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Movies that feel like Bone Tomahawk (2015)

If you loved Bone Tomahawk, the closest films we have are Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Let the Right One In (2008) and The Babadook (2014). All three share Bone Tomahawk's contemplative and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on MGM Plus, Amazon Prime Video and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. S. Craig Zahlercontemplativedreadunsettlinggritty

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street poster
🍅 86%7.3drama · horror

Contemplative and dread-soaked in the same breath

The difference: Missing the grit of Bone Tomahawk

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

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Let the Right One In
2008 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 98%7.8horror · drama

Murder is the engine of both

When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.

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The Babadook
2014 · dir. Jennifer Kent
🍅 98%6.8drama · horror

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

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mother!
2017 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 68%6.6horror · drama

Horror with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

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Carrie
2013 · dir. Kimberly Peirce
🍅 51%5.8drama · horror

Both keep circling back to murder

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

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The Eyes of My Mother
2016 · dir. Nicolas Pesce
🍅 78%6.2drama · horror

Both trade on dread more than on being western

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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Under the Shadow
2016 · dir. Babak Anvari
🍅 99%6.8drama · horror · war

Unsettling drama in both cases

The difference: Plays it as war more than Bone Tomahawk does

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

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It Chapter Two
2019 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 62%6.5horror · thriller · drama

Horror built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Leans thriller where Bone Tomahawk does not

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

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The Shallows
2016 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 78%6.3horror · drama · thriller

Dread-soaked western in both cases

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

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The Orphanage
2007 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 87%7.4horror · drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

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First Cow
2020 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 95%7.1drama · western

Both trade on grit more than on being western

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Both are drama through and through

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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