"Mudhoney is Meyer's neglected masterpiece: his most interesting, most ambitious, most complex, and longest independent production....Its plot...has to do with a fanatic preacher, a terrorized town that turns to mob violence, and a backwoods family that is apparently deficient in all genes not related directly to chest development. The visual style is unlike Meyer's other work: he opens with a protracted shot of feet walking through the village, and closes with a terrifically effective point-of-view shot of a body toppling into an open grave; in between, there is more mood, more languorous camera movement, and less quick-cutting than we expect from Meyer." -Roger Ebert