Animenter There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Smoreni Zmaj John Landis, known for his cult achievements from the '80s, such as "An American Werewolf in London", "The Blues Brothers", "Twilight Zone: The Movie", "Three Amigos!" and the video for "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, after 20 years, with episode "Deer Woman", returns to genre in which he is the best - a combination of horror and comedy. Not at all scary, but original, interesting and at times hilarious story of a being from Indian mythology, the beautiful girl with the legs and the power of big deer, who seduces men and then tramples them to death. The ending is bit lousy, but overall it's pretty much fun.7/10

Bjorn (ODDBear) John Landis's Deer Woman, from Season One of Masters of Horror, has little to do with actual horror but it certainly is a laugh riot.A series of bizarre and gruesome deaths plague detective Faraday (Brian Benben) who, while dealing with some heavy personal issues, suspects there may be something mystical and almost supernatural at work here.While I wouldn't recommend Deer Woman as a full blown horror film, I would seriously recommend it for simply having a jolly good time. It's funny as hell, with Brian Benben delivering a top notch performance as the burnt out cop with a shady past. Landis displays a reasonable amount of gore here, but that's also done with a funny undertone. The only thing that can be considered a fault is that it's really too short. Landis could probably have stretched this into feature length and it wouldn't have suffered.SpoilerThe scene where Benben imagined possible scenarios for what happened in the truck had me pausing because laughter made me miss a couple of seconds here and there. In fact, the whole script is a laugh riot.End of spoilerWhile Deer Woman can't be considered true horror, it's damn fine entertainment nonetheless.

Carsten Corleis The Series "Masters of Horror" was not aired in Germany yet, but i found the "Deer Woman"-DVD (already dubbed into German) at www.amazon.de and the story seems weird and interesting (beside, the Deer is my animal totem :-), and after all the werewolf, vampire and zombie-movies that was made in the last 80 years, it was something new: A kind of were-deer...? Okay, the (under normal conditions) shy and gentle deer is not really suitable for becoming a movie-monster, but Landis movie based on an old native American legend. So the story-core of "Deer Woman" was not his own idea. The best point is, that John Landis did not try to made the film too serious, it was in different reviews compared with his "American Werewolf in London" (wich was referenced in "Deer Woman" too), and this is true. It contains a kind of humor of it's own, bizarre dialogs and ideas. The story flows straight forward in the typical plot of a "X-Files" episode. The only disadvantages are in my opinion the weak ending (there is not really a showdown, and we never find out why the Deer Woman kill all the man) and that we not get more info about the Deer Woman and the Deer Woman legend. Searching on the WWW shows, that the version used by John Landis is only one version. Other versions of the legend depicts the Deer Woman not as a killer, but very dangerous for man too: In these stories, a beautiful young woman meets a young man and entrances him into a sexual relationship. The woman is so beautiful that the young man is often swayed by her beauty away from family, home, community. If the young man is so entranced as to not notice the young woman's feet (hooves) then he falls under her spell and stays with her forever, wasting away into depression, despair, prostitution, and ultimately, death. All in all, a well made short movie, not groundbreaking or spectacular, but a fair 7/10.

LoneWolfAndCub When I first heard that John Landis had directed this episode I didn't really know why because compared to the other directors, he isn't really a Master of HORROR. But then I remembered the classic horror/comedy An American Werewolf in London which has earned him this title. Deer Woman is much the same, a great blending of comedy and horror.The plot focuses on a policeman (Brian Benben) who is investigating a series of bizarre murders where the victims are trampled to death. This leads him to believe that an Indian folklore might be true and a "Deer Woman" (Cinthia Moura) is seducing and killing men.Brian Benben is hilarious as burned-out policemen Dwight Faraday. In one particularly amusing scene, he imagines all the possible ways of death by deer. If it weren't for his acting that scene would not have been as funny. Cinthia Moura is perfect as the Deer Woman, she didn't need to speak but her facial expressions and perfect body made the character.John Landis' direction is pretty much perfect as he is suited to horror/comedies. Although there is more comic elements to the movie, there is a nice amount of horror in it and it is suitably gory and gross.4/5.