Film Review – Death in Texas

For almost exactly an hour, writer/director Scott Windhauser (“Dead Trigger”) finds a fresh way to deal with old genre business in “Death in Texas.” He commits to character and performance, working to get the audience invested in these damaged people and their emotional history, making clear connections between the players while gradually increasing tension that normally accompanies crime movie interests. Windhauser eventually surrenders the softer interactions, giving the feature over to genre formula, but he has something special for 60 minutes, giving “Death in Texas” a John Sayles feel as storytelling winds around multiple players and their anguished hearts, keeping things confessional before the guns and coincidences come out to offer the usual payoff for this type of violent endeavor. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com