Buffalo Rider

Plot

Buffalo Rider is an extremely fictionalized telling of the life of Buffalo Jones, with Rick Guinn playing the role of Jones. Instead of being a rancher and conservationist, Jones is depicted as a loner who tames and rides a buffalo and hunts down murderous buffalo hunters.

Reception

The film has received negative reviews. Chris Higgins of Mental floss wrote that "given all the animal 'stunts' (including what sure looks like actually shooting buffalo and various cross-species animal fights) it wouldn't pass muster today. The movie itself is a bit sub par, featuring an extreme over-reliance on narration and a sort of meandering documentary-ish treatment with some buffalo-related dramatic elements tossed in." The film was featured in a Gizmodo article of "the weirdest thing on the internet tonight" where Andrew Tarantola wrote, "Enjoy the heartwarming tale of a man, conveniently named Buffalo Jones, and his buffallo, named Buffalo. No wait. Its name is Samson, because that's so much more original. Whatever you call them, the two chum around the American frontier, saving babies and stuff for an hour and a half (even though the script was apparently only about 15 pages long)."

On November 22, 2011, the film was released as a video on demand from RiffTrax. This edition of the film features a satirical commentary done by comedians and actors Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett.

In popular culture

In 2011, the Austin-based band The Possum Posse created "Guy on a Buffalo", a narrated song set to clips from the movie Buffalo Rider.