10 Horror Movies That Don't Start As Horror Movies
8. Bone Tomahawk
From a quick look at the key art for S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk, most would surely assume it to be a pretty straight-laced Western with few surprises up its sleeve. And even though Zahler's film is a brutally violent affair from its opening scene onward, it takes one hell of a turn in the third act, when the central heroes are attacked by a tribe of inbred cannibals referred to throughout as "Troglodytes."
At this point, Bone Tomahawk becomes a Western quite like no other, as the group is painstakingly brutalised in stomach-churning fashion by the Troglodytes, with one particular kill being one of the most horrifyingly grotesque of any horror movie from the last decade.
The first 90 minutes-or-so of the picture belie what it becomes thereafter, transitioning from a stark, gorgeous Western into one of the most viscerally violent horror films in recent memory.
Bone Tomahawk definitely isn't a movie for everyone, but the leap from one genre to another is jarring in extremely effective fashion.