It stars Clancy Brown, William Mapother, Karl Geary, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Doug Hutchison.

Presuming the kidnappers are hostile Native Americans, a military-backed search party, led by Henry Victor, is assembled.

Other members include former soldier William Parcher, his girlfriend's teenage son Dobie Spacks, and former slave and Victor's chef, Walnut Callaghan.

Tensions rise in the group, and disgusted by Victor's racism towards the Natives, Clay, Coffey, Parcher, Spacks, and Callaghan abandon the military escort and proceed on their own.

Following the mysterious holes, they discover a catatonic woman buried in one of them, bearing similar injuries to the corpses found back in the Stewart household.

She explains that the creatures feed by lacing victims with a paralytic toxin by injury, who are then buried alive and eaten only after decomposition has begun.

He is instead found by Victor's military convoy, and when he returns, finds that they've hanged Faith and the Ute, and that Callaghan has died after getting his injured leg amputated.

[2] The Burrowers received mostly positive reviews upon its release, with critics praising the film's blending of horror and western genres, cinematography, and character development.