Kathryn Morris UK

Bone Tomahawk Starts Swinging Today

It has been just over a year since news broke that after a prolonged pre-production period Bone Tomahawk started actual production.

The short filming schedule, very small budget, and limited post-production special effects has meant quite a short turn around. Certainly quicker than much Hollywood fare.

Premièring a month ago at Fantastic Fest and screening at a number of other festivals since (with plenty more to come), Bone Tomahawk will be released in US cinemas and via VOD services today (Friday, 23rd October).

The horror-filled western stars Kurt Russell (Death Proof) as Sheriff Hunt, who, along with Patrick Wilson (Fargo), Matthew Fox (Lost) and Richard Jenkins (Let Me In), set out to rescue Lili Simmons (Banshee) from a band of “cannibalistic cave dwellers”.

David Arquette (Scream), Sean Young (Blade Runner), Sid Haig (Jackie Brown), Michael Parè (The Lincoln Lawyer), and James Tolkan (Top Gun) also star.

Kathryn has a small role as Lorna Hunt, wife to Kurt’s Franklin.

UK cinema goers will have to wait until December the 11th.

One Thing Leeds To Another For Bone Tomahawk

They’re coming thick and fast at the moment.

That rather enigmatic log on the right is the symbol used by the Leeds International Film Festival.

The city of Leeds is in the self-styled ‘god’s own country’ county of Yorkshire in the north of England.

Hundreds of screenings, over a dozen venues, all packed in to a full two week long festival. The programme is broken down to five sections. Bone Tomahawk falls under the one titled ‘Fanomenon’ and will be shown as part of a marathon event called ‘Night Of The Dead XV’. It starts, appropriately enough, on Friday the 13th of November at 9pm. The curtain rises on Bone Tomahawk at around 1am on Saturday morning. But they’re only half-way done! The latest horror film from New Zealand, Deathgasm, ends the night with the credits rolling at nearly 7am. I’m not sure I’d be up for that. Some of us have on the Monday after!

Looks like tickets are only available for the whole night event, so are more expensive than they would be for just an individual screening.

You want to know where to find more info? Let me ‘Leeds’ you to it: official website.

Bone Tomahawk Gets Off Scot (Not) Free

More film festival news means Bone Tomahawk will be continuing to stride the globe like a colossus into November.

The award winning film has more US screenings this weekend in Telluride, Colorado.

It’s already been shown in England as part of the BFI London Film Festival. We know the horror western will be in Wales for the Abertoir Film Festival in mid-November and over the water to the Republic Of Ireland and the Cork Film Festival just before that.

How about the other English border?

We’ve now got news that that’ll be covered in early November when Bone Tomahawk jumps Hadrian’s Wall on its way to Inverness.

As part of the schedule of the Inverness Film Festival it can claim to be the Scottish première and the most northerly screening so far.

The Eden Court theatre will be playing host to the movie at 8:30pm on Thursday the 5th of November.

At the heart of Inverness, on bank of the river Ness (which joins the famous Loch Ness and Beauly Firth), Eden Court is approaching its 40th year. The IFF is 13 this year.

But where can you find out more about this event? I hear you ask. How about the official website.

Kathryn Gets A BT Review Shout-out

Since its premiere at the Fantastic Fest film festival there have been a number of reviews of the horror western Bone Tomahawk published. They’ve generally been favourable.

Kathryn’s role, however, has largely gone unmentioned other than in lists of additional cast members. This is hardly surprising given that Lorna, wife of Kurt Russell’s Sheriff Hunt, only makes a some very brief appearances.

The website JoBlo has gone a little further than most in describing some of those big name, small part players:

The town the early scenes are set-in comes to life through the efforts of a truly amazing supporting cast of character actors, including people like James Tolkan as a lazy piano player, Fred Melamed as a barkeep (his saloon is memorably named ‘The Learned Goat’), Kathryn Morris, Sean Young, and even Michael Pare. Most on them only have a scene or two, but like the best character actors they make a huge impression and give the townsfolk real life.

One more thing. Chris Bumbray’s review (read it in full here) suggests that writer/director S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk is not going to be released in the cinemas at the end of this week, just on streaming services. Right from the start Chris writes from the premise that the film should be seen on the big screen and not via VOD. From all the information I can find Bone Tomahawk will be in US theaters from Friday.

SNOB Doesn’t Turn Its Nose Up At The Coin

You probably thought we’d heard the last of The Coin. Me too.

No, it turns up with out warning like a bad penny. But in a good way of course

Yesterday the writer/director/producer of the short film The Coin, Fabien Martorell, let us know that his work has been selected for another film festival.

This time its the people of Boston get the benefit of the 9 minute long drama starring Christopher Lloyd (The Addams Family) and Kathryn. She’s the stressed mother taking her young son to a local store to buy groceries. He’s the homeless man sat on the pavement/sidewalk out front who gives the boy a few words of wisdom.

The oddly named Somewhat North Of Boston Film Festival will be screening The Coin during its 3-day event in mid-November. At the time of writing we don’t have specific details on when it will be shown. I’ll bring you more when I can.

Interesting name that. Concord, New Hampshire, home to the SNOB Film Fest is indeed ‘somewhat north’ of Boston, Massachusetts. It’s also ‘somewhat north’ of New Boston, New Hampshire. Why not go plural? I guess it sounds better than Somewhat North Of Manchester (the New Hampshire version). SNOB vs SNOM.

There’s not a lot there at the moment but browse the official SNOB website in anticipation.