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Bone Tomahawk is a 2015 horror western movie, written and directed by S. Craig Zahler. It stars Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins and James Tolkan.The plot concerns four men who venture on a rescue mission into Injun Country, facing a tribe of primordial, cannibalistic cave-dwellers.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: Of the rescue party and kidnapped hostages, only the O'Dwyers and Chicory survive.
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Splatter Horror
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Splatter Horror: The film contains numerous extremely brutal and drawn-out scenes of violence, with Nick's scalping and bisection being the standout sequence.
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One Last Smoke
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One Last Smoke: John Brooder lights a cigar before making his Last Stand.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: While Mrs. O'Dwyer and Chicory are screaming and bawling as Nick's brutal death unfolds before their eyes, all Sheriff Hunt can do is stare with a speechless but fuming expression.
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Villain Opening Scene
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Villain Opening Scene: We're introduced to the villains attacking Purvis and Buddy before we're introduced to the heroes.
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Cool Old Guy
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Cool Old Guy: While Sheriff Franklin is not exactly in his prime, the title goes to Chicory: apparently in his late sixties, or even early seventies, but can still keep the pace and provide help. He even survives in relatively good shape.
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Contemporary Caveman
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Contemporary Caveman: The troglodytes are heavily implied to be a species of early hominids that somehow managed to survive into the 19th century. The Professor notes that his people have no name for the troglodyte tribe and that no other local tribes claim any kind of relation, culturally or ethnically, to them.
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ManBehindTheMan
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Man Behind the Man: It's strongly implied that the mayor's wife is the one who is actually running the town via Henpecked Husband.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: That's Sean Young as the wife of the mayor. B-movie stalwart Sid Haig as the older bandit. Noted character actor James Tolkan as the drunken pianist. Zahn McClarnon as the Professor.
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Mutual Kill
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Mutual Kill: Brooder is killed by a troglodyte's tomahawk, but manages to shoot his attacker in return before dying.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Poor Nick. First he gets his scalp removed and jammed into his throat with a hammer and chisel. He is then held upside-down and takes several hatchet blows to his groin, which makes it easier for two of the tribesmen to split him in half by pulling on his legs. It's all but stated that Purvis was killed the exact same way offscreen.
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Fingore
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Fingore: When Hunt tries to break out of his cell to save Nick, a cannibal casually slashes at his hand to make him stop.
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Ambiguous Situation
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Ambiguous Situation: The film ends with the O'Dwyers and Chicory hobbling back towards Bright Hope and hearing three gunshots echo, assuming this means Sheriff Hunt killed the last three troglodyte males unaccounted for in Samantha's estimate of twelve. However, it's entirely possible there were more than she had seen, that Hunt didn't get three consecutive killshots, or that the troglodytes took his gun and used it themselves.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: The cannibals are a particularly disturbing twist on this, with the emotionless way they hideously butcher Deputy Nick as casually as regular people carving a turkey carcass.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The tincture of opium, which is used by the captive characters to poison some of the troglodytes and give Arthur a fighting chance.
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Sinister Southwest
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Sinister Southwest: The film is about a local posse led by the local sheriff takes on a Cannibal Tribe of contemporary cavemen in an unspecified part of the Southwest during the latter part of the Old West, specifically the 1890s.
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Speech-Centric Work
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Speech-Centric Work: The bulk of the film is dialogue between the characters.
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Red Right Hand
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Red Right Hand: The cavemen's horrific mutations stem from generations of inbreeding.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: The film is remarkably similar to The Burrowers — both of them are indie Genre Mashups of Western and horror and feature similar setups (i.e. a search party goes to rescue missing relatives but encounters a non-human antagonist along the way). Both of them avert Politically Correct History and have an equally cynical outlook on life with themes of Humans Are the Real Monsters.
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Bald of Evil
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Bald of Evil: Buddy is a ruthless bandit without a hair on his head.
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Mauve Shirt
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Mauve Shirt: Nick receives some basic characterization in the beginning of the film, but doesn't really have an impact on the plot other than being one of the kidnapping victims. He ends up providing the film's most memorable and gruesome death scene.
