source: The Oregonian

And you'll want that 80 minutes back, if you waste them on this movie. You're better off making out with a cheese grater if you want cheap, bloody thrills. Which this film has none....give the audience some credit. Yes, we've seen Eraserhead, and this is no Erasehead. Absolutely no pay off, just shaky camera work, no dialogue, not nearly enough gore for horror fans, just lots of close ups of very ugly faces. I get it, you like David Lynch. But not that much because this was a terrible effort. Ed Wood looks like Eastwood compared to this tripe. But there are people out there that will argue the merits of tripe, saying that it is good, the way my grandmother prepares it. But it's not, it's the lining of a cows stomach.........

The feature length film The Oregonian, is a film of love and hate and the eventual descent into madness. It is in my opinion that this movie actually represents something, and is not just a 2- hour nightmarish drug trip. It is in my opinion that the plot of the movie is that the main protagonist is in Hades, Hell but she does not realize it yet. Allow me to explain. In the beginning of the movie we see her steal a bottle of what I presume is vodka, off her dead/passed out husband/fiancé/. She then proceeds to drink the rest of it. The next scene we a violently transitioned into has our protagonist waking up after being in a terrible accident where she kills a father and his child. After she feebly cries for help, she sees a woman in red walk out of the woods, staring and smiling at her in the most ominous way possible. This woman is a reference to the demons that terrorize the occupants of Hell. What occurs next is even stranger, the woman in red vanishes and our protagonist continues to walk down the road and encounters an unconscious man in a frog suit with a shotgun. The girl steals the gun and continues walking down the strange road. Later in the film she comes to a small town where she finds a man in a van wearing some aviators. She hitches a ride from him to the next mystery town. The man is a reference to Charon (the ferryman of the River Styx). He then takes her to a mysterious shack where she encounters more strange men and women (demons) who terrorize her more. In later scenes, the strange men and two women are out in the middle of the desert drinking a strange mixture of gasoline and milk, maybe. While in the desert with the strange people, she sees the man in the frog suit, and after a horrific hallucination, she murders him with a lead pipe, thus concreting her presence in Hell. She has now murdered 3 times and has no chance of escaping her fate. She then is found wearing the frog suit and laughing with the strange woman in the car at the scene of her original sin, the murder of the father and boy. She meets her ultimate doom, when a strange light emits a strange noise, and then the movie ends.

You really have to wonder about the type of sadist that rushes to IMDb to write a bad review for a film like Oregonian. Eh, some peoples kids. If your film get's compared to another film that some say was ghost directed by David Lynch ( 1994's Nadja), then you've probably done your job as a filmmaker and storyteller. I like it when films have an element that is left open to audiences interpretation. Some fun concepts are used in the direction, lighting and editing, and I have no complaints about the acting. This is a midnight movie if ever there was one. You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll laugh watching others in the theater cringe. The Oregonian would like to do things to you and with you. I say you let it.

From the very first scene this movie will have you hooked. The Oregonian is like a the craziest roller-coaster you have ever been on, it has the ups and downs and loopy loops. At every turn there is something unexpected, keeping you engaged the whole time and on the edge of your seat. The filmography is truly exceptional and how they changed for scene to scene and from third person to first person was truly beautiful. And it contains what every great movie must have, a truly masterful sound track. Between the music and the filmography there truly is not another movie that can match up to this one. And of course how can we forget the lovely granny in the red a truly inspiring character in this movie and executed perfectly. i hope one day I will sit down with my family in our living room and we will all enjoy watching The Oregonian.

The independent film, The Oregonian, is one which is highly underrated and teaches the audience a valuable lesson in addiction. As we see in the opening scene, the presence of alcohol in the protagonist's life is prevalent and has caused her boyfriend to lie unconscious on the floor. The woman, however, is unmoved and in response begins to finish the rest of the bottle before she gets behind the wheel of the car. In her inebriation, she happens to run down a boy and his father. While she seems distraught at first, she begins to flee the scene like the crack head she is. Soon after her hit and run she is met by a woman in the middle of the road, obviously strung out on some sort of drug. No words are exchanged, only looks of… w.t.f. Perhaps this is the director foreshadowing what would eventually become of the woman should abuse continue. Later on, our main character is met by a man in a truck who eventually stops to take a pee. Granted this man has not spoken any words prior to his stop and we see that his urine goes from a clear color, to yellow, to red, to black before he passes out on the ground. Of course we can take this change in urine color to be a side effect of constant drug abuse and perhaps Stds attained through acquiring said drugs. Nevertheless, the man returns to his truck and takes our main character to his house. We can only assume that our main character performed sexual acts in order to obtain more drugs from this man. At this point in the film, we can see that the director is attempting to communicate to us that this woman is clearly tripping balls. While we may not see her take any drugs, the hallucinations she incurs is a sign that she has a drug abuse problem and is probably high as a kite throughout the entire film. This is illustrated clearly when we see the fictional character of Gumby make an appearance in the film; obviously a representation of her childhood innocence which she ultimately destroys. In the end, we see that she has found refuge with a group of people who enjoy drinking a mixture of gasoline and milk. Referring back to her dependence of alcohol, this concoction is most likely actually a mixture of alcohol and codeine as she attempts to break the bonds of her reality even further. As the movie ends, we see our main character drive away with her future, cracked-out self as her face slowly distorts, reflecting upon the inevitable years of future drug abuse.

reeder's film is dreadful. it tries too hard to be creepy and what's funny about comes off as camp. the lynchian humour comes off as obvious. what i may have liked about it seemed to be reeder's attempt to depart from lynch and leave his own mark, to be imaginative and elliptical, departing f which is sadly only ten percent of the film. the film is so hollow it feels silly. it just goes to show you that no one can do what David lynch does, lacking emotional intensity, the fails to be subversive. what is supposed to be disturbing comes off as contrived. you think you're getting something different when he's playing a hipster making fun of hipsters, but reveals himself as a wannabe director making a b-movie that somehow got way too much attention because everyone leaves it to lynch. what tries to be funny feels more like a gimmick. "oh we're all so much smarter-isn't this cool?" no, it's not. it's annoying. it's not an art film. it's too graphic and dull to be lynch. it's too stupid to be a psychological suspense.

If you like story, logic, and acting in your films this is not for you. Containing a slew of undeveloped, characters who add nothing to the film who drink gas, and yell not at anything just yell Cinematography that causes motion sickness. and that's it no plot. This has a feel of a film done by a 19 year old film student who wants to share his vision with the world who finds out once his acid trip ends that vision doesn't make much sense WARNING if you get stuck watching this you may feel the need to finish it, thinking it has to come together at some point DON'T it never does and the attempt to make it do so only makes annoyance at an otherwise horrible film transcend into a feeling of rage at the time lost The last spoken line is "you shouldn't have come here" I agree

source: The Oregonian

It is honestly sad that there is an actual limit to ten stars for the greatest mystery and horror flick to have ever been created. The Oregonian stars a battered blonde in a hot mess, on the run from a troubled pass of getting put in her place. She is lost and travels through the woods in Oregon that is probably only five miles from a bar considering the number of car accidents caused from alcohol. Other than their message of do not drink and drive, it is also made clear to never leave the farm. The real lesson is that she should just stay in the kitchen.Maybe your husband has to discipline his wife a little bit, but it is way more dangerous to leave the farm. The film has a mysterious monster, and twist that will leave at the edge of your seat. Always remember to watch out for granny and never trust the green monster.