GUNFIGHTER PARARIDSE
“Best Horror of March 2026” List - VARIETY
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"Fiercely original auteur cinema…unquestionably luminous cinematography” - LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Nirvana for film nerds…promise to be seen and pleasures to be gleaned.” - THE NEW YORK SUN
"A surreal, experimental, poetic and provocative psychological journey with shades of Lynch and Buñuel." - NYC Movie Guru
“Gunfighter Paradise paints a reverent but challenging picture of America, as holy and horrifying as any.” - Film Obsessive
"Jethro Waters masterfully employs a unique brand of dark humor...the picture looks excellent, and the cast is killer." - Film Threat
"Waters' film draws heavily from Authurian legend, but I'll wager it also achieves something extraordinarily literary...that of an Еріс Роеm." - Fixate and Binge Podcast
“Not just writing and directing, but also shooting, editing and producing, Waters comes with an auteur’s singularity of vision…Gunfighter Paradise draws out the paradoxes of a polarised America…there is nothing else like it, and while the cinematography is certainly beautiful, this is much more than just a pretty picture. - Projected Figures
“Gunfighter Paradise is a glorious film to behold…” - The Independent Critic
“An equally beautiful and disturbing portrait of spiritual insanity.” - Cinemacy
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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
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 - American History
