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      The Burrowers

      R 2008 1h 36m Horror Mystery & Thriller Western List
      73% 11 Reviews Tomatometer 34% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score A rescue party comes face to face with underground creatures attacking a town. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Sep 27 Buy Now

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      Kashgar A This is one of the rare times the critics got it right and the audience wrong. Excellent movie with a gut wrenching ending. Tightly scripted, beautifully shot. The ending was…well, just watch it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/14/24 Full Review Emilliano Jr S Good western horror & period piece. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/03/23 Full Review CJ S Ya know, for a B-horror film, it's not that bad. I was pleasantly surprised. Go in with low expectations, still. The social commentary is not as deep as I suspect the filmmakers thought it was. But, it's far from unwatchable and quite creepy in parts. A fun lil creature western. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/23/23 Full Review Aidan B The movie starts off with promise, however, "The Burrowers" just ends up being a below-average horror film with cheap looking effects, one-dimensional characters, and an extremely chaotic pace that make the film just boring and pretty forgettable. As many people have stated, the cinematography is really good, and the acting from a handful of the actors is plausible. However, overall, the film had a lot of potential but couldn't quite mix the genres all that well, resulting in a lousy mess of a film. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/23/23 Full Review Kyle M The cinematography's the only productive motivation to capture anything slightly horrific in connection to a failed promise while duplicated by inspiration from past acclaimed westerns as substantial excuses, particularly since the story turned out blandly repetitive by non-commitment, purposeless out of lost narrative maintenance capped by unsatisfying incompletion, and insignificantly unmemorable, disposable characters disregarding the flow. (C-) Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/16/22 Full Review Audience Member Really surprised this one has such poor ratings. It's one of my favorites! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      John Anderson Variety The pacing is too pokey by half, and the payoff is a wrenching disappointment. Oct 2, 2008 Full Review Ard Vijn ScreenAnarchy "The Burrowers" is a very good movie, maybe the best I've seen in quite a while. Jan 15, 2020 Full Review Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand ... a real western/horror/monster movie with a devoted frontier sensibility and loving nods to The Searchers. Apr 21, 2017 Full Review Simon Foster Screen-Space Director J.T Petty's nasty romp followed up Alex Turner's Dead Birds (2004) and preceeded John Geddes Exit Humanity (2011) in the Old West/monster movie mash-up genre; it may well be the best of them. Jul 28, 2012 Full Review Lucius Gore ESplatter ... proves once again that the old west still isn't the ideal place to set a monster movie. Rated: 2.5/4 May 22, 2009 Full Review Keith Breese Filmcritic.com rewarding both as a horror film and a period piece. Rated: 3.5/5 Apr 23, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A rescue party comes face to face with underground creatures attacking a town.
      Director
      J.T. Petty
      Producer
      Peter Block, John Sacchi
      Screenwriter
      J.T. Petty
      Production Co
      Blue Star Pictures
      Rating
      R (Violence and Gore)
      Genre
      Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Western
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 16, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 36m
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