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Beard of Evil
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Beard of Evil: Buddy is perfectly willing to kill innocent people to steal from them, and sports a beard.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: In spite of being a rather scatterbrained and socially ignorant old man, Chicory turns out to be a former soldier with quite a bit of medical knowledge.
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Flaying Alive
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Flaying Alive: The cavemen scalp poor Nick.
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Hospital Hottie
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Hospital Hottie: The lovely Mrs. O'Dwyer, played by Lili Simmons, is the town nurse and back-up doctor.
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Scatterbrained Senior
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Scatterbrained Senior: Chicory is a lovable ol' coot. He turns out to be remarkably competent.
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Inbred and Evil
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Inbred and Evil: The cavemen are inbred beyond comprehension and their entire "culture" is centered on inflicting extreme cruelty on any unfortunate captives they can lay their fingers on for reasons that only make any sense to them.
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Impromptu Tracheotomy
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Impromptu Tracheotomy: Buddy is shot in the throat with an arrow.
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Agony of the Feet
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Agony of the Feet: Hunt slices off the foot of the caveman leader with his bone tomahawk, before doing the same to his head.
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Face Death with Dignity
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Face Death with Dignity: Sheriff Hunt, Brooder, and Nick all come to terms with their impending deaths rather quickly.
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Skewed Priorities
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Skewed Priorities: Wallington is more concerned about his stolen horses than the fact that three people were kidnapped and another was murdered. Sheriff Hunt calls him on it.
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Bandito
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Bandito: The rescue party's horses are stolen by an all-Mexican gang of bandits.
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Hillbilly Horrors
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Hillbilly Horrors: The cavemen are a Western twist on the traditional heavily inbred Cannibal Clan.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Arthur, Samantha, and Chicory escape from the cavemen, and the remaining troglodytes were most likely killed and thus neutralizing the threat they posed to Bright Hope, but Hunt probably died with them, leaving his wife a widow.
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Damsel in Distress
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Damsel in Distress: While two men were also captured, the focus of the film is on Mrs. O'Dwyer.
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Establishing Series Moment
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Establishing Movie Moment: The first shot of the movie is a prolonged, grisly throat-slitting.
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Killed Offscreen
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Killed Offscreen: Purvis is killed by the cavemen long before the posse arrive. Brooder also dies offscreen.
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Always Chaotic Evil
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Always Chaotic Evil: The cavemen are completely mindless rabid animals who have no human form of communication, are so inbred they're basically a Human Subspecies, and are strictly cannibalistic.
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Gory Discretion Shot
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Gory Discretion Shot: However, most of the violence is either off-screen or downplayed heavily, except near the end. This actually has the effect of making the violence in the finale even more sickening by comparison, because the comparative cleanness early on lulls you into a false sense of security.
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Seinfeldian Conversation
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Seinfeldian Conversation: On one of their first nights on the trail, Chicory and Sheriff Hunt discuss the difficulties of reading in the bath. Near the end, when things are looking hopeless, Hunt, Chicory, and Samantha discuss a flea circus that came to Bright Hope, and whether or not they used real fleas.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: The two female troglodytes have been horribly mutilated. They've had all four limbs amputated and bone spikes shoved into their eyes. The cavemen themselves are examples of this as well, as they have a tradition of drilling animal bones into their bodies as clothes.
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Brooder is killed when a troglodyte throws a bone tomahawk into his head as he shoots him.
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The Gay '90s
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The Gay '90s: The movie is set in this decade with a band of outlaws going into an Indian burial site filled with cannibalistic cavemen.
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Picky People Eater
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Picky People Eater: The troglodytes are complete degenerate scum who will happily rape, mutilate, kill and eat everything and everyone they come across (including their own mothers) but for some unknown reason they draw the line at eating black people.
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Dissonant Serenity
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Dissonant Serenity: Done in subtly disturbing fashion with the way the troglodytes feed. Whenever the cannibals eat someone, they react in a manner that's as casual as...well, a normal human would be with a regular meal. The chief troglodyte looks almost bored while he's absent-mindedly chewing on Nick's severed leg like it's a turkey sandwich.
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Sacrificial Lion
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Sacrificial Lion: Brooder is the most competent fighter in the rescue party, and the first of the posse to be killed.
