During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
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Kurt Russell
Sheriff Franklin Hunt
Patrick Wilson
Arthur O'Dwyer
Richard Jenkins
Chicory
Matthew Fox
John Brooder
Lili Simmons
Samantha O'Dwyer
David Arquette
Purvis
Fred Melamed
Clarence
Evan Jonigkeit
Nick
Sid Haig
Buddy
Maestro Harrell
Gizzard
Director
S. Craig Zahler
Tagline
"Death comes for all men."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1,800,000
Revenue
$475,846
Production
Caliber Media Company, The Fyzz, Realmbuilders Productions, Twilight Riders, The Jokers Films, Platinum Platypus, RLJ Entertainment
John Chard
February 14, 2016
It's sure to be a bone of contention... Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, Bone Tomahawk stars Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins and Lili Simmons. Music is by Zahler and Jeff Herriott and cinematography by Benji Bakshi. Ah, yes, the horror western hybrid, a most difficult thing to get right at the best of times, even harder to entice newcomers to the sub-genre ...
Reno
July 14, 2016
> Meet the most savage people of the American native. This was one of the three western films I've watched back to back recently. The other two were 'The Salvation' and 'The Homesman'. They all were totally different from each other and I enjoyed them a lot. I did not know what this title means, but I learnt it before going for it which means some kind of axe used by the American Indians. So I ...
Wuchak
November 23, 2020
_**Slow-burn Indie Western with a quality cast builds to a potent climax**_ In the 1890s, four men in the Southwest -- a sheriff (Kurt Russell), his aged deputy (Richard Jenkins), a gunslinger (Matthew Fox) and a wounded cowboy foreman (Patrick Wilson) -- set out to bring back captives kidnapped by a mysterious nameless tribe that lives several days ride away. Lili Simmons plays the cattleman’s...
inspectors71
February 2, 2023
Fugly. There were so many things to dislike, hate, and/or projectile-vomit from this ghastly horror that I am a little embarrassed about how I couldn't wait to grab some alone time to watch Bone Tomahawk. This is a gorge-suppressingly awful movie that is too long, more tedious than suspenseful, and features a man getting scalped, strangled, and split in two, crotch to chops. I thought the w...
CinemaSerf
February 9, 2026
At the scene where one of his townsfolk was killed and three were kidnapped, sheriff “Hunt” (Kurt Russell) discovers a fragment of a weapon made of bone and that leads him to believe that it’s a tribe of troglodyte natives who live in distant caves who are behind the crime. Unsure why they have uncharacteristically ventured into “Bright Hope”, he recruits the injured husband of one of those missin...
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