10 Spine-Chilling Horror Movies Set In The Desert
2. Bone Tomahawk
Few movies have successfully blended the horror film and the Western. Of the brave few, Craig S. Zahler's Bone Tomahawk (2015) is king. In the old West of the late 1800s, a small town is attacked by a tribe of cave-dwelling cannibals.
When the Sheriff's Deputy, his prisoner, and a local woman are kidnapped, the townsfolk give chase. Sheriff Hunt (Kurt Russell) and a small team of men travel deep into the desert to recover their people.
Long before we meet the cannibals, Zahler reveals his desert landscape to be an intimidating, unforgiving place. Their mission is a perilous one, leading to a set of dirty, bone-littered caves, filled with the most terrifying cannibals this side of 2005's The Descent.
Like the best desert-set horror films, Bone Tomahawk makes the most of its arid, wide open spaces, making the ravages of the old West feel as hostile and claustrophobic as his Gothic caves and looming mountains.