American Woman

American Woman 2025 represents a new disturbing trend in product marketing, generally. Knowing in advance that the quality of the final product will be less than expected, the creators/makers pre-budget an excessive amount for post-production promotion, relying on influencers, fake reviews, clickbait, etc. To balance the scales. American Woman is a good example. It is a pretty awful low-budget effort, a masterclass in bad acting, bad writing, and a very weak end product. Nonetheless, early in the release cycle, a veritable army of reviewers suddenly appear on IMDb, each trying to convince you this is Oscar material, at the very least. Ultimately, "top-loading" reviews always fails. But it is still an amazing phenomenon. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

As I stumbled upon the 2025 thriller "American Woman", from writer and director Artie Siegel, by random chance here in 2025, I opted to watch it solely because it was a movie that I had neither heard about nor watched. And thus, I opted to give the movie a fair chance.

I virtually had no idea what I was in for, aside from the little information provided by the movie's synopsis. So I suppose writer and director Artie Siegel had every opportunity to entertain and impress me.

The storyline in "American Woman" was pretty terrible. It was poorly written and felt more like a film class project than an actual movie. There just was nothing particularly entertaining in the narrative. So I wasn't the least bit impressed with the material that writer Artie Siegel put together.

I was actually not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. And that was actually a good thing, as I do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in "American Woman" were not bad, taking into consideration the production of the movie. But don't get your hopes up, because you're not in for anything grand or memorable.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste 89 minutes on watching this movie. Some of us suffered through this, so you don't have to; you're quite welcome.

My rating of writer and director Artie Siegel's 2025 movie "American Woman" lands on a two out of ten stars.

A boldly dark edge-of-your-seat thriller with a challenging female lead who meets the challenge with a carefully gauged descent into outright madness. At times serious, at times crazy funny, a busy visual feast for even the best of filmmakers, and especially challenging for a first time full length feature filmmaker striking out into a world of such heavy competition. But Artie Siegel doesn't shy away or veer from the seriousness of his well authored account, and that mature focus serves him and his film and its talented newcomer actors very well indeed, especially Katelin Stack who delivers a terrific performance carrying most of the often disturbing narrative. The hand held camera does a great job supporting the film's intensely conceived plot.

Watch "AMERICAN WOMAN" and brace yourself as a grieving woman's descent into madness grabs you by the throat and rarely lets go.

Molly Reese (Katelin Slack, "Evil Lurks," "Vic Effects") is a doctor whose entire family is killed in a car accident. Although consumed with grief, a twist of fate drives her to channel her rage into training herself to be a cold-blooded and highly efficient killer.

Everyone knows the Shakespearean quote "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" but this movie proves that in fact "Hell hath no fury like a woman grieving her family." And it is with a hellish fury that Molly begins to hunt down members of the local mob. (Why? Watch the movie, no spoilers here!) At times the movie plays like an art house film, as the cinematography becomes eerily hallucinogenic and pulls the viewer into the the mind of a killer psycho mama.

Katelin Stack is one of my favorite actors and this is definitely a bravura performance for her! I recognize several others in the cast whose work I've long admired: Joe Rosing, Larry Biela, and Stacey Miner chief among them. Add to that the film includes another exceptional performance from the always delightful Delilah Hefner! ("It Came From Somewhere," "Attack of the Corn Zombies.") Written & directed by Artie Siegel, who also plays a fascinating character called "Rat." Cinematography by another DP whose work I admire, Jeremy Applebaum who gives the film just the right look and feel which elevates the overall movie to a whole new level that is the primary reason the film works as well as it does.

Definitely looking forward to seeing what comes next from Mr. Siegel.

Worst movie in the history of fim making. Total crew from actors to gaffers are incredibly inept. All the 10 star ratings that family and friends submitted are a poorly disguised attempt to create interest in a production that only needed a truckload of recently used toilet paper to clean up this abomination.