Bone Tomahawk

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Movie
German title Bone Tomahawk
Original title Bone Tomahawk
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 132 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director S. Craig Payer
script S. Craig Payer
production Jack Heller ,
Dallas Sonnier
music Jeff Herriott ,
S. Craig Zahler
camera Benji Bakshi
cut Greg D'Auria ,
Fred Raskin
occupation

Bone Tomahawk is an American western released in 2015 that also uses some elements of the horror genre . It is the first feature film by writer and screenwriter S. Craig Zahler . The main role of the film is played by Kurt Russell . The film premiered on September 25, 2015 at Fantastic Fest and received a limited release in the USA on October 23, 2015 by RLJ Entertainment . In Germany, the film was released directly on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on January 21, 2016 .

action

1890 somewhere in the Wild West: The two criminals Purvis and Buddy are killing sleeping settlers and taking their belongings when they suddenly hear horses galloping. You leave the dead settlers and immediately come across an Indian burial site. The cannibal Indians living there kill Buddy by shooting an arrow in his neck and eviscerating him while he is alive. Purvis can escape.

Chicory, the sheriff's first deputy , makes his nightly tour of peaceful Bright Hope. He observes a stranger who buries his things outside of town and then goes to the local saloon. Chicory reports this to the sheriff, Franklin Hunt. This is worried and wants to take a closer look at the stranger.

Arrived at the saloon, the stranger pretends to be a buddy (in fact, it's Purvis), but when Hunt is questioned about himself, he panics and attacks Chicory. Hunt then shoots the stranger in the leg. The law enforcement officers then take the injured person to jail and call doctor Samantha O'Dwyer for help. She is supposed to treat the prisoner and make sure that he does not die from the injury, especially since he has a high fever.

That actually settles the matter for Hunt and the rest of the city's residents. The following day, however, Samantha, the stranger and one of the deputies disappeared without a trace, as did some horses, and a man in the stable was slashed. Hunt finds a special Indian arrow at the scene and brings it to a local Indian. He found out that the arrow was being used by the troglodytes .

Hunt sets out with Chicory, Samantha's husband, Arthur O'Dwyer, who has a sick leg, and Brooder, an Indian hunter, to find the abductees and bring them back. Since time is of the essence, they decide to make the actually five-day journey, which leads to the unexplored territory of the cannibals, in just three days.

At the beginning of the trip everything goes according to plan, but this changes on the second night when two Mexicans approach the group's camp and Brooder shoots them without further ado. However, these were only the vanguard of a gang, who cut loose the horses of the group that same night, but can then be chased away. This event eventually causes the group to split up, as O'Dwyer is slow to advance due to his leg injury and sends the others forward to rescue the abductees.

While O'Dwyer passes out while resting from a heavy dose of opium, Hunt, Brooder and Chicory enter the territory of the primitive tribe, where they are promptly ambushed by the warriors. They can kill three of the attackers, but Brooder is fatally wounded and Hunt and Chicory have to flee, but are attacked again and dragged off to the cannibals' cave and locked up.

Meanwhile, O'Dwyer wakes up from his faint and unsuspectingly follows the path marked by Hunt. This and Chicory are briefly reunited in the cave with O'Dwyer's wife and the deputy sheriff, but the latter is then torn open lengthways and eaten by the cannibals. After the Indians disappeared, she explains that the cannibal tribe is now believed to have only twelve members: two crippled, pregnant women and ten warriors. The three decide to use the strong opium tincture to poison and kill the chief and his two guards, but they can only kill one guard, as the chief immediately spits out the tincture and the last one drops the bottle.

O'Dwyer has meanwhile reached the station and already suspects something bad after finding the things of Hunt and Chicory. He is also attacked from an ambush, but can kill both attackers. He examines the corpses and finds out that the cannibals communicate via bony pipes in their throats and unceremoniously rips one of these pipes out of the dead man's neck. Using the pipe, he lures two more warriors and kills them, then sneaks up to the cave.

The chief now returns to Hunt, Chicory and O'Dwyer's wife to torture and kill Hunt, along with another cannibal. Shortly before they succeed in the latter, O'Dwyer suddenly appears in the cave and shoots the chief and the other Indian. He frees his wife and Chicory, but Hunt explains that he will not survive because of his severe injuries. They leave him with a rifle because he wants to kill the remaining three. As they flee, they can hear three more shots from the cave, so the tribe is defeated, which is why Chicory throws away his stone, which is used for defense.

production

In 2012, Zahler wanted to film his "horror western", the script of which he had already written in 2007, with Kurt Russell and Jennifer Carpenter . But production dragged on for well over two years, so Carpenter left the project. Her part was eventually cast with Lili Simmons. Were also Peter Sarsgaard , Michael Wincott and Timothy Olyphant provided for the film, but also got out all. Filming finally began with a new cast on September 29, 2014 and ended on October 26, 2014. The budget was approximately $ 1.8 million.

reception

The film was largely received positively and praised for its dialogues, direction and realism. As of August 27, 2019, the film has a rating of 7.1 (out of 10) on the IMDb and a rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes . He got a score of 72 on Metacritic .

The film service judged: “A blend of a classic western storyline with gruesome splatter scenes. Despite convincing actors and sophisticated dialogues, the film is not always up to the requirements of the genre and has some lengths and redundancies. "

Michael Meyns von Filmstarts awarded 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote: “With the traditional western tale of kidnapped whites, director Zahler takes on one of the central motifs of the genre, which is always about the difficult relationship between the ethnic groups. [...] If "Bone Tomahawk" ends in pure horror after a slow start, then this is a coherent punch line with a regrettable reference to the present: The national founding myths of the Western appear as finally perverted and are reinterpreted as harbingers of an apocalypse of violence. "

Trivia

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Bone Tomahawk . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 155 998 V).
  2. ↑ Production data in the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ Budget in the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ Rating on IMDb. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Review on Rotten Tomatoes. Accessed August 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Review on Metacritic. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Film review on film service
  8. ^ Michael Meyns: Film review on film starts

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