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Hell Is That Noise
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Hell Is That Noise: The only form of communication the cavemen have are an absolutely inhuman roaring sound that can echo for miles. It turns out they make this by inserting an animal's trachea bone into their throat. It becomes a plot point when several characters are alerted to their presence by this call, and when Arthur rips out one of the tracheas to use as a lure.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: Heavily implied to have happened to Purvis, who is visibly nervous and irritable when he arrives in Bright Hope and thus rouses the suspicion of Hunt and Chicory.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Brooder, the Token Evil Teammate, tears up when he has to put his loyal horse out of its misery.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: Brooder is explicitly treated as the bad guy when he guns down the two travelers in cold-blood, but even Hunt agrees that they must pack up on the off-chance they were bandit scouts. Then it turns out they were all along. Played for Laughs when Brooder asserts to Chicory that he's the smartest man among the party as "smart men don't get married". A rather mean thing to say to an old widower who clearly misses her, but judging from Chicory's reaction, his entire married life flashed before his eyes and he couldn't argue with the point.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Brooder is certainly one to brood.
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Swiss-Army Weapon
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Swiss-Army Weapon: The bone tomahawk has a blunt end that makes it double as a club.
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Noble Bigot
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Noble Bigot: Brooder might be a racist Jerkass, but he's A Lighter Shade of Black when put up against the villains of the movie.
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Human Subspecies
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Human Subspecies: The cavemen are inbred to such an extent that they qualify as a separate species, if they were ever human in the first place.
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The Savage Indian
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The Savage Indian: A twist on the standard trope. The tribe is actually a family of in-bred cavemen. The Professor, who seems to be Bright Hope's resident Native, explicitly states that the local Native Americans do not consider them kin, instead calling them "troglodytes." Southwestern (Paiute) Native American legends tell of giant, ogre-like cannibal humanoids who lived in caves and happened to be the Paiute's worst enemies.
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Played for Laughs
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Played for Laughs when Brooder asserts to Chicory that he's the smartest man among the party as "smart men don't get married". A rather mean thing to say to an old widower who clearly misses her, but judging from Chicory's reaction, his entire married life flashed before his eyes and he couldn't argue with the point.
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The troglodytes live in a place that the Natives call "the Valley of the Starving Men", which is an appropriately scary name for the abode of a monstrous Cannibal Clan.
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From Bad to Worse
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From Bad to Worse: The rescue party was already on a suicide trip, but getting their horses stolen was the final nail in the coffin.
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Bolivian Army Ending
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Bolivian Army Ending: Sheriff Hunt is last seen dying of a gunshot wound to the stomach, preparing to make a Last Stand. In the last scene of the movie, Chicory and the O'Dwyers hear three gunshots, and assume that Hunt got the last of the cavemen. It can be inferred that Hunt finally died after doing so, it just happens offscreen.
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Token Evil Teammate
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Token Evil Teammate: Brooder is the most unlikable and ruthless member of the posse. He has a reputation as a merciless killer of Native Americans, including women and children. He also proves quick on the trigger when he suspects people to be threats, which might help the posse out when he kills a bunch of likely bandits.
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Cannibal Tribe
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Cannibal Tribe: The troglodytes. And seeing how they're all blackout inbred, they also qualify as a Cannibal Clan.
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Off with His Head!
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Off with His Head!: Hunt decapitates the caveman leader with his own bone tomahawk.
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Politically Correct History
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Politically Correct History: The film strikes a balance between this and Deliberate Values Dissonance, acknowledging the antiquated values of the time while still presenting a remarkably progressive Old West: The town's resident Native American is called "the Professor." He's well-dressed, fluent in English, articulate and seems to command some respect in the community. Even still, he must contend with Brooder being a renowned killer of Indians. It's implied that the Mayor's wife is the real authority in the town, but she must act through her husband, who has the official position. Hunt addresses her when he needs something done, but she insists that he make his request to the Mayor. Mrs. O'Dwyer is allowed to see patients in lieu of the resident male doctor, though she must still be escorted through the street when her husband is not available. The two black residents of Bright Hope have lowly positions, but no one displays any racism toward them. When the stable boy is killed, one of the white residents laments his brutal death (although his employer seems more concerned about the missing horses).
