Product Details

• Actors: Justin Meeks, Tony Wolford, Charlie Hurtin, Alex Garcia, Stacy Meeks
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: August 11, 2009
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002BEXE24
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,313 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Wild Man of the Navidad" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Genre: Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 11-AUG-2009
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Feature?, September 28, 2009

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geminimind (ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wild Man of the Navidad (DVD)

Made for less than $10k?? And a fantastic film came out of it?!? YES; these guys have put together a very capable homage to the drive-in horror of the 70s. If you aren't familiar with those films, the movie might be somewhat unintelligible, but it's a good time nonetheless! The environment of rural Texas (and the creepy inhabitants therein) are worth a watch alone. The directors did a fantastic job rendering Texas on film. You're trapped where I grew up: good luck getting out alive with a sane mind! Then there's a man beast making minced meat of people with the antlers of a stag. Oh yeah. It's like that. Add a few moonshine stills and you have the recipe for much bloodshed in the Texan sand.

A really enjoyable flick; I look forward to seeing what these guys do in the future.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love southern horror!, February 3, 2010

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Jennifer M. Hensley "Thomas Hensley "B-Ho... (Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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'The Wild Man of the Navidad' definitely has that 70's camp feel to it! When watching it, I could clearly see that it pays homage to such films as: 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'The Legend of Boggy Creek', 'Creature From Black Lake' etc. Even though it does pay homage to those films, it doesn't over do it in such a way that it would be ripping off its predecessors. It is truly original and I can easily see this becoming a cult classic over time. It just has to! Besides this being a low low budget flick, I could tell the makers behind it wanted their legendary wild man to say as campy as if it were depicted in 70's cinema. And by that I mean this isn't the scariest beastly-looking man that is seen by todays Horror movie standards (today being the keyword). Don't get me wrong, this wild man does play out a creepy vibe! I love how the wild man is portrayed. It's realistic. It's believable. Some viewers will not get it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say younger audiences these days will be the ones that wont get it when getting their first glimpse at the beast. Having grown up just outside of Shreveport, Louisiana for the past twenty something years, I might be a little biased on this "review". To be honest, once I find out there is a Horror flick that puts on some kind of southern act, I go in with almost a negative attitude right from the start. Well, I'm glad to be wrong! This flick has nothing but locals in it! So in that case, I can't argue about actors overplaying the redneck role. haha.

What does make this "true events" story different from the other flicks I've mentioned, is that there is some splatter involved, but nothing too over-the-top. If those of you can understand its campy approach and not look at it as just being silly, than you will enjoy it for what it's meant to be. The images captured in 'The Wild Man of the Navidad' are beautiful!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More accurately ... The Mediocre Man of the Navidad, March 15, 2010

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Jeremy Williamson (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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SPOILER ALERT -

The Wild Man of the Navidad is, in short, about a mysterious creature who terrorizes a rural Texas river bottom belonging to a man who has opened that bottom for hunting in order to pay for his wife's medical treatment. The creature, a local legend, is shot and injured causing it to go on a rampage through the moonshine plagued town which eventually results in it's death, at which point it is tentatively revealed.

The film as a whole is an interesting, quirky, and enjoyable, but ultimately disappointing attempt at a hybrid fusion of The Legend of Boggy Creek (contextual) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2-Disc Ultimate Edition) (aesthetic). The film itself comes across as a somewhat self indulgent vanity project lacking direction, though it does have several attributes; most notably a Wookilar: a half-man half pig monster last seen menacing Tim Conway and Don Knotts in 1981's The Private Eyes, grotesquely engaging non-professional actors, amazing locations, and is certainly worth seeing and owning if you are a fan of films like the aforementioned Boggy Creek, or Town That Dreaded Sundown [VHS], as it pretends to that genre.

That said, I was initially very excited when I heard about Wild Man... but as an end result I'd liken the experience to riding the caterpillar coaster at a child's theme park, teasingly precocious at turns but never actually meeting expectations.