The Burrowers (2008)

Director: J.T. Petty

Starring: Clancy Brown, David Busse, William Mapother

In the Wild West a rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers that has vanished from their home under mysterious circumstances.

I really enjoyed the Western setting for this horror. The film starts of promising, but then becomes way too slow moving for such a short film (96 minutes). There’s also always the promise of something about to happen, but then doesn’t, to the extent where it became more of a drama about the characters. Don’t get me wrong, it was never boring, just a bit too slow and not entirely what I expected.

The acting was okay, the visual effects were okay. Nothing really blew me away. It was a very different cowboys and Indians film, a very different Western, and a very different horror. In a way, this was like ‘Tremors’, just with much less happening and not nearly as interesting or entertaining. The film does live up to the horror genre during the final moments, but I fear I’m gonna forget this one very soon. It wasn’t bad; just not memorable enough…