Coyote (2013)

Sleep is the enemy!

Bill, a budding writer, is suffering from a lack of sleep due to nightmarish visions of being murdered. Lack of sleep is affecting his everyday life and making him a angry, violent and delusional man! Even during waking hours, which have pretty much become all the time, he experiences delusions!

With all of this are painful memories of childhood and being attacked by a dog and his father’s excuses of why.

 

Coyote (2013) is billed by film maker Trevor Juenger as art house horror. Wanting to steer away from regular conventions he creates a film full of delusions for us to experience what lead character Bill experiences himself during Coyote.

We have our main character Bill being eaten away by sleeplessness and nightmarish visions and delusional thoughts. Played here by Bill Oberst Jr, who is well cast as Bill as he is able to display the different nuances of his character’s ride into deeper psychosis. Even down to his appearance of being lean and ripped, of a guy who resorts to exercise and work to make it through the long hours of being awake due to a paranoia of what will happen when he closes his eyes.

 

Trevor Juenger‘s style of film making is to bring the viewer inside the mind of his character and to experiencing what he is going through as we journey through the film. Naturally with this he displays interesting shots, visions and displays of colour. Use of both practical effects along with interesting use of camera lenses. For me as a movie viewer I love this kind of thing as it makes me part of what is happening and gives the film a certain texture.

For a movie that is about a man going along a journey to violent psychosis we naturally will have violence and death. Here it isn’t aggressive but at the same time it is very effective. As with the visuals mentioned in the above I feel the way it was displayed is the way that Bill experiences it when he goes through with his actions.

 

Coyote (2013) in the end is a psychological experience into the mind of a man who has had a painful experience as a child and is being eaten up by the lack of sleep and the effects it is taking. It is well made and creates a chance for the viewer to become one with the story thus experience what our main character goes through. This is far from mainstream, it is more then a man just going nuts and killing people; it takes us into the character and what he sees through a clouded mind. For me no weak points come to mind, everything has it’s purpose and reasons. Coyote is for those who want a bizarre psychological ride that leads to death!