Friday, March 18, 2016

Zombeavers (2014)


ZOMBEAVERS  (2014)  
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    D: Jordan Rubin
    Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins,
    Hutch Dano, Jake Weary, Peter Gilroy,
    Rex Linn, Brent Briscoe, Phyllis Katz
The usual party of college-age morons drive out to the usual isolated cabin in the woods for the usual weekend of drinking and sex. If you've seen a single slasher movie, you know something bad usually happens with a setup like this, and as usual, something bad does: The morons are attacked by an army of angry, rabid, zombie beavers. The movie's relatively faithful to the genre conventions it's sending up, never mind that the genre itself was never all that serious. Cortney Palm gets the obligatory topless scene and takes home the Aubrey Plaza deadpan-with-attitude award. Rachel Melvin, playing the smartest of the morons (the girl with the glasses), acts like she's channeling Parker Posey. Beaver jokes abound, of course, but in a movie called "Zombeavers", you'd be wrong to expect anything else. Stick around till the credits are over for a clue to what form the next zombie peril will take.