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Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Bone Tomahawk is a Western film that follows Sheriff Franklin Hunt, who gathers together a group of fighters to save three kidnapped victims from a clan of cannibals. After the town's doctor is kidnapped along with two others, forcing the sheriff to partner with the town's Native American professor and find the tribe before it's too late.

Bone Tomahawk
Not Rated
Western
Adventure
Documentary
Horror
Thriller
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Director
S. Craig Zahler
Release Date
October 23, 2015
Cast
Patrick Wilson , Kurt Russell , Sean Young , Lili Simmons , Matthew Fox , Zahn McClarnon
Writers
S. Craig Zahler
Runtime
132 minutes
Budget
$1.8 million

Summary

In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.

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