"Masters of Horror" Deer Woman (2005)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

John Landis

Writers:

Max Landis (writer) &
John Landis (writer)

TV Series:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

9 December 2005 (Season 1, Episode 7)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A harried, burned-out cop believes that a recent string of murders prove that the murderer might be a deer-like creature in the form of a beautiful woman right from a local Native America folklore legend.

Plot Keywords:

Deer | Native American | Police | Tongue In Cheek | Windwalker

Cast

Brian Benben	...	Dwight Faraday
Anthony Griffith	...	Officer Jacob Reed
Cinthia Moura	...	The Deer Woman
Sonja Bennett	...	Dana
Julian Christopher	...	Chief Einhron
Don Thompson	...	Detective Fuches
Alex Zahara	...	Detective Patterson
Walter High	...	Pool Player
Michael P. Northey	...	Peeing Trucker
John B. Destry	...	Trucker Witness (as John Destry)
John Bear Curtis	...	Truckstop Owner
Maxine Miller	...	Dog Lady
John R. Taylor	...	Dead Monkey Man
Edmond Kato Wong	...	Desk Cop (as Edmond Wong)
Steve Archer	...	Business Man

Runtime:

57 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Italy:VM14 | Finland:K-15 (TV rating) (self applied) (2008) | Finland:K-18 (DVD) (self applied) (2007)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

IDT Entertainment

Trivia:

When talking to the captain, the police discuss a wolf attack in London in 1981. That'll be the events that John Landis' An American Werewolf in London they are talking about.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The opening scene, the billiard table, is shown in reverse (numbers are backward).

Quotes:

Dwight Faraday: A new kind of animal, one we haven't seen before. In London, in 1981 a series of brutal animal attacks were directly linked to a freak wolf that was gunned down in Piccadilly Circus.

Movie Connections:

References The Blues Brothers (1980)

Landis on his way back

After spending far too long making comedies, another genre for which he is well known, John Landis makes a bit of a comeback with this amusing entry in the popular Masters Of Horror series. Deer Woman is definitely a Landis horror flick. Much in the same way that An American Werewolf In London did almost 30 years ago, Deer Woman mixes a steady helping of humour in with its horror. Its kinda nifty to see a native American legend that perhaps was not the easy route to take make an appearance as the monster for this episode. It would have been much easier for the writer (Landis's son, Max) to just make it a werewolf or vampire. Brian Benben is hilarious as the cop who always seems to get the weird cases. He is put upon but still has his dignity. Fans will get a kick out of a reference to American Werewolf's key setpiece. While certainly not the scariest entry, Deer Woman makes for a fun one and a welcome return for Landis.