The Burrowers is, as far as I can tell, the first of its kinda: a horror/Western film that's definitely unique, but not quite my cup of tea. It's about a ranch hand who is courting a woman, but when she and her family go missing, he seeks help to find them. He believes they've been taken by Indians, but that's obviously not what happened. The movie isn't bad, but it isn't really quite good, either. It's a bit slow for maybe the first 30 minutes or so and then it starts to pick up a bit. There is one scene that takes place in the woods that you don't really expect, and when it happens, it leaves you feeling a sense of dread as to what's to come. My jaw actually dropped and I was like, "Holy shit, I can't believe that happened." Probably the best scene of the film. The monsters are also quite unique and not like anything else I've ever seen in a horror film. They almost resemble giant grasshoppers mutated with humans mutated with naked mole rats. Yeah, I like that description. That's how I thought of them. The ending was pretty decent, but I think overall, the movie was too much Western and not enough horror for me. Clancy Brown and Doug Hutchison do make it worthwhile, though. They both played nasty ass prison guards in two different Stephen King films, and putting them together in another horror film made me very happy. If you didn't know, Clancy was in The Shawshank Redemption(fucking awesome film) and Doug was in The Green Mile(also a fucking awesome film). The cast of The Burrowers also includes Sean Patrick Thomas(Save the Last Dance), William Mapother(Lost; best fucking show on TV), and Karl Geary(Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story). Overall, the movie does have its moments, but if you're looking for gore or some really scary suspenseful horror, you won't find much of that in The Burrowers. I'd give this one a 3/5. If you can watch it online, do so and save your money until you form your own opinion.
Happy Nightmares, my loves.
