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The Burrowers
In the Wild West a rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers that has vanished from their home under mysterious circumstances and soon comes face to face with underground creatures attacking a town.
21 May 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
8 November 1981, Bristol, Connecticut, USA
24 July 1968, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
25 August 1948, Travis County, Texas, USA
26 May 1960, Dover, Delaware, USA
19 February 1985, Porcupine, South Dakota, USA
April 17, 2009
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 to entertain its absurd grindhouse sensibilities.
May 22, 2009
... proves once again that the old west still isn't the ideal place to set a monster movie.
September 10, 2008
J.T Petty takes viewers on an unusual and frightening venture into the Old West with The Burrowers.
October 08, 2008
Sets you up for 'predictability' in both the western and horror departments, and then subverts those expectations time and again.
October 12, 2008
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.
April 21, 2017
... a real western/horror/monster movie with a devoted frontier sensibility and loving nods to The Searchers.
September 22, 2008
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 motion.
July 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.
April 23, 2009
rewarding both as a horror film and a period piece.
October 02, 2008
The pacing is too pokey by half, and the payoff is a wrenching disappointment.
October 28, 2008
...a sporadically entertaining yet thoroughly ineffective misfire.