Skinwalker

Wow! As someone that has been watching Westerns for over 60 years, this has to be one of the worst I've ever watched. Goodness, the casting director obviously went to the local Community College and picked up a van load of drama students and just said, " pick the character you would like to portray." All the white and perfect teeth would never have existed in the 1800's. The three young ladies were all to clean and proper and so was the log cabin.

If you're a lover of the old western classics, The Searchers, War Wagon, Shane etc, don't even bother to start this terrible attempt to make a good western.

Why do so many horror films rely on "destroying the graves of the indigenous" to incite a supernatural power? Because every bit of land in the Western Hemisphere was stolen from indigenous peoples and they are buried all over the United States.

This film doesn't have a lot going for it in the monster department. The Skinwalker here seems to combine a rabies epidemic with some kind of werewolf zombie shapeshifter. It doesn't so much come in the night, but through the bite of those who encounter it. And it isn't even the real monster here.

The monster is the way people treat each other on the frontier, and how it turns good people bad. The good deputy kills an Apache who is trying to help. The woman with nursing skills and a good heart is married to an outlaw. The upstanding Mormon takes a child as his third bride. The outlaws help the people in trouble as much as the sheriff does. And children are turned into killers to help defend a city ravaged by plague.

The good guys aren't all good, and the bad guys aren't all bad. It's a place where everyone is both, and that in itself makes up for the flaws in the film.

Keep an open mind, but cheer for the Apaches.

I sat down to watch the 2021 movie "Skinwalker" from writer and director Robert Conway with only a vague idea of what the movie was about. I must admit that the concept of this Indian myth does have some appeal to it, so of course I sat down to watch "Skinwalker".

And while "Skinwalker" certainly was a semi-watchable movie, it just wasn't a particularly entertaining or enjoyable movie. Why? Well, because the storyline was just too simplistic and not enough happened throughout the course of the one and a half hour - give or take - that the movie ran for. Which made for a rather bland viewing experience.

I had hoped for a bit more from "Skinwalker" than what writer and director Robert Conway managed to deliver here.

The acting in the movie was adequate for the most parts, though the actors and actresses weren't exactly given a great script to work with. Nor where the characters in the storyline particularly fleshed out - pardon the pun here.

Ultimately then "Skinwalker" was a movie that came without a ruckus, and it will leave without a ruckus and fade into oblivion without having imprinted a lasting impression on me.

I am rating "Skinwalker" a mere and less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

It has good potential but with their poor acting have spoilt the movie. Almost like the actors were making a home video.

Really interesting look at Skinwalker Ranch before it existed.