Fantastic Fest XX Review: COYOTES Has Both Bark and Bite
I don’t have children. Never will. But that doesn’t stop me asking myself the question, “What would be the perfect gateway horror film for a kid?” A film that’s not too scary, keeps the gore at a respectable level, and offers no nudity whatsoever. Well, ladies and gents, I present to you director Colin Minihan’s (Grave Encounters) latest effort, Coyotes. A film about killer coyotes can go one of two ways – it can be a fun, small-town monster movie like Tremors, or it can be Sharknado or one of its many questionable (and by “questionable” I man awful) sequels. Thankfully, Coyoteshas both feet planted firmly in the former. Minihan’s trick is to keep things very simple. He gives us a cast of colorful characters, a handful of interesting locations and, of course, the killer coyotes. That’s about it.A more scholarly writer may say the film is “poignant” or “relevant” because it incorporates California wildfires […]