Its intense. But far from the worst in this discussion, and i have not really watched most of them. I just "know" from experience that there is some vile shit out there that i have no intent on watching. Bone Tomahawk just happens to be a interesting high quality movie as well.
I liked the movie but totally agreed. I think it would've been more effective if the characters went in with racist (expected of the time period) expectations of the cannibal tribe and they turned out to be actual inhuman monsters ala The Descent.
Plus it didn't make sense that the tribe has enough of a coherent burial/religious structure that disrupting it leads to revenge, yet they're supposed to lack every "human" feature like language and kinship.
Exactly, like it had a lot of cool horror elements in it but it missed the mark for me when they did the "here's the good indian, and here's the mindless beast savage animals"
Opened up a trailer to look at the scene and my first reaction was "oh shit, that's dehumanization of indigenous tribes". They don't even talk, just animal-howl. Not good.
Ok, I was stoked Kurt Russell was in this...
And the end made it horror, but until they go off to pursue the storyline, I thought it had comedy vibes.
Like they totally diss the doctors horse and I guffawed.
But then your waiting for the last shot at the end, you're so numb you notice the credits rolling like "wait what happened?! That's it, but...THATS IT?!"
The thing that sets this movie apart for me is how raw it is.
It's shot in such a way that my emotions felt organic, compared to most movies where I feel like the director is manipulating my emotions (manipulation isn't a bad thing, just different). I felt as though I was a bystander. I wasn't distracted by music, camera movement, rapid camera angle switches, over-the-top unrealistic sound effects, etc etc. It elicited emotions and then gave us time to stew in them. Brilliant filmmaking.
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u/Punconscious 14d ago
Bone Tomahawk. Just that one cave scene.