Deer Woman

Deer Woman (2005): Made for Cable TV’s Master of Horror series, this direct to TV film was surprisingly enjoyable. Starring Brian Benben and directed by John Landis, it is the tale of a Native American fable come to life and causing problems for a distressed police detective. It all starts when a trucker is found mashed to death in his truck’s cab apparently trampled by deer. No one can figure out how deer could flatten him in a truck cab and he was last seen accompanied by a Native American looker of the female persuasion. The best line went to Brian Benben commenting to the coroner about finding solutions to the killings by looking at the massively mashed and mangled cadaver by saying, “We’ve been going over this for hours and all we come up with is death by taxidermy.” Several scenes reenact Benben’s theories about how the killing occurred which are quite funny. There is a good mix of comedy and horror which keeps the movie moving in spite of a lot of logic holes in the plot. It also kind of ends abruptly but overall will be enjoyable for the neurotic out there. The movie is not rated but would probably be given an R for: bleeding piles of red stuff with arms and legs akimbo, trucker stomping, multiple fake Native American orbulations, casino drinking, multiple inept police, multiple hooves of death, and especially for the awful Indian jokes told by the talking deer head at the casino.