigkeit
as Nick
Sid Haig
as Buddy
Maestro Harrell
as Gizzard
James Tolkan
as Pianist
Kathryn Morris
as Lorna Hunt

Bone Tomahawk facts

Budget: $1.8M
Box office: $475.8K

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Visceral brutal violence and uncompromising vision impress horror genre devotees
•Western frontier setting contrasted with horror creates effective unsettling tone
•Methodical character building earns shocking finale emotional resonance

What the audience disliked

•Graphic gore imagery becomes gratuitous overwhelming character narrative stakes
•Slow buildup frustrates viewers anticipating payoff for lengthy patient runtime