WhileTombstonedoes feature plenty of violence and death, its depicted in a tasteful way.
Corral to the Earp Vendetta Ride.
Kilmers turn as Holliday has been lauded as one of the most memorable performances in movie history.
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.
In the 90s, the western genres heyday was long gone.
The biggest hit westerns of the 90s, likeUnforgiven, were similarly bleak deconstructions of the genres conventions.
ButTombstonewas different it wasnt a brutal deconstruction of the classical western; it was an affectionate throwback to it.
Bone Tomahawkmarked S. Craig Zahlers directorial debut.
Bone Tomahawkwasnt the first western to feature horrific, blood-soaked violence.
ButBone Tomahawktook the violence furtherthan even Leone, Corbucci, and Peckinpah did.
Theres plenty of shock value inBone Tomahawks gory violence, but thats not all the movie has to offer.
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Even if the horror elements were removed, it would still be a great western.
Tombstone chronicles legendary marshal Wyatt Earp and his brothers as they seek fortune in a prosperous mining town. Forced to confront a gang threatening the community, Earp joins forces with the infamous Doc Holliday, highlighting a tense battle between lawmen and outlaws in the American West.
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.
