A Wounded Fawn is one of the year’s kookiest releases, joining a menagerie of disturbed creations that includes Men, Barbarian, and Something in the Dirt.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2024

This is Travis Stevens’ third film behind Girl on the Third Floor and Jakob’s Wife, and all his horror movies offer something distinctive.

| Mar 13, 2023

The film seems to suggest that even if horrible men face no legal consequences they will, at the very least, hopefully face their own conscience someday, in some shape or form, and hopefully it hurts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2023

It's distinguished by fine acting.

| Original Score: B | Jan 5, 2023

A Wounded Fawn is a grisly yet visually evocative mindfuck that harkens back to the oeuvre of Lynch and Cronenberg, in the best ways possible. A phantasmagoria of horror that will leave you stupefied.

| Dec 16, 2022

It’s funny, a little nightmarish, and probably has an allegorical meaning, though that part is obscured by the onslaught of images that don’t seem fully realized or even thought through.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 16, 2022

Plenty is going on but not always in an obvious way. This is an indie horror film with an artsy surreal flair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2022

By utilizing Greek mythology to contextualize Bruce’s crimes and later violently punish him for them, Stevens showcases how little progress has truly been made outside of the stories we tell ourselves.

| Dec 9, 2022

Having no idea where things were going next went a long way toward holding my interest, so I applaud that and eagerly await to see where Stevens takes us next.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2022

While I could not pass a test on the second half of the film, Travis Stevens and Josh Ruben have just the right touch in drawing us in even while we’re scratching our heads right up to the funniest closing credits sequence in some time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2022

Hallucinatory high-strangeness with the haunting atmosphere of a 70s psychological thriller.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 6, 2022

A WOUNDED FAWN is a marvelous blast of realistic thrills and a hallucinatory and mythical blood-soaked fantasy about women’s power, men’s weakness, and righteous justice.

| Dec 5, 2022

It’s heady, bold, and assuredly its own film, not a retread of something else.

| Original Score: B | Dec 5, 2022

A Highly Artistic Horror Freak Show.

| Dec 5, 2022

Travis Stevens’s dynamic and doom-landed third feature steadily unloosens the thematically knotty concepts of modern horror for 90 minutes before suddenly tightening its own, with the force of a snapping bone.

| Dec 3, 2022

Stevens and company put the audience in the place of both the predator and prey. They’ve built a clever little anxiety-generating machine.

| Dec 2, 2022

Director Stevens certainly has a lot of ideas and is starting to show a promising career in indie horror, but in this new venture his pretentions may lose a few fans.

| Dec 2, 2022

[A Wounded Fawn] is forged in fire and blood, taking [Stevens'] eye for striking visuals and elevating it to psychedelic new heights.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2022

Stevens’ film isn’t quite as psychedelically bonkers as it would like to be. But it is fun, and further designates him as a director to watch.

| Dec 2, 2022

This is about as close as it gets to getting a film directed by Satan. So, fully expect your mind to get its extra steps in during your viewing.

| Dec 2, 2022