The Burrowers

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The Burrowers

R

2008

1h 36m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Western

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A rescue party comes face to face with underground creatures attacking a town.

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John Anderson

Variety

10/02/2008

The pacing is too pokey by half, and the payoff is a wrenching disappointment.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 12

3/5

An otherwise underwhelming experience is elevated entirely by the Western setting.

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

01/15/2020

"The Burrowers" is a very good movie, maybe the best I've seen in quite a while.

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Sean Axmaker

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04/21/2017

... a real western/horror/monster movie with a devoted frontier sensibility and loving nods to The Searchers.

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Simon Foster

Screen-Space (Substack)

07/28/2012

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.

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Lucius Gore

ESplatter

05/22/2009

2.5/4

... proves once again that the old west still isn't the ideal place to set a monster movie.

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Robert J

Aug 30

Good movie way better than 35% well acted cool creatures. Just not happy ending. Still new idea at least 75 %

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Logan D

Apr 11

After his intended fiance goes missing, a cowboy gathers a group of men to hunt down the indians they suspect kidnapped her. This is a concept I love. Monsters and cowboys. With a nod to The Searchers, Petty crafts an unevenly paced but enjoyable creature feature. Athough many scenes are cheapened by obvious costumes, some are brilliant. I loved the closeups of the creatures faces and the design of their rear legs. Tossing in they are the consequence of the white man's actions is apropos but not overbearing. Also funny they have one scene that includes a Wilhelm Scream.

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Kristy S

Mar 19

It was an ok movie but the ending was terrible! If they made a sequel it might have not disappointed me as much, but the ending was just so open ended and didn’t solve anything.

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Kashgar A

03/14/2024

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.

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Emilliano Jr S

09/03/2023

Good western horror & period piece.

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CJ S

08/23/2023

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.

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Synopsis

A rescue party comes face to face with underground creatures attacking a town.

Director: J.T. Petty
Producer: William Sherak, Jason Shuman
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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