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Turn up the schlock, man. The B-movie genre gets elevated with this bucktoothed bloodletting bonanza. Having just seen it, I am here to testify that Zombeavers, a film that is as cracked as its title, is one helluva “dam” time at the movies.
Mixing biohazard material with nature-dwelling beavers and sunbathing teens probably never occurred to you as a good idea for a movie. Hell, it probably wouldn’t in most people’s minds. Thankfully, the screenwriting team of Al and Jon Kaplan and director Jordan Rubin did dare to dream it up. Executing on their idea of nubile teens battling eager beavers, the trio delivers one of the most fun and satisfyingly disturbing entries into the cult film canon.
Mary (Rachel Melvin) and Zoe (Cortney Palm), two self-absorbed sorority sisters, visit a remote cabin for some “girl time” after their friend Jenn (Lexi Atkins) discovers that her boyfriend, Sam (Hutch Dano), has been fooling around with some other skank. The girls need this vacation to relieve the stress and tension in their relationships. It starts out nicely enough with an afternoon of rubbing sunscreen on one another and checking out a nearby beaver dam. (We have to introduce the beavers somehow.)
The girls, now calm and ready for the night, get a surprise when they return to the lodge. Their boyfriends have arrived with beer and condoms for a weekend of, you guessed it, sex and debauchery. But the horny dudes - thanks to a spilled barrel of biohazard waste right into the beavers’ living quarters courtesy of comedian Bill Burr and musician John Mayer - aren't the only uninvited guests in this movie. Zombie beavers, who will chomp on anything in front of them (including male genitalia), are suddenly on the attack.
Is nothing sacred? Nope. Not in this neck of the woods. Stay for the scene after the credits – compiled of outtakes as funny as the film itself - and you will see just how far this zombie-inspired creative “depravity” will go. Zombeavers is smart satire that knows when to deliver, when to pull back, and when to shock. Having its roots in late-night comedy, the flick is fresh with pop culture influences and bucktoothed terror.
If the movie sounds too tongue-in-cheek to actually work (and be worth a dime), think again. Zombeavers gets almost everything right. The horror is spot-on and the comedy, coming in almost every direction of the Kaplan-penned script, is rodent raunchy and full of rimshots. The flick is cheaply made and doesn’t shy away with being honest about its low budget.
Unapologetic to the end, this tone – which goes completely bonkers toward the end of its zippy 77-minute running time – only adds to the appeal of a movie that has scene after scene of scenery-chewing, poorly-made animatronic beavers attacking scantily clad humans as they try to “research” their new semiaquatic torturers.
The double-entendre of wild beavers attacking is unrelenting. And so is the violent mayhem kicked up by the watery rodents. No human or dog is safe. Not anymore. Zombeavers and its splatterhouse gore is the perfect drive-in flick for an R-rated Saturday night. Better than most of the films premiering on Syfy, the film deserves a wider release in theaters across America.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water, Sam Raimi meets Jim Henson and Zombeavers is born.
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MPAA Rating: R for horror violence/gore, crude sexual content, graphic nudity, and language throughout.
Runtime: 85 mins
Director: Jordan Rubin
Writer: Al Kaplan, Jordan Rubin
Cast: Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins
Genre: Horror | Comedy
Tagline: Zombeavers
Memorable Movie Quote: "We're looking for beaver."
Distributor: Freestyle Releasing
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Release Date: March 20, 2015
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: No details available
Synopsis: Zombeavers is an action-packed horror-comedy in which a group of college kids staying at a riverside cabin are menaced by a swarm of deadly zombie beavers. A weekend of sex and debauchery soon turns gruesome as the beavers close in on the kids. Riding the line between scary, sexy and funny, the kids are soon fighting for their lives in a desperate attempt to fend off the hoard of beavers that attack them in and around their cabin.
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