“Gunfighter Paradise is gothic comedy done right…an equally beautiful and disturbing portrait of spiritual insanity.” - Morgan Rojas for Cinemacy
“The screenplay for Gunfighter Paradise has the dry of the Coen brothers by way of Irving Ravetch.”
- Bobby LePire for Film Threat
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Sara Ayele
PRODUCER
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Jethro Waters
WRITER & DIRECTOR
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Nancy Buirski
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
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Jessica Hecht
KEY CAST
““Gunfighter Paradise is a glorious film to behold…” - Richard Propes
“Jethro Waters’s darkly comic dissection of America and masculinity is truly one of the most unique and bizarre dark comedies to come out of the independent circuit.” - Felix Vasquez
“Gunfighter Paradise is southern David Lynch…” - Jeff Goodwin
“Jethro Waters nearly does it all in Gunfighter Paradise. An equally beautiful and disturbing portrait of spiritual insanity.” - Morgan Rojas
“This flick bravely goes off the beaten track to produce something relatively unique.” - Ronak Kotecha
“Pulling from Paul Schrader's characters in Taxi Driver and First Reformed, Gunfighter Paradise allows itself to include dark comedy in its exploration of solitude.” - Victor Pineyro
Poster Art by RENATO CASARO
Renato Casaro is a legendary movie poster artist. He painted the movie poster classics: For a Few Dollars More, Army of Darkness, Conan the Barbarian, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Dune (1984), Red Sonja, Octopussy, and thousands more - working with industry legends like Sergio Leone, Dino De Laurentiis, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luc Besson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Quentin Tarantino.
“Many films have been made about the rural American South, often by people who have no understanding or sense of its history, culture, and traditions. The result is often phony pastiche. Not so with GUNFIGHTER PARADISE. Writer/Director Jethro Waters understands it, and portrays it through an unflinching, critical, yet also sympathetic gaze. This is a film as beautiful as it is disturbing. As horrific as it is comedic. It resonates with a genuine understanding of human nature, particularly your violent and religious drives and impulses.”
- Dean Bertram, PhD
