The Burrowers (2008)
Film details
View on IMDb ↗CastClancy Brown, David Busse, William Mapother, Jocelin Donahue, Alexandra Edmo, Brighid Fleming, Karl Geary, Christopher Hagen, Doug Hutchison, Galen Hutchison
KeywordsRevisionist Western, Weird West, Cosmic Horror, Body Horror
Review
"An atmospheric, slightly loopy mix of western lore and monster movie shocks – best described as The Searchers meets The Thing... Though shot on a measly US$7million budget, The Burrowers recreates the early West and envisions pure evil with an A-grade attention to detail. As a throwback to the great B-movies of years gone by, it echoes the middle America-vs-monster movie Tremors (1990), the astronauts-vs-monster movie Alien (1979) and the lost campers-vs-monster movie Prophecy (1979). Like those films, The Burrowers is a choice example of this paranoid, claustrophobic, tummy-tightening genre." - Simon Foster, Screen-Space
Ranking history
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