Film

Zombeavers

Name: Zombeavers
Genre: Horror, Action, Comedy
Released: 2014
Cast: Lexi Atkins, Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Hutch Dano, Jake Weary

Zombeavers is a gleefully stupid creature-comedy that takes its absurd premise—zombie beavers attacking a cabin—with complete earnestness. It's a seventy-seven-minute sprint of gore, bad decisions, and animal horror that knows exactly what it is. For fans of B-movie chaos who appreciate commitment to the bit over coherence.

TMDb rating

