Zombeavers

When three teenagers go away to a cousin’s shack, they want to get away from relationship problems and take in nature. They plan a very easy trip, with one simple rule NO BOYFRIENDS ALLOWED. They swim, relax, drink and sunbathe. All is peaceful until the three boyfriends turn up and create havoc. The situation gets worse when a group of zombie beavers stand up to protect their patch.

It will appear as if this film is either a straight up nature vs human horror film of the mid 1980s ilk or a parody in the frame of say the Piranha 3D films. Well I can safely assure you it is a send up and as horror send ups go, this is actually quite good. We have the all too familiar teens in the wilderness, the demonic creature (beavers here) and of course lots of blood and gore. Funny, sardonic and extremely crude in places but the film seems to cover much of this with a little bit of intelligence and wit. I know that humour is subjective and often people don’t laugh at gore and horror homages, horror film fans will. They may not laugh so much at the untold ‘beaver’ jokes (they do grate after a while). It also suffers in the later portions as a lot of postmodernist cinema does, the reason as always is that it is a little too self- knowing.

All told the idea for the film runs flat about 50 minutes in but the nods and winks to those films loved by many horror films will keep them in the long game. The rest will like the beavers chewing their way through all and sundry.