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Thursday, August 8, 2024

TEXAS INDIE FILM, "COYOTE WOMAN" [2024] SINKS BEFORE THE MOVIE STARTS...

COYOTE WOMAN
πŸŽ₯🎞️Indie Movie Review🎞️πŸŽ₯ - COYOTE WOMAN [2024] - [R] - Kinnescape/Raw Cinema. Directed by Stefan Ruf. Written by John Herndon & Stefan Ruf. Produced by John H. Davis and Lissa Rabon. Starring Nik L. Guerra, Heath Allyn, Les Best, Tom Byrne, Larissa Dali, Don Barro, and Michael L Garcia Jr. Filmed entirely in Blanco, TX.

This indie feature is a silly, but bloody Western filled with gores galore and tons of one liners. Wild Comanche's attack a family, wiping out the parents and capturing two girl, who are tormented and eventually absorbed into the Comanche tribe over the course of ten years. A wild bunch of "Indian scalp hunters" track down the local Indians and mercilessly take scalps from men, women and children. One of the children, who grew up to be a smart and witty "Indian Princess," [Dali] is able to find help to hunt down the scalpers and extract revenge on all that destroyed both of her families.

THE GOOD - The movie poster is artistically impressive and very creative. The opening and closing credits were very artistic and reminded me of the early spaghetti western films opening and closings. The location spotting for this feature was pleasant. Some of the gore was well planned and prepared.

THE BAD - As a dark comedy, this featured suffered from bad writing, bad editing and directing. Many of the scenes were too long and could have been edited for a shorter intro, which would have resulted in a shorter running time. There were constant close ups which were useless and obviously added to the film to hide the large amount of ADR that was used throughout the entire film. There was a ton of scenes shot out of focus, where the camera operator had to adjust while filming the scene. And as much as this was a dark/sassy comedy, the was no historical basis for any of the Native American culture used in this film; nothing remotely plausible.

PRODUCTION BREAKDOWN

  Lighting
  Camera Work
  Screenplay
  Sound/ADR
  Wardrobe
  Use of Visuals
  Time Lapse
Editing
  Rule of Thirds
Locations
  Music
  Ending/Follow through
  Makeup/Effects
  Gore

POST MORTEM - The marketing and promotional push for this film was deeply deplorable. I only found out about this film because Larissa Dali made a post on Instagram about it. Production teams who choose to use TUBI as a streaming showcase for their film, should consider other alternatives before just jumping into an unproven platform that does absolutely nothing to promote a new indie film.
 
⭐️⭐️πŸ’«[2.5 of 5 Stars]