{"id":15559,"date":"2014-10-30T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15559"},"modified":"2015-06-08T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T22:54:33","slug":"zombeavers-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/zombeavers-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombeavers (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Absurd as it may sound, it takes a special kind of talent to pull off a movie like \u201cZombeavers.\u201d A movie with this premise could either be a flat affair, or so terrible it loses sight of its punch line. Thankfully, the crew behind the production has it in the bag. \u201cZombeavers\u201d is a bonafide new kind of zombie movie, but one that pays tribute to a ton of classic movies from \u201cCreepshow 2,\u201d and \u201cThe Thing,\u201d right down to \u201cDie Hard.\u201d And the good part is, if you hate the movie, you can at least count how many beaver jokes writers Al Kaplan, Jordan Rubin, and Jon Kaplan squeezes in to ninety minutes run time. \u201cZombeavers\u201d may not be for everyone, but I had a blast. It\u2019s clever, witty, and over the top horror comedy that mixes nature run amok movies with the zombie sub-genre.<\/p>\n

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College girl Jenn (Lexi Atkins) is heartbroken over an apparent affair her boyfriend is having, so in an effort to cheer her up, her friends Mary (Rachel Melvin) and Zoe (Cortney Palm) head to a cabin by a lake to get away from relationship woes. Just their luck two inept truck drivers shipping canisters of ooze lose one of their shipments which drops in to a beaver dam. The beavers soon become contaminated transforming in to rabid zombie beavers. When the girls\u2019 boyfriends crash their getaway, they all realize they\u2019re being stalked by the zombie beavers after killing one of their own out of self defense. \u201cZombeavers\u201d is touted to a specific audience that enjoys cult horror comedy, and despite the apparent low budget, director Jordan Rubin delivers on a great piece of schlock. One of the main aspects that \u201cZombeavers\u201d has going for it, is its script which delivers constant hilarious one liner after the other, all the while propping up some great scenes of zombeaver carnage.<\/p>\n

Rubin and co. introduce some really quirky characters, all of whom are complete morons and derive a laugh of two thanks to their sheer incompetence. I didn\u2019t expect it, but Disney stalwart Hutch Dano steals the film as idiotic Sam, who is so self obsessed, he barely contributes to the fight for survival. Dano plays the vain college guy well with some great one-liners and ace comic timing. Rubin sneaks in some great visual gags, some of which are subtle, others obvious. There\u2019s a great death reminiscent of \u201cThe Thing,\u201d and a hilarious moment where the beavers break through floor boards creating an impromptu game of whack a mole. While I mostly enjoyed \u201cZombeavers\u201d the finale really felt as if the writers just didn\u2019t know how to end the entire narrative and just abruptly cut it off. I\u2019d have enjoyed a more absolute and wittier resolution. That said, \u201cZombeavers\u201d is a hysterical and breezy horror comedy that borders on brilliant quite often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Absurd as it may sound, it takes a special kind of talent to pull off a movie like \u201cZombeavers.\u201d A movie with this premise could either be a flat affair, or so terrible it loses sight of its punch line. Thankfully, the crew behind the production has it in the bag. \u201cZombeavers\u201d is a bonafide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,477,501,1212,1221],"class_list":["post-15559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-z","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}