‘Bone Tomahawk’ Trailer: Kurt Russell Hunts Down Some Cannibals In The West
By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2015 1:00 pm EST
Bone Tomahawk sees Kurt Russell as a sheriff who sets out to save some kidnapped settlers from a group of cannibals, and somehow this isn’t a straight-up grindhouse movie. Hot on the heels of the film’s premiere at Fantastic Fest this past week, the first Bone Tomahawk trailer has arrived.
Here’s the Bone Tomahawk trailer:
Reviews were pretty mixed out of Fantastic Fest, but Guy Lodge at Variety liked it:
So maybe this isn’t that great a trailer, but the movie could end up being worth watching later this month. At the very least, there seems to be a solid lead performance from Russell, and a promising supporting turn by Richard Jenkins. The rest of the cast also includes Patrick Wilson and Lili Simmons.
“Cowboys-and-Indians antics have rarely been more antic than they are in “Bone Tomahawk,” a gleefully grisly genre gazpacho that matches a rousing sense of Old West derring-do to a comic sensibility as dark as chewing tobacco — and at least as much of an acquired taste. But for those with a head for loopily discursive humor (not to mention a stomach for some inspired grotesquerie), S. Craig Zahler’s debut feature will come as a most violent delight. Winking explicitly to “The Searchers” with its ostensibly classical tale of four mismatched frontiersmen out to rescue abducted townsfolk from the clutches of a savage (and emphatically fictitious) native tribe, “Bone Tomahawk” may seem over-indulgent at 132 minutes, yet it’s the wayward digressions of Zahler’s script — navigated with palpable enjoyment by an expert, Kurt Russell-led ensemble — that are most treasurable in a film that commits wholeheartedly to its own curiosity value.”
Craig Zahler wrote and directed Bone Tomahawk, and it hits theaters on October 23rd. If you haven’t seen it, check out this cool throwback poster:
