super marauder I looked up the story of the deer woman, and Max and John Landis really stick with the legend.The story is about a discredited homicide detective (played brilliantly by Brian Benben) and a somewhat wet behind the ears patrolman who are investigating these brutal murders where these man are being beaten into hamburger. The only connection is they have been seen with this drop dead gorgeous woman (and boy is she!). It turns out the only way this whole thing makes any kind of sense is if he were accept the deer woman exists, which sounds totally stupid to the detective.There are some funny moments to this, and Cynthia is perfect as the deer woman. (Come on guys, could you resist that if she's hitting on you?) I did like the references to 'An American Werewolf in London', and 'The Blues Brothers'. It added to the humor and kind of said this movie doesn't take itself too seriously. It's fun and entertaining so that's all that I can say.

bjjnedan Honestly, as soon as I saw the title after the opening credits, I considered skipping the middle man by turning this off and just throwing up in my mouth. But..., that would've been a huge mistake. This episode is just amazing. The short isn't scary or thrilling, or even serious. This is without a doubt the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. It's about this incredibly hot Native American woman who has deer legs and seduces and tramples random men to death.The entire "hot chick with deer legs murdering men," myth, despite being a real thing, is just so incredibly ridiculous just to hear to see it on screen is just WOW. I must say, the absolute best part is when the detective is laying in bed, playing scenarios about how the truck driver at the beginning got trampled to death in the back of his big rig. It's just funny as f***. This short is well worth the watch. Seriously, don't make the mistake I almost did and turn it off because of the stupid title because this is gem and every single person on the planet should see it once.

RainDogJr The episode 7 of Season 1 and the Vol. 5 of the Region 4 DVDs, 'Deer Woman' is its name and it was directed by John Landis; for the record, after checking on this site I can confirm that I have just seen two films of Landis being 'The Blues Brothers' and its sequel from 1998. Anyway, this is a hilarious episode actually, of course not because of the legendary -and sexy- Deer Woman (Cinthia Moura) but for the present situation of the Detective Dwight Faraday (Brian Benben) who can be only in charge of the animal attacks for a reason that we will know near the ending of this episode. At the beginning Faraday and his charismatic partner Reed (Anthony Griffith) are in charge of the case that for us is obviously related with the Deer Woman but since the case is classified in the violent crimes category soon Faraday will be replaced with another detective, the Detective Patterson (Alex Zahara). Here the situation is that the corpses of all the victims are not more human bodies and nobody wants to take care of the respective autopsy but really relevant for Faraday is that there were hoof prints in one body so that's was enough for Faraday to have hopes in order to make this his case again. From here we can watch how desperate is Faraday for a "real" case and not only cases about dogs and monkeys and is hilarious all the situations that he like to imagine (a deer dressed killing the man, for example) but it is more hilarious that he knows that his own possible theories are quite and simply ridiculous. Eventually as more dead bodies appear there are more hopes for Faraday to make this his case having as an antecedent of animal attacks, like the one he thinks is the cause of the crime, the appearance of a wolf in London back in 1981 (unique!). Of course soon and eventually he will know about the Native American legend of the Deer Woman, once he has finally the case. From Wikipedia: "Deer Woman, sometimes also known as Deer Lady, is a shape-shifting woman in Native American mythology, in and around Oklahoma, The Western United States and The Pacific Northwest. She allegedly appears at various times as an old woman, or a young maiden, or a deer. Some descriptions assign her a human female upper body and the lower body of a white-tailed deer. The Deer Woman is said to sometimes be seen as a beautiful woman just off the trail or behind a bush, calling to men to come over. Deer Woman is often said to have all the features of a normal young woman save for her feet which are shaped like deer hooves and her brown deer's eyes. Men who are lured into her presence often notice too late that she is not a natural woman and are then stomped to death. The Deer Woman is similar in nature to several other female figures of folklore from other regions such as La Llorona from Mexico and the Southwestern United States, The Colombian creatures La Patasola and the Tunda and the Iara of Brazil. All are females who at times, function as sirens leading men to their death". When the legend faces Faraday everything turns even into irony, you know the guy wanted some real emotions in the animal attacks "department" so what else he could wish after his meeting with the legend, a legend that will live on.In short, this truly is a near perfect episode of Masters of Horror and definitely it is not very far from my favourites of Season 1.

Claudio Carvalho When the body of a truck driver is found trampled in his truck, the burnt-out detective Dwight Faraday (Brian Benben) is assigned for the bizarre case. He arrives to the crime scene in a parking area with Officer Jacob Reed (Anthony Griffith) and their investigation discloses that the victim had left a tavern with a gorgeous woman and apparently had been trampled by a heavy animal in the truck cabin. Later, two other bodies of men arrive in the morgue in the same conditions, and the coroner Dana (Sonja Bennett) notes that all of them had erection in the moment of death, and Dwight notes hooves in the body. Dana investigates further and finds deer footprints and hair in the corpses. When Dwight and Reed talks to an Indian descendant in a casino, they unravel a Pohancan legend about a deer woman, half woman but having deer hooves and trampling men after seducing them. Without any other lead, they begin to believe that every legend is based on facts."Deer Woman" is a good episode of "Masters of Horror", with a funny story mixing humor and horror but also a very disappointing conclusion. The Brazilian Cynthia Moura is extremely gorgeous, actually one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, but she has no lines along the whole story. Brian Benben has good performance in the role of a cynical detective that sees the chance to motivate his career again. There is a great homage to "An American Werewolf in London", with the reference to a mysterious murder case caused by a wolf in Piccadilly Circus in 1981. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Lenda Assassina" ("Assassin Legend")