The Kurt Russell Western You Need To Watch According To Stephen King
By DANIELLE RYAN
Horror writer Stephen King took to Twitter/X recently to recommend an overlooked Western starring the always-great Kurt Russell: S. Craig Zahler's 2015 film "Bone Tomahawk."
The film stars Patrick Wilson as Arthur O'Dwyer and Russell as Sheriff Franklin Huntwhose, who are trying to find Wilson’s wife after she is kidnapped by cannibalistic cave people.
The Western becomes a full-blown horror film by the end. It’s definitely a film one could picture King writing, with complex, world-weary characters and unimaginable horrors.
King says, "The dialogue alone makes it well worth watching. Beware the last act, when a man is literally torn apart." Though it’s not a traditional Western, it’s phenomenal.