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Developing Doomed Characters
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Developing Doomed Characters: We don't actually get more than a glimpse of the troglodytes until two thirds of the way into the film's runtime. Fortunately, the characters we follow up until then are well written, well acted, and interesting.
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Doing In the Wizard
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Shortly after, Mrs. O'Dwyer assures Chicory that the Sanderson's Flea Circus he and his wife saw was genuine even though his wife had already told him the trick behind flea circuses.
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: As if being cannibals wasn't enough reason for us to enjoy them being slaughtered, the cavemen propagate their tribe by keeping their women as baby factories, with their limbs cut off and their eyes cut out so they can't escape or fight back.
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The stable boy is shot in the throat with an arrow, then impaled through the head and chest in rapid succession before being hauled offscreen.
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Gutted Like a Fish
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Gutted Like a Fish: Buddy is disembowelled by the troglodytes in the opening. This is only seen from behind and far away, so we don't see most of the gruesome detail.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Purvis and Buddy. It's hard to feel sorry for them when they make a living killing travelers in their sleep. Nick even mentions that Purvis was such a bastard he completely deserved his awful fate.
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The Speechless
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The Speechless: The troglodytes seem to be incapable of human speech, but can communicate over long distances with loud howls and shrieks. It is eventually revealed that they produce these inhuman sounds by embedding hollow pieces of bone in their throats, which allows them to make that noise at the cost of their ability to speak.
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All Cavemen Were Neanderthals
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All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: The cavemen in the film are superhumanly strong, ugly, and stupid.
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As You Know
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As You Know: Arthur O'Dwyer's wife tells him how she's not going to go over again how he broke his leg by slipping off of the roof while trying to mend it. Arthur counters that she just did.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Chicory and Sheriff Hunt have no idea what kind of mess they have gotten into by jailing Purvis.
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Frazetta Man
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Frazetta Man: The troglodytes are a Human Subspecies of Contemporary Cavemen, have no spoken language or identifiable culture or society, and are explicitly described as being distinct from American Indians.
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Death by Cameo
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Death by Cameo: Sid Haig and David Arquette as the doomed bandits from the opening, though Arquette is able to survive a little longer.
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Let Them Die Happy
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Let Them Die Happy: When Deputy Nick is brutally executed by the troglodytes, Sheriff Hunt tells him that cavalry troops are on their way to wipe out the entire tribe. He is lying, but as he later confesses to Chicory, he wanted Nick to die believing that his death will be avenged. Shortly after, Mrs. O'Dwyer assures Chicory that the Sanderson's Flea Circus he and his wife saw was genuine even though his wife had already told him the trick behind flea circuses. Thirdly, Chicory shouts to Sheriff Hunt that he'll be avenged during the latter's torture as a direct reference to the first instance.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: The Professor wasn't lying when he said the troglodytes would "rape and eat their own mothers."
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: As part of their mutations, the cavemen can tank through almost any attack unless it's directly to the skull. One even survives getting shot square in the throat.
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The Gunslinger
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The Gunslinger: Brooder is the quickest draw of the rescue party.
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Badass in a Nice Suit
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Badass in a Nice Suit: John Brooder wears a nice, white, urban suit in contrast to the darker and more rural fashions of Bright Hope.
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Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon
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Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: The troglodytes use crude clubs and axes made from animal bones, reflecting their brutal, near-animalistic behavior.
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Handicapped Badass
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Handicapped Badass: Arthur O'Dwyer insists on coming along despite his broken and later rebroken and gangrenous leg. He is largely a burden to the group but is actually the most effective of them in the end, managing to kill 4 of the cavemen entirely by himself. Sheriff Hunt kills the final three cavemen offscreen, as we hear three gunshots at the very end, despite bleeding out and dying.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: The pregnant females in the cave. They are blinded and all their limbs are amputated.
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Christianity Is Catholic
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Christianity is Catholic: Justified as Arthur O'Dwyer is presumably of Irish ancestry.
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Dead Star Walking
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Dead Star Walking: David Arquette appears in the opening scene and a few scenes afterwards, and is then kidnapped and killed offscreen by the troglodytes.
