DVD Review: The Burrowers: Clancy Brown, Doug Hutchison, William Mapother, Karl Geary, Sean Patrick Thomas, Laura Leighton, Galen Hutchison, Alex Edmo, Jocelin Donahue, Phil Parmet, Joseph Lo Duca, J.T. Petty: Movies & TV
DVD Review: The Burrowers: Clancy Brown, Doug Hutchison, William Mapother, Karl Geary, Sean Patrick Thomas, Laura Leighton, Galen Hutchison, Alex Edmo, Jocelin Donahue, Phil Parmet, Joseph Lo Duca, J.T. Petty: Movies & TV
Product Description
The Dakota Territories. 1879. A handful of brave pioneers maintain isolated settlements in the badlands beyond civilization. Irish Immigrant Fergus Coffey is near to winning the hand of his beloved Maryanne when she is suddenly taken from him, her family brutally abducted in a nighttime attack on their homestead. Suspicion falls immediately on hostile Indians. Experienced Indian fighters Will Parcher and John Clay form a posse and set out to rescue the kidnapped settlers, taking along a naïve teenager hoping to prove himself a man, an ex-slave looking for his place, and their ranch-hand, Coffey. But as men vanish in the night, and horrific evidence accumulates with the dead and dying, the group discovers that their prey is far more terrifying than anything human, and their prospects are far more terrible than death.
Played Out Like a Scary Two-Hour X-Files Episode,
By E. Barrios
(N.Y.C.) -
I didn’t know what to expect when I put the DVD into the player, but I wanted to give it a shot based on what I read in the product description. When the movie finished, however, I knew this was going to be the best horror movie of 2009.
For some reason, I felt like I was watching a long X-Files episode even though the movie takes place in the 1800s. As a matter of fact, the guy who played the commander of the calvary was the same guy who appeared as “Eugene Victor Tooms” in the first season of the X-Files.
I understand it had a run at the Toronto International Film Festival but I don’t know how it did.
I don’t want to make any more comments about this film because I don’t want to ruin it for you. I will say that Hollywood needs to make more horror movies like this.
One more thing, FEARnet is showing the prequel to this movie called Blood Red Earth. It runs for 18 minutes. Check it out. That’s what I’m going to do right now.
This movie stands out from the crowd,
By K. Gorten -
Every once in a while a horror movie comes along that stands out. The Burrowers is one of those movies. From the minute it starts, you feel you’re watching something you haven’t seen before. In this era of “me too” movies, that’s the highest compliment I can pay it. Thank you Hollywood for sending us something different. The acting was top notch, the plot was great, and I was completely entertained from beginning to end. I bought this one, it’s not a rental.
The Burrowers (Beneath),
By The Northern Light “The Kingdom of God Is Wit… (Europa, Close to Ultima Thule) -
I don’t know if this is officially based on Brian Lumley’s 1974 story about “The Burrowers Beneath”, but at least unofficially it is. I haven’t read that story of his yet, but I hear good things about it, so I decided to check out this film when it came out yesterday. Turned out to be a great film, and probably the best horror-film of 2009! The film is set in 1879 and the end of the Amer-Indian wars is approaching, but still the bluecoats make their presence felt out on the few frontiers left. The film starts out with a family being attacked in the night by unknown forces, and from there it turns into a beautiful and intense film.
This really made me want to read the story even more, and not to ruin the film any more for potential viewers I’ll just place it in the genre of “Western horror” with the occasional love story put in there. Almost everything about this film is great; the cinematography is breathtaking, taking place in and on the outskirts of the forest and the prairie. Some of the characters were too stereotypical, though. The token black freed slave, the silent Amer-Indian and the “evil racist” aren’t exactly things we haven’t seen 10000 times before, but they might be in the book, I don’t know. That being said, I found it to be an excellent cast, with great actors such as Clancy Brown (Father Justin in “Carnivale”!) and Doug Hutchison. Interestingly, it also contains quite strong references to ethnic conciousness among Euro-Americans as well, not only among every other imaginable people. Let’s hope that sets a new trend, God knows we could surely use it these days!
Highly recommended for all lovers of horror, Western, the great outdoors and generally just an intense movie. It is a bit violent after a while, but generally I loved the film, and the creatures are quite scary. 5 stars, without a doubt.
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