Desierto is very much built like a slasher movie, and keeping an air of mystery around the killer makes him just that much more disturbing.
And Jeffrey Dean Morgan is absolutely, 100 percent correct.
It certainly goes against stereotypes to think about a Hollywood actor asking for some of his most dialogue-heavy scenes to be cut from the film, but that’s the exact situation that we have here.
Watching the movie, you can’t be entirely certain why it is that Sam has decided to hunt and kill people, and what you imagine as an audience member may very well be much scarier than anything that the filmmakers could simply explain in dialogue.