by Chris Marshall:
Director: J.T. Petty
Cast: Clancy Brown, David Busse
Netflix Synopsis: When the men on a pioneer homestead are brutally murdered and the women and children go missing, a posse sets out to find them, assuming they've been abducted by Indians. But they soon discover that the truth is much more horrific.
Chris: I was mostly interested in The
Burrowers because it fell into a genre I had never seen before:
horror western. I guess I just hadn’t ever thought about it before,
but I realized I couldn’t really think of any other examples of the
genre. I’m sure it exists—Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
series could sort of be considered horror western, I suppose—but I
had never seen such a movie.
As it turned out, the film had
plenty to offer outside the peculiarity of its subject matter. I was
pleasantly surprised by how well it turned out. Sure, there were some
flaws, but for a movie that never saw a theatrical release, it was
quite well made.
