S. Craig Zahler’s wild Western crosses new frontiers

Bone Tomahawk is skittish about its racism, self-conscious in a manner reminiscent of Django Unchained.

Hybrid Western/horror film starring Kurt Russell is a brutal delight

For those with a head for loopily discursive humor, S. Craig Zahler's debut feature will come as a most violent delight.

Kurt Russell was born to his role in the quirky, wry, grim horror western 'Bone Tomahawk'

Think of "Bone Tomahawk" as Kurt Russell's warm-up for his turn as the grizzled Western archetype/anti-hero of Quentin Tarantino's Christmas gift -- "The Hateful 8." "Bone" is an unflinchingly-violent and stupidly long genre mashup. It's Tarantino without all the anachronisms and swearing. As the grizzled, widowed Sheriff Franklin Hunt, Russell is the reality of this…

It's the kind of existentialist Old West thriller you might expect from a Quentin Tarantino

Dir/scr: S. Craig Zahler. US, 2015. 130 mins

Kurt Russell leads a quartet of men on an against-all-odds rescue mission.

Zahler and his talented cast are willing to take this journey deep into the heart of darkness, and it’s their commitment that makes the entire project more than skin-deep.

If The Searchers crossbred with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it might spawn something like Bone Tomahawk.

It takes a movie like ‘Bone Tomahawk’ to expose the lily-livered laziness of many production-line multiplex movies. Sure, not every element in this western-come

Read the Empire Movie review of Bone Tomahawk. It has a nice line in wry chatter and a pleasantly old-fashioned ‘lost posse’ plot with engaging,...

'Bone Tomahawk': EW review