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PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
12th Jan, 2017 07:08:05 PM
I think this is probably Purgatory. I haven't seen it myself, but coincidentally somebody described it to me a few days ago, and there's unlikely to be two films from that period featuring a mysterious Native American dragging people away and throwing them into a canyon.
I saw the movie when I was a kid, sometime around 2001-2005ish on TV with my parents. I don't know how old it was, but it was in color and the overall quality makes me guess it was made withing the last couple decades (quite good bracketting, I know). What I remember of the plot centered around this fairly standard 'town with a secret', that a group of cowboys had just rode into, and the one scene I clearly remember was a man in a western barber outfit (black vest, white button down shirt, those black strips on the elbows to keep them tight) hitting a man in the face with a shovel. Right affter that, a mysterious Native American showed up on a bison, and led him away. Later, he took two of the cowboys, unconscious for some reason, away as well, though I don't remember why, and threw them, into this random canyon full of lava. Both got shots superman-cam style as the fell down, showing their face, and them waking up and screaming right before they hit the surface. Weird as hell movie, be awesome if someone knew what it was. T Hanks!