Harry that he has never wanted to kill a man before, his finger on the trigger of the rifle. Harry begs for his life, but Boy then collapses from the bleeding head wound. At that moment the couple's car is delivered by Boy's native friends, who take Boy inside the cabin, where he requests to see Buffy. As his last physical effort, he lifts himself to embrace her, dying in her arms as Harry is held at gunpoint outside. Buffy exits and the couple's fate is up to Boy's friends, one of whom is a sheriff - but, despite the crime, the two are told to leave immediately in their car. Boy's friends set the cabin ablaze as a funeral pyre. Harry and Buffy drive along out of the desert disoriented, exhausted and silent. They hold hands and Harry asks Buffy if she's okay. She replies that she is not as she glances back at the fire's glow. The couple fall silent again. Cast River Phoenix as Boy Judy Davis as Buffy Jonathan Pryce as Harry Karen Black as Motel Woman T. Dan Hopkins as Joe Tapesi Lorne Miller as Mute Youth Julius Drum as Native American John Trudell as Native American Rodney A. Grant as Native American George Aguilar as Native American George Sluizer as Narrator (voice) Production Dark Blood began shooting September 21, 1993 and consisted of roughly five weeks of on location shooting in Torrey, Utah and was scheduled to complete three weeks of filming interior scenes in Los Angeles, California on a sound stage. Parts of the film were also shot in Gallup, New Mexico. There is a scene shot at Mesa Verde National Park in Montezuma County, Colorado. The film had a budget of under $10 million. Filming was 80% finished before Phoenix's death on October 31, 1993. Production halted while insurers and financiers tried to determine if the movie could be completed, but with important scenes still needing to be shot, the film was abandoned on November 18 of that same year. The film was due to be released in the United States by Fine Line Features and by New Line internationally. For the 2012 release, roughly four to six missing scenes were replaced with Sluizer providing narration. It was revealed in October 2011 that director George Sluizer had held onto the footage, fearing it would be destroyed, and that he had reedited the