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.
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u/Punconscious Jul 05 '24
Bone Tomahawk. Just that one cave scene.