After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
Score
Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn's bonkers banjo-gothic masterpiece.
Acting
Robert Carlyle's feral, seductive, absolutely unhinged performance.
Direction
Antonia Bird's tonal whiplash between slapstick and genuine horror.
Director
Antonia Bird
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