Kurt Russell's Tombstone Couldn't Be More Different From His Second-Best Western Movie
After starring in one classic western with the old-school gem Tombstone in 1993, Kurt Russell pivoted to a wildly different western with the subversively gory thriller Bone Tomahawk. With apologies to Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, which is a great snow-western whodunit in its own right, the best western that Russell has starred in since Tombstone is S. Craig Zahler’s grisly horror movie Bone Tomahawk.
2:15 Related The 1990s' Tombstone vs. Wyatt Earp Western Movie Battle Had One Clear Winner Tombstone and Wyatt Earp battled it out to be the best 1990s Western. Looking back years later, there's one clear victor and it's not even close. Despite being made in the ‘90s, Tombstone looks and feels like it could’ve been made in the ‘50s at the height of the genre’s popularity. The acting has a delightfully old-fashioned clip to it, the cinematography has the static framing and traditional camera setups of an old Hollywood classic, and the story’s standard ethics of good versus evil — the lawmen versus the troublemakers — feels like a refreshing return to a simpler time.
1 There’s a truly disturbing scene in Bone Tomahawk in which one of the cannibals rips a person in half right down the middle, and Zahler shows the whole thing in all its horrifying glory. By bringing another genre into the mix, Bone Tomahawk proved that the hundreds of previous westerns had only scratched the surface of what could be done within the genre.
There’s plenty of shock value in Bone Tomahawk’s gory violence, but that’s not all the movie has to offer. The scenes of the posse traveling across the frontier into the clan’s territory give the audience a chance to really get to know the characters. Not only does this make it all the more horrifying when those endearing characters start getting picked off; it ensures that Bone Tomahawk feels like a proper western, a la The Searchers or The Cowboys.
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