Coyote (2010)


director: Joel Potrykus
release-year: 2010
genres: art, short, werewolf, shocktober
countries: USA
languages: English
fests: SHOCKtober 2024: WOLFtober

It looks like it was shot on Super-8, as the film quality is terrible and the framerate seems off, even though it's from 2010. There's a ton of ambient background noise in the outdoor scenes, and I'm pretty sure they're using the on-camera microphone of some consumer-level camera.

Just having a nice evening alone.

Our main man, in his unbuttoned alt-rock overshirt and filthy converses, is living like a squatter in some semi-trashed house. He squawks out some vocals over his acoustic guitar, then flips on his cassette player and pops some pills. He switches over to Minor Thread and shoots heroin. Sprocket holes roll by as he shoots up.

He could stand to hire a maid.

He wakes up in the morning by a river. As he walks home, he meets two punk girls who invite him to dance with them. He says alright, and they all do a synchronized dance to 60s french music on the train tracks. He steals their boombox.

We all dream of the day a strange invites us to a synchronized dance.

When he gets home, he hot-rails some drugs a piece of tinfoil and transitions to a werewolf. The sprocket holes roll by again, and a wolf howls. He goes walking around as a werewolf, which basically just means with his face painted white, and eats a couple of guys outside of a club off-camera.

Werewolf makeup befitting his budget.

He wakes up as a human again by the river, and howls at the skyline. Nobody's Baby by Chance Jones plays over the credits, which is a nice little track.

It's basically a 20-minute music video.