Here's my non-spoiler review for Coyote Lake, the movie with a script that falls just barely short of the concept! Although Coyote Lake doesn't deviate too much from the narrative you would expect, it's the details Seligman incorporates throughout that make this thriller a promising debut. Minutes in, it's clear that Coyote Lake is not your run-of-the-mill U.
Coyote Lake is a drama film, directed and written by Sara Seligman. The film is produced by Nikki Stier Justice, Van Johnson, Anne Clements, and Ash Christian under the banner of Cranked Up Films, and Van Johnson Company. A predatory mother-daughter duo on the Tex-Mex border gets unwelcome visitors in this clumsy thriller.
Too flat-footedly earnest even to provide inadvertent bad-movie fun, it opens on five theatrical screens (two in Texas) simultaneous with On Demand launch this Friday. The movie has barely begun, and you're utterly intrigued. Your attention remains rapt when a couple of desperate Mexican nationals on the lam (one has a bullet in his leg, a hazard of his trade) shatter the women's secluded existence and hold them hostage, with the younger and more gentler of the two. In the first few minutes of Coyote Lake, we see a seemingly mild-mannered, middle-aged Mexican woman and her polite teenage daughter serving dinner to a male houseguest who is somewhat coy about. Starring: Camila Mendes, Antonio López-Valero, Andres Velez and others. Ester and her overbearing mother run a small bed-and-breakfast near the US/Mexico border.
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One night, two unwanted guests arrive, threatening the safety of everyone. Coyote Lake is a reservoir on the Rio Grande along a dangerous drug smuggling route that has become synonymous with cartel violence and mysterious disappearances. Coyote Lake, it turns out, is neither.
It's actually a decent little thriller, ably written and solidly directed, and quite well acted. A new thriller from director Sara Seligman starring Camila Mendes, Adriana Barraza and Andres Velez. A brilliant movie that will keep you glued. The characters are amazing, and you will take an interest in them.