(Original Posted on 5/2/13 Screened)
Plot: An insomniac writers sleep-deprived hallucinations
distort reality as paranoia drives him to extreme violence.
Starring: Bill Oberst Jr., Victoria Mullen, Bill Finkbiner.
My Review and Thoughts:
If I had two words to describe Coyote it would be
"wickedly brilliant".
I want you to imagine William S Burroughs and Franz Kafka
and David Cronenberg and David Lynch all having an incestuous orgy. And from
that incest jewel orgy you birthed Coyote.
This is possibly one of the most interesting and disturbing
trips into a whirlpool of pure insanity laced in an acid trip of a nightmare
that I have ever seen. Screw drugs watch Coyote.
Unless you have seen Coyote it is hard for a person that has
seen it to review it in a way that a person who hasn't seen it will get it. To
describe how far out, how deep, how interesting, how abnormal this structural
movie is, in reality is impossible. Unless you've been raped in the mind by an
insane high on crack rock midget my review won't matter.
That's why I choose two words to describe it "wickedly
brilliant". There are few new directors and writers that will step above
and beyond what is normal. Step above what is beyond Hollywood. Step what is
beyond the basic structural film making and I have to say Trevor is one of
those new directors that defines cinema in a whole different light.
That is why I want to classify him as possibly a new
original film god. He takes his own imagination, his own mind, and his own
thoughts and structures them onto paper and creates brilliant little moments
that define film. If the film industry had more visionaries like Trevor the
future would be okay, the future of cinema would be okay.
When I see Trevor just by this one movie I say in confidence
that I see a little Ingmar Bergman. I see a little David Lynch, David
Cronenberg, Alfred Hitchcock and his self-own visionary world that wants to
capture so much on-screen. Trevor has the potential to be like those masters. He
has that spark and that vision.
Coyote is a trip into the insanity laced mind of a writer,
that when he falls asleep his nightmares come to reality. His destruction comes
to reality. He starts to boil over on what is real and what isn't. He changes.
He Metamorphosis's. He alters his being.
You the viewer have no idea if it's real what is happening
or if it's all part of his brain. Or is it all part of insanity of his lack of
sleep, of his booze induced trips. You witness his slow decline. His slow change.
His slow alternate self. He sees himself as an animal, as a creature, as a bug,
as an alien, you walk with him into his insanity.
Coyote expresses great originality through artistic
visionary make up and filmed moments. The camerawork and lighting in this film
is very, very graphically brilliant in my viewpoint. The film atmosphere and lighting,
put you in like a daze or a fuzzy atmosphere, looking out from the nightmare or
from the dream. You have brilliantly directed moments, amazingly acted moments.
I highly recommend this screwed up little film. Not many are
going to get this movie and basic people might not even like this movie, but
it's a film that is structurally sound and showcases something fresh, new,
twisted, weird, unsettling, gut wrenching, odd, and freaky just to say a few
words in its description.
I have to applaud Bill Oberst Jr. who is the lead character
Bill, who basically loses it on screen and gives a spectacular performance as a
truly paranoid schizophrenic hallucinogenic extreme insomniac walking
nightmare. He owns the part and works it perfectly. Now on a side note that has
nothing to do with the movie I have to applaud the acting performance of Bill
Oberst Jr in a different way because the parts he plays in most of his films
and movies are violent or odd but in reality what is so interesting is he's a
motivational speaker in schools and churches and yet most of his performances
deal with some type of weird violent odd type character. To me that just shows
you how good of an Actor he is.
Victoria Mullen gives the performance of Jesse, the
girlfriend or main squeeze for Bill. She gives a fantastic performance and is
great in the characterization of Jesse.
The small roll of Joe played by Bill Finkbiner is also a
truly interesting part as the musclebound racist jock friend to Bill.
Trevor Juenger directed and wrote and created a fantasy
horror with great acting, flawless direction, brilliant scripted dialogue, make
up and an overall powerful little weird horror film.
This film gives us some type of darkness that gives a new
meaning to insanity.