Eye Candy #332 - "The Burrowers"

The Burrowers: In this horror/western set in the Dakota territory in the 1840’s, the Stewart family is kidnapped from their homestead, and Irish immigrant Fergus Coffey helps start a posse to track down his fiance (who is also one of the Stewarts).  Along with several other locals and a fairly inept Army colonel, they assume that the Stewarts were taken by Indians, and soon find themselves in over their head, fighting an enemy that isn’t Indian or even human.   Avast, matey, there be SPOILERS AHEAD!  The family was kidnapped by the Burrowers, a race of creatures that live and move underground, like giant cicada people, disappear for generations at a time, returning to feed periodically on men, animals, and whatever else gets in their way.  They poison you, bury you in the ground until your innards get nice and soft, and then drink you down while you’re alive.  Not really a chase picture, as the cowboys don’t really know what they are up against until it’s too late, so it’s more of a meandering picture, like riding drunk across the prairie.  A few name actors here - Clancy Brown (looking very old), William Mapother, and Doug Hutchinson, who is apparently going to take every weird, affected role thrown his way.   Not a really great story, and some of the characters are painted in big goofy swaths, but for all its faults and miniscule budget, it was an entertaining film.  Woodchuck sez, “Me likey.”