Trigger Man

Critic’s Pick – New York Times, Village Voice, L.A. Weekly

“Jolting. Smartly written… minimum fuss and maximum tension… steel-trap finale.”
- Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

“One of the best examples of five-dollars-and-a-dream genre filmmaking I’ve seen perhaps, ever.”
- indieWIRE

from director Ti West (The Roost, House of the Devil)
produced by Larry Fessenden

“a virtual masterpiece of foreshadowing and unexpected gruesome surprises . . . fresh and edgy on its own terms.”
- Paul Birchall, Los Angeles City Beat

“genuinely terrifying . . . stealing in parts from Gus Van Sant’s Gerry and John Boorman’s Deliverance . . . a silent form of existential dread . . . a marvel of sound design and spatial dynamics . . . Mr. West makes the rustling leaves, the gurgling water, and the chirping insects the harbingers of an omnipresent evil. Forget the fake blood — green is the color to fear.”
- S. James Snyder, New York Sun

“Imagine Old Joy reconceived as a horror movie . . . stunning sophomore feature by 26-year-old writer-director Ti West . . . an uncommonly naturalistic terror tale . . . ”
- Scott Foundas, Village Voice

“a low-budget twist on a Michelangelo Antonioni film. . .”
- Grady Hendrix, New York Sun

The hunters become the hunted in Trigger Man, a thriller from director Ti West (The Roost, House of the Devil). A cinema verité-styled story about three friends from Manhattan who travel to rural Delaware to hunt deer, only to find that they are the targets of a psychotic sniper, Trigger Man is, in the words of West (who also wrote, edited, photographed and co-produced), “an existential and borderline experimental art-horror film.”

Says producer Larry Fessenden, director of Wendigo and head of the “Scareflix” label under which Trigger Man was produced: “One of the primary goals with Scareflix is to never repeat ourselves stylistically or thematically. This one from Ti West is very different from the other three Scareflix, including The Roost which had an affectionate retro feel. With Trigger Man we’re going for a more immediate, more visceral, more verité feeling. This one should be appallingly real.”