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The legendary Jean-Claude Van Damme is back in action in the upcoming thriller Darkness of Man, which is set to receive a digital release on May 21st. With that date just a couple months away, a trailer for the film has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above!

Directed by James Cullen Bressack, who crafted the story with Jcvd and wrote the screenplay with Alethea Hnatko-Cho, Darkness of Man has the following synopsis: Russell Hatch (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a washed-up, former Interpol operative who vowed to protect the son of an informant killed years earlier in a raid gone wrong. When merciless street gangs start an all-out turf war and the kid is caught in the middle, Hatch will stop at nothing to keep him safe and fight anyone who gets in his way.

Van Damme is joined in the cast by Emerson Min...

Based on the 19th century’s young criminal gang, led by Rufus Buck, a Black Creek Indian who terrorized the entire Indian territory of Arkansas-Oklahoma, Paul G. Volk came up with his 2024 release, The Night They Came Home. This film is a fictional retelling of a frontier policeman, Heck Thomas, and an Indian detective, Paden Tolbert’s efforts to track down Rufus Buck’s notorious gang and bring them to justice. This film is a very lazy portrayal of a significant part of Native American history that fails to leave any impact on the audience. Still, here’s a detailed discussion of this film that sheds light on the rise and fall of this notorious bloodthirsty gang of the late 19th century.

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Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?

The film opens with Rufus Buck, the fierce leader of the Rufus Buck Gang, locked inside a prison cell,...

Danny Trejo in director Paul G. Volk’s Western The Night They Came Home. Courtesy of Lionsgate

The Night They Came Home is a western offering that is a pretty good recycling of several classic themes from the oaters of yesteryear. The great Danny Trejo plays the local gravedigger, but most of his screen time is spent telling a young couple from the East the story of the last outlaw gang to be eliminated, ushering in their current relatively civilized era in a wraparound narrative.

It’s the 1890s. The local Creek tribe members are bitter about being driven off their lands and receiving a lot of broken promises. They also resent their children being forced to attend white schools to learn the settlers’ language, culture and religion at the expense of their own. One of them, Rufus Buck (Charlie Townsend) is brilliant, psychotic and charismatic enough to lead a...

The late, legendary filmmaker George A. Romero wrote the screenplay for his feature directorial debut, the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead, with John A. Russo, who continues to work in the entertainment industry to this day. Russo has written and directed multiple films, and has also written a whole lot of novels. One of those was the “Western horror story” The Night They Came Home, which has just received a film adaptation that Lionsgate will be giving a theatrical and VOD release on January 12th. A trailer for the film has been released online, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Paul G. Volk (Cross: Rise of the Villains) from a screenplay by Russo, with James O’Brien (Western Religion) receiving an additional writing credit, The Night They Came Home chronicles the ruthless exploits of the Rufus Buck Gang, a group of outlaws who clashed...

"I'm gonna make you all kings of this new world." Lionsgate has revealed the official trailer for a western thriller film titled The Night They Came Home, made by producer / editor Paul G. Volk. This is set for a VOD release in January during the usual dumping season at the beginning of each year. A frontier lawman partners with an Indian detective to hunt down a ruthless band of teenage criminals with vengeance on their minds. Danny Trejo stars as one of the main characters in The Night They Came Home, an action-packed western based on the savage crime spree of the Rufus Buck Gang, outlaws hell-bent on revenge. Inspired by a true story from the frontier days of the American West. Directed by Paul G. Volk and also starring Brian Austin Green, Robert Carradine, Charlie Townsend, & Tim Abell. This looks made-for-tv quality. // Continue Reading ›...

“The Night They Came Home” is a new ‘Old West’ thriller, directed by Paul G. Volk, starring Danny Trejo, Robert Carradine and Brian Austin Green, releasing January 12, 2024 in theaters:

‘..based on true events, ‘The Night They Came Home’ chronicles the ruthless exploits of the ‘Rufus Buck Gang’, native American outlaws who terrorized the ‘Indian Territory’ at the tail end of the 19th century.

“The combined force of local lawmen and Indian police aim to take down a cold-heated band of fugitives with vengeance on their minds…”

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The Night They Came Home is a Western thriller that focuses on the conflicts between the Rufus Buck Gang, US Marshals, and Native American police in the Old West. This movie contributes to the resurgence of Western films that explore true stories and figures from the Old West era, following a recent trend in the industry. The film marks the third adaptation of Rufus Buck's story in the past five years and Charlie Townsend takes on the challenging role of Rufus after Idris Elba's acclaimed portrayal in The Harder They Fall.

One of the world's most unique outlaws is coming back to the screen in an exclusive The Night They Came Home trailer. The upcoming Western thriller explores the tale of the Rufus Buck Gang and their conflicts with both the US Marshalls, including Heck Thomas, as well as Native American police, who are looking to get justice for...