The Burrowers
The Burrowers is a 2008 horrorthriller film with a Western theme. The film is based on an original short film, Blood Red Earth, from director J. T. Petty.
A species, called Burrowers by the Natives, used to subsist on buffalo. When white settlers depleted the buffalo, the species began to survive on human meat first hunting nearby Indians and later the settlers. One tribe in particular, the Ute, have experience in combating the hunterspecies. The Burrowers first lace their victims by cutting them and drugging them with a toxin. The victim is then buried alive and eaten only after decomposition has begun. By the time the films protagonists meet up with the Ute their numbers are severely depleted, but the Ute method of drugging someone already infected with Burrower toxin proves effective. When the Burrowers go to eat the twice drugged victim they themselves fall asleep and are vulnerable, especially to the rays of the sun, which are the only apparent thing that can kill them. However, the surviving member of the posse, the Irishman Coffey, is unable to discover exactly what the Ute used to drug the Burrowers, as most of the remaining Ute are executed by the overzealous Cavalry. The film ends with the suggestion that the Burrower attacks will continue. In addition to the environmental message about changing ecosystems, the film assesses prevailing attitudes towards Blacks and Natives amongst the settlers in the West, with special focus on the brutality of the US cavalry.The film failed at securing theater distribution and only played at the Fantastic Fest and the Toronto International Film Festival. The Burrowers has been available on DVD as of April 21, 2009. ........
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