Karl Geary,
William Mapother,
Sean Patrick Thomas,
Galen Hutchison,
Clancy Brown
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When a family of Dakota Territory pioneers is violently abducted and a posse is assembled to venture into the badlands and rescue them, the frightening truth they discover in the hills leads them to b... read more
DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
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November 14, 2010Decent creature feature, with several familiar faces in the cast. The creatures are interesting looking, but not really terrifying. The film is competent, but not extraordinary. Don't expect any twists that you wont see a mile away, and you can come away with a decent experience.... read more
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September 4, 2010If you want a western creature feature with great cinematography, this is your flick. Decent but not memorable.
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May 18, 2010This is my second horror-western straight-to-DVD since Tremors IV as well as this is surprisingly good.
This movie is really more of Western that happens to have some horror elements thrown in. Go into it expecting to watch a "cowboys and Indians" film and I think you wil... read more -
May 5, 2010Ending was really disturbing to me. It could be something else. I mean the producer must be really bored when making it. That's why the ending was so lame. But anyway, it was not worth watching.
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December 25, 2009A western horror flick, go figure. Its 1879 and once again cowboys are blaming the Indians for everything. When a rash of killings take place, farmers shooting there own wife and children and then themselves the local law and other ranchers are blaming the Indians, when children ... read more
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December 16, 2009A band of courageous men sets out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, the group prepares for a routine battle. But they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from ... read more
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April 29, 2009Original idea of mixing the Western with the monster movie genre but the film drags on and ends with a most unsatisfying and abrupt conclusion.
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August 18, 2011The very low buget version of "Cowboys & Aliens." It pretty much had the same exact story, except the so called "burrowers" in this film lived underground. A pretty interesting film.
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Critic Reviews
October 2, 2008
John Anderson, Variety
May 22, 2009
Lucius Gore, ESplatter
... proves once again that the old west still isn't the ideal place to set a monster movie. Full Review
April 23, 2009
Keith Breese, Filmcritic.com
rewarding both as a horror film and a period piece. Full Review
April 17, 2009
Brian Orndorf, DVDTalk.com
Petty is pursuing a more measured, sympathetic take on demons that feast on the gelatinous innards of innocent victims, manufacturing a tediously wandering picture that craves substance while itching ... Full Review
October 28, 2008
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...a sporadically entertaining yet thoroughly ineffective misfire. Full Review
October 12, 2008
Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com
At his most placid, JT Petty can make Terrence Malick look like Guy Ritchie. But when he's not going full-'bore', his quiet, creepy brand of terror works on several levels. Full Review
October 8, 2008
Scott Weinberg, FEARnet
Sets you up for 'predictability' in both the western and horror departments, and then subverts those expectations time and again. Full Review
September 22, 2008
Karina Longworth, SpoutBlog
Beautifully shot and tightly scripted, it's the rare Hollywood genre film that's more concerned with human relationships and behavior than the mysterious supernatural forces that sets the action in mo... Full Review
September 10, 2008
Johnny Butane, Dread Central
J.T Petty takes viewers on an unusual and frightening venture into the Old West with The Burrowers. Full Review
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