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Deliberate Values Dissonance
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Brooder proudly, and openly, brags to the others in the posse that he's "killed more Indians than anyone else here put together."
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Evil Weapon
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Evil Weapon: The titular bone tomahawk is one gnarly-looking and brutal weapon.
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For the Evulz
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For the Evulz: The cavemen's brutality has nothing to do with tradition. They are pure evil, plain and simple.
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Fate Worse than Death
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Fate Worse than Death: The troglodyte women lie in a corner of the cave with bone spikes shoved through their eyes and their limbs all cut off and cauterized, being endlessly raped by their own sons in a cycle of unfathomable incest.
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Tap on the Head
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Tap on the Head: Chicory and Sheriff Hunt are both knocked unconscious for at least several minutes. They seem none the worse for wear.
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Sadist
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Sadist: The cavemen aren't just dumb animals, they're straight up sadistic psychopaths. They are as needlessly brutal and torturous as possible.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: The two bandits really should have known better than to step upon what is obviously an indigenous place of worship surrounded by all sorts of human and animal skulls left there as a clear warning to outsiders, especially after they've already heard the troglodytes' inhuman roars echoing across the valley. To his credit, Purvis tries to convince Buddy that it's probably not a good idea, and runs away immediately once his friend is shot in the throat with an arrow.
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Briar Patching
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Briar Patching: Sheriff Hunt and Chicory pretend to try to chug down whiskey before the troglodytes can get it, but in reality, they want their captors to take it and get poisoned.
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor: When Buddy and Purvis stumble across the troglodytes' burial ground, Purvis suggests that they shouldn't walk through it. Buddy retorts that the burial practices of "godless savages" don't concern a "civilized man" like him. He promptly spits to one side while scratching his groin with his revolver. And, of course, he's just robbed and murdered several people, which is certainly not civilized behavior.
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Love Triangle
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Love Triangle: Brooder is still in love with Mrs. O'Dwyer. He proposed to her before she married Arthur O'Dwyer.
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Blood from the Mouth
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Blood from the Mouth: Hunt coughs up blood several times after getting shot.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Arthur O'Dwyer doesn't tolerate anyone making flirtatious remarks regarding his wife. Especially when it's John Brooder. Justified since she's just been kidnapped by cannibals and Brooder is being particular insensitive, not to mention O'Dwyer is extra-stressed from his injured leg and fully aware he is a burden to the group. They both apologize to one another once they've realized they've stepped out of line.
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Injun Country
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Injun Country: Caveman and Mexican country, it turns out.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Brooder, the racist and coldly pragmatic Jerkass Indian fighter who nevertheless joins the rescue party to try and save the captives.
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Happily Married
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Happily Married: The O'Dwyers, despite snarking at each other, are quite clearly in a loving and happy marriage.
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Monster Misogyny
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Monster Misogyny: The only cavewomen we see are blinded and quadruple-amputated, seen as nothing but Breeding Slaves by their inbred sons.
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Indian Burial Ground
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Indian Burial Ground: The film's plot is kicked off when two bandits, Buddy and Purvis, stumble across the troglodytes' burial site and accidentally desecrate while trying to cross it. Buddy is killed immediately while Purvis manages to escape, leading the troglodytes to Bright Hope.
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Nice Guy
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Nice Guy: Chicory, who never has a bad word for anyone and is generally the nicest of the rescue party.
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Bad with the Bone
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Bad with the Bone: The cannibals use bone weapons, which includes the titular tomahawk.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: Brooder's entire family was murdered by Natives when he was ten, and this led him to become the racist, cynical jerkass Indian hunter that he is.
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It Can Think
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It Can Think: The cavemen are such savages they aren't even regarded as human, but the leader actually does learn very quickly how to use a gun in the climax, unfortunately for Sheriff Hunt.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: The cavemen aren't given a real title in the film, mainly getting called savages or troglodytes. However, their territory is titled "Valley of the Starving Men", and surely not for nothing, all things considered.
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Death by Pragmatism
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Death by Pragmatism: Buddy and Purvis hear horsemen en route to where they just robbed and killed three men, and sensibly decide to hide out in a nearby canyon. Unfortunately for them, their hiding place is inhabited by violent, inhuman cannibals who don't like trespassers.
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Genre Mashup
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Genre Mashup: A horror movie with a Western skin.
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An Arm and a Leg
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An Arm and a Leg: Brooder loses a hand to one of the troglodytes. He doesn't live long enough afterwards for this to present much of a problem to him.
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Impossibly Cool Weapon
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Impossibly Cool Weapon: Aside from having a badass name, the bone tomahawk is both an extremely effective club, and an extremely effective hatchet all in one.
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Character Catchphrase
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Character Catchphrase: Chicory says, "It is the official opinion of the Backup Deputy Sheriff..."
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The only reason Arthur is able to slaughter the cavemen is because he lures them out of hiding with a throat whistle he cut out of one of their corpses. Hunt also uses a bone tomahawk to kill the caveman leader.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Mrs. O'Dwyer tears Sheriff Hunt a new one for letting her husband join the posse despite his broken leg and for leaving him behind in hostile territory.
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Reality Has No Soundtrack
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Reality Has No Soundtrack: Most of the film has no music, except for a few scenes.
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Breeding Slave
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Breeding Slave: The cavewomen are literally nothing but baby factories, because all of their limbs are cut off and their eyes are cut out.
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Doomed Hurt Guy
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Doomed Hurt Guy: Double Subverted. Arthur O'Dwyer breaks his leg before the movie begins, and they leave him behind about halfway through their journey, seemingly playing this straight. The healthy John Brooder is also mortally wounded and left behind to die after he insists that I Will Only Slow You Down. O'Dwyer actually makes it back to rescue the others, and ends up as one of three survivors at the end.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: The dynamite is a fake Chekhov's Gun. They bring it. Brooder is left behind to use it in a last stand. Yet it's never used.
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I Will Only Slow You Down
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A badly wounded Brooder is left behind with a rifle in hand.
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Absurdly Sharp Blade
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: The titular weapon itself. Despite being more like a club, it's still sharp enough to decapitate people with one effortless swipe.
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Reconstruction
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Reconstruction: An interesting one for The Savage Indian, by setting them as clearly distinct from actual Native Americans, making them literally a different species and giving them traits from the Hillbilly Horrors.
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Gorn
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Gorn: Hoo boy, this one really puts the "horror" in horror/western. Don't watch this one while eating heavily. Gentlemen, don't watch this one at all.
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Only a Flesh Wound
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Only a Flesh Wound: While the most grievous injuries receive appropriate attention, many other injuries seem to cause almost no damage. Brooder is stuck in the shoulder with a knife and seems to instantly forget about it. Chicory is also shot with an arrow through the wrist, pinning it to his thigh, which receives no attention thereafter.
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The Load
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The Load: Arthur is injured and limping heavily before he starts the expedition and after the horses get stolen, due to which he asks the rest of the group to proceed forward while he catches up. Ultimately subverted as he ends up killing the most troglodytes despite barely being able to stand and even survives the film.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: The cavemen hack open Nick's junk with a bone tomahawk and try to shoot Hunt in the dick with a repeater. Thankfully, they don't understand cocking. Deputy Nick is bisected from the groin.
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Dumbass Has a Point
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Dumbass Has a Point: Purvis comes across as less intelligent than his partner Buddy, yet he keeps pointing out that things are not right in the valley they're hiding out in.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: Discussed. Brooder admits to killing Indian women as well as men, reasoning that women can also fight. He goes out of his way to mention that children can fight too... It shows how thoroughly Brooder hates them.
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Last Stand
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Last Stand: A badly wounded Brooder is left behind with a rifle in hand. At the end of the film, the dying Sheriff Hunt stays behind with a rifle to kill the last male troglodytes.
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The World's Expert (on Getting Killed)
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The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): Brooder, an accomplished Indian hunter, is the first of the group to die.
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R-Rated Opening
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R-Rated Opening: Despite a Gory Discretion Shot, there are gruesome deaths within the first five minutes, making it clear this is not your typical Western.
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Weird West
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Weird West: The film has a Cannibal Clan of proto-humans as the villains.
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Chicory rather blithely comments on how he couldn't fathom harming a woman or a child immediately after Brooder admits that he has. Sheriff Hunt tells him to shut up.
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