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Kill of the Week: Split Down the Middle in ‘Bone Tomahawk’

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Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.

Debut features are rarely as impressive as Brawl in Cell Block 99 director S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk, a hybrid horror-western that earned Zahler favorable comparisons to another filmmaker who became a bold force of nature in his debut outing: Quentin Tarantino.

An incredible ensemble cast including Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins, Matthew Fox and Patrick Wilson (along with brief appearances from Sid Haig and David Arquette!) star in Bone Tomahawk, the tale of a sheriff and three other men who embark on an epic rescue mission after a deputy and doctor are kidnapped by a band of vicious Troglodytes.

The film starts off as a slow burn Western, driven by writing that’s as good as the individual performances, but when it embraces the horror… oh boy does it get ugly.

One particular scene is one of the most shocking in recent years. Locked up by the cannibal clan, Russell and Jenkins’ characters are forced to watch as they brutally dismember another human being, removing his scalp with a knife and then pulling his legs apart and splitting him down the middle with the titular weapon.

It’s one of the most savage and barbaric kills in cinema history, and Zahler forces you to watch every second along with the horrified characters behind the cage.

The sound design, in particular, has probably made at least a few people vomit.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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