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

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

Oct 2, 2008

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

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

Jan 15, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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Keith Breese

Filmcritic.com

rewarding both as a horror film and a period piece.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 23, 2009

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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

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Emilliano Jr S

Good western horror & period piece.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/03/23

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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