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Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This is easily one of the best MOH entries I've watched thus far, and definitely the most entertaining. I missed out on Landis' second horror outing – INNOCENT BLOOD (1992) – so I was relieved to note that he has lost none of his talent in this field (to say nothing of his uncanny ability to mix chills and gore with broad humor) in the years since AN American WEREWOLF IN London (1981); by the way, there's a brilliantly funny reference to that landmark film here. As can be guessed from the title, what we have in this episode is a half-woman half-deer who seduces and then brutally murders her prey (actually reminiscent of "Carpathian Eagle", one of the more successful entries in the HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR [1980] TV series). Of course, nobody at first can make the connection between the presence of both a sensual native American girl (one minor gripe I have with this is the fact that everybody seems to fall for her obvious charms without once questioning her inability to speak, unless we're to believe the victims are all lechers) and a deer-apparently-gone-berserk at the scene of each crime!; the single funniest sequence is the hero having multiple (and wildly divergent) visions of the first murder – culminating in a bit where a deer, clothed and walking upright, makes off with a girl into the woods! Running hand in hand with the investigation is his story – a disgraced cop forced to deal with cases of animal aggression slowly regaining his integrity and faith in the job. Ironically, since he'd been demoted after having accidentally shot his own partner, it's only after his new assistant succumbs himself to the titular creature that he's able to bring her to book. Wisely, Landis leaves his comic baggage behind for the intense (if somewhat abrupt) finale – though coming in again at the very end as the hero realizes that he won't be able to satisfactorily explain the mystery to his superiors, so that it's back to 'harmless' animals for him from there on in

From John Landis, director of An American Werewolf in London and Innocent Blood, comes Deer Woman.A severely mutilated body has just been found, a victim of a seemingly vicious animal attack, which brings Dwight, a detective, to the case. Stubborn and burnt out, it doesn't take long for Dwight to get caught up in the mystery as well as a rookie cop.But neither of them are prepared for the wrath of a deer woman scorned as they track down the Native American legend.The films casual style, tongue-in-cheek horror, and wonderful performance make this one of the highlights of Masters of Horror. This reviewer's favorite.

This is the most uproarious comedy I have seen in ages. My best friend and I stayed up until 3:00AM Xmas Eve watching the 1-hour film and the 3 hours (!!!!) of extras on the DVD. The highlights for us: 1) A clip of John Landis directing the 'Deer Woman' lead by yelling "Smile! Smile! Now, frown!" 2) The god-awful CGI deer legs. 3) The deer wearing lumberjack clothing. 4) The woman who murders a trucker with a stuffed deer leg. 5) The interview with the lead actress, during which she debates whether it was a positive or negative that her part had no lines. Believe me--it was a positive. 6) The smile the 'Deer Woman' gives looks exactly like the smile on the woman who shoots ping-pong balls out of her privates in 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'. 7) The Troma-level acting of Officer Reed. 8) The fact that the trucker is wearing a hat that just says 'Wiener.' 9) The 1.5 minutes of the hour-long interview with Landis where he actually talks about this film. 10) The stills. My God, the stills. I run a little club titled Le Bad Cinema, which consists of a small group of masochists who punish each other by screening progressively awful films. This will be my entry for our next meeting. God bless you, John Landis.

It seems as though, after a period of doing comedies, John Landis loves to do horror also. In 1981, he did "An American Werewolf in London", in 1992 he did "Innocent Blood" and now he's taking on the deer woman. The main thing that struck me about this Masters of Horror episode is it's sense of humor. Where the other episodes up to this one were quite serious, this one had a great sense of humor, which John Landis seems to have in all of his films. The next thing that struck me as good was the disturbing gore. There wasn't a lot of special effects with the gore, just disturbing cutting in to human skin type stuff. The final great thing about this was the acting was great. Everyone did a top notch job. My only problem, which also seems to always be Landis's problem, is the ending. The ending to this was one I did not care for. John Landis has always had a problem writing endings though. I found this episode about a native American deer woman that kills men to be the most entertaining of the episodes.My rating: *** out of ****. 56 mins. Not rated, contains violence and language.