«Blood Simple» becomes a dazzling comedie noire, a dynamic, virtuoso display by a couple of talented fledgling filmmakers who give the conventions of the genre such a thorough workout that the result is a movie that's fresh and exhilarating. (rottentomatoes.com)
That Walsh has a plan of his own inadvertently triggers a chain of increasingly disastrous wrong assumptions, and «Blood Simple» becomes a dazzling comedie noire, a dynamic, virtuoso display by a couple of talented fledgling filmmakers who give the conventions of the genre such a thorough workout that the result is a movie that's fresh and exhilarating (in the way that Jean - Jacques Beineix's «Diva» was). (latimes.com)
During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, True Romance, in 1987. (metacritic.com)