Partly inspired by H. Rider Haggard’s Lost Race Tales and The Virginian. The days of the old west are waning and it's the turn of the century at the border of Texas and New Mexico. An outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope. The wife of a local rancher Samantha O’Dwyer and a prisoner Purvis in the jail are kidnapped. The sheriff Franklin Hunt, his aging deputy Chicory, a strong-willed gunslinger John Brooder and the husband of the kidnapped woman Arthur O’Dwyer set out to find the captives. The husband has an injured leg but he is determined to go on the rescue mission. It’s much more difficult for him since he needs a crutch to walk.
This is an unusual Western with some gruesome parts that I wish I had not seen at all!! Brutal, gory violence, slicing, digging into wounds, severed limbs and body parts, injuries from guns, arrows, dead bodies and other grisly scenes. This is probably OK if you are looking for something different but it was too different for me!! The scenes are not so bad until the rescuers meet up with the Troglodytes. A very unusual people to say the very least!! I would like to have them and their behavior permanently erased forever from my mind!! 1/2* ( I hated this movie)
132 min, Drama directed and written by S. Craig Zahler with Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, Evan Jonigkeit, David Arquette, Fred Melamed, Sid Haig, Maestro Harrell, James Tolkan, Kathryn Morris, Zahn McClarnon, Michael Emery, Jeremy Tardy.
Note: Imdb 7.1 out of 10 with 76,369 views, Rotten Tomatoes 91% with 93 critics 73% audience with 13,437 scores, Roger Ebert 3* Brian Tallerico, The Guardian 4* out of 5* Peter Bradshaw, Empireonline 4* Kim Newman, Common Sense Media Jeffrey M. Anderson, age 18+,1* positive, 1* role models 5* violence, 3* sex, 3* language, 1* drinking, drugs and smoking, Amazon 3.2* out of 5* with 14,627 reviews.
Special Note: Filmed on Paramount Ranch, Agoura, California. The budget for this film was $1.8 million. Matthew Fox said he enjoyed making this movie more than any other film and he always wanted to be in a western. Originally, Peter Sarsgaard and Jennifer Carpenter were set to play the O’Dwyers and Timothy Olyphant was to play John Brooder. The possibility of shooting in New Mexico and Utah were considered before Southern California.
Trogodytes: The word means cave goers. They were a people mentioned in various locations by many ancient Greek and Roman geographers and historians.
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