This infuriating nonsense starts when two particularly unpleasant
bushwhackers get disturbed during there bloodthirsty work and run off into the
surrounding wilderness only to stumble into a sacred Indian burial ground which
these two ignorant human beings desecrate. In the following fracas one is
killed while the other flees to the nearby town of Bright Hope and is
subsequently jailed by the sheriff. During the following night strange things
happen and it ends up with the deputy sheriff and Samantha, the assistant
doctor, being abducted. The local token Indian recognises an arrow that the
abductees have left behind and informs the sheriff that it belongs to a
nameless tribes of troglodytes, which incidentally means 'cave dwellers', from
somewhere called the 'Valley of Starving Men'. Up pops a posse to form a rescue
party that has to include Samantha's husband who spends the rest of the film
hobbling about on one leg due to an accident.
The slowness of the film gets worst when the posse lose their horses and
have to walk to starving men's valley. Once they arrive all sorts of nasty
things happen, with various members of the party getting their comeuppance for
appearing in this daft movie. Normally i like westerns but not this one. I
suppose to be fair the cast doesn’t make a bad job; mind you most are seasoned
performers that include Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins, Patrick Wilson and
Matthew Fox. Directed and written by S. Craig Zahler who also composed the
films soundtrack. If I'm correct this is the former cinematographer’s debut
directorial outing and whose next movie goes by the title of Brawl in Cell Block 99, maybe I’ll give
that a miss, and please don’t be fooled by what’s written on the Bone
Tomahawk (2015) poster!
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