‘What do you fear the most?’
Desert Shadows is a 2022 horror film about two brothers who become the prey of a deadly creature while on a fateful hunting trip.
Written, co-produced and directed by Tyler Bourns, making his film directorial debut. Also produced by Steve Duval and Alphonse Polito.
The American Bourns Productions movie stars Andy Toulouse, Emily Sweet (Castle Freak; Fear Pharm; Cry Havoc), Aaron Foster (Freestyle), Richard Leacock, Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files), Bill Farmer (Seal Team) and Maria Olsen (Paranormal Activity 3).
Plot:
After the death of their father, two brothers decide to embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together. However, the pair get more than they bargained for when they become the prey of a deadly creature that has roamed the desert for centuries.
Eric, a struggling drug addict, goes missing, while his brother Donnie becomes hellbent on finding him. Following the downward spiral of dangerous clues, he teams up with a professor with a dark past and an overeager paranormal studies student to try to solve the mystery and save Eric before it’s too late…
Reviews [may contain spoilers]:
“Our hero looks like a discount store Garret Dillahunt and I’m okay with that. It’s like one of those “golden age” SyFy channel monster flicks that comes off as being really awkward thanks to its ambitions and refusal to just be a SyFy channel monster flick. But hey, Mitch Pileggi is there playing the kind of heavy he would have gone up against on The X-Files.” ★★ Brennan Dortch Cornelius Thunderbolt
“There was a lot of talking and the movie has an unresolved ending. The best parts of the movie were when the coed took off her top and got decapitated and when the cop lost his arm which was used by the alien to impale the other hapless cop.” ★★ Carlos Lee
“Be warned, full female nudity. It’s brief but noticeable. It’s also irrelevant to the plot […] Otherwise it was rather slow-moving. The gore is fairly good. Sure it’s a little cheesy in some spots, but overall most of it was good. The plot is followable so they have that going for them. It definitely picks up speed.” 4 out of 10, Clarisse Rose
“Andy Toulouse and Emily Sweet try to track down a missing man, but find a crappy CGI spider/crab creature instead = Missable, low-budget monster dump with brief nudity and… David Coverdale?!” DF Video Diary
” …monster horror by the numbers, with few (very few) adequate special effects and another few of not-so-good CGI. Some competent monster action towards the finale and a couple of nice plot twists that lead things at this point make the movie pretty watchable for horror fans, even though the dialogue seems to be created on the spot by most actors and is pretty silly most of the time. All in all, an entertaining monster B-movie.” 6 out of 10, Kastrino
” …more akin to a fun and trashy mid-2000s DTV creature feature ala Frankenfish, replete with outrageously mean-spirited gore, gratuitous nudity, and all the characters being needlessly nasty to each other for no other reason than the screenwriter seems to think it’s funny when people say “f*ck you” to each other in a work setting. The CG is passable in the dark and horrible in full (desert) light, but the practical effects are pretty solid.” Scone
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