With 2015 quickly winding down, this Tuesday’s genre-related home entertainment releases involve only two great indie films from this year, Bone Tomahawk and Some Kind of Hate, with the latter finally making its Blu-ray bow. In either case, I can’t think of a better way to cap off your year by sitting down with Kurt Russell and a pack of cannibals.
Bone Tomahawk (RLJ Entertainment, Blu-ray & DVD)
When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell), sets out to bring them home. But their enemy is more ruthless than anyone could have imagined, putting their mission – and survival itself – in serious jeopardy. Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight, Tombstone) leads an all-star cast, including Patrick Wilson (Insidious), Matthew Fox (“Lost”) and Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) in this gritty, action-packed thriller chronicling a terrifying rescue mission in the Old West.
Some Kind of Hate (RLJ Entertainment, Blu-ray)
Relentless bullying has turned Lincoln’s life into a nightmare. But he soon learns the true meaning of terror when he is sent to a remote school for troubled teens and the harassment starts all over again. Only this time, someone is watching – a teenage girl named Moira who was driven to suicide by vicious bullying years ago. When Lincoln accidentally summons Moira from the grave, he unleashes a vengeful and unstoppable force on a mission of blood-soaked revenge. Hell on earth has a new meaning in this gruesome shocker "guaranteed to please any and every type of horror fan" (Fangoria).