10 Most Violent Westerns Ever Made

The newest film on the list, Bone Tomahawk is the brutal cannibals vs gunslingers Western that combines a love of the classics with the modern work of filmmakers like the Coen Brothers.

Living somewhere between Western, Comedy and Horror, Bone Tomahawk is a strange blend of genres, made hard to watch by some of the stomach-churning violence and macabre themes. The story centres around a mis-matched group of Wild West stereotypes travelling across the desert to rescue three innocent townsfolk from a group of cannibals.

Despite being brutal and maddening, director S. Craig Zahler marches the film along at an unconventional pace and isn’t afraid to tell the story through dialogue and travel. He builds himself an interesting cast of characters with their own hangups, melds them with humour and the film flies by.

By the time we hit the end of Bone Tomahawk and the violence comes, it’s extreme. If you think you’re the kind of person that can watch a man being scalped with a bone tool, let’s see you try. Zahler conjures up the kind of depraved violence that makes the most brutal horror seem like a walk in the park. The film builds up to a climax and boy does it not disappoint.