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Robert Englund Really Wants You to See Cannibal Western ‘Bone Tomahawk’
One of my favorite things about Robert Englund is that he’s always watching and talking up new horror movies; whether at conventions across the country or on Twitter, the legendary horror icon can often be found recommending movies to his legions of fans, which always puts a smile on my face. But what is Englund’s favorite horror movie released in the last few years?
The folks over on TMZ did something useful for a change this week, conducting an impromptu little chat with Englund about what he’s been watching. In addition to heaping some praise on Jordan Peele’s Get Out (did anyone *not* love that movie?), Englund also named the recent horror film that made him “ruin his underwear”: S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk.
Englund said of the 2015 film:
The movie that ruined my underwear last is called Bone Tomahawk. It starts out like an old school Howard Hawks western, with ya know John Wayne… Dean Martin… only this time it’s Kurt Russell and Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox from “Lost.” And then it mutates into a full blown western cannibal revenge movie. It’s unbelievable. It’s only about a year and a half old. Check it out.
Personally speaking, Bone Tomahawk was one of my favorite movies released in 2015, and I can’t possibly recommend it enough. Just know it’s not for the squeamish – one scene in particular is easily the most graphically disturbing kill I’ve seen in any movie in a long, long time!
In the film, “Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.”
Check out the trailer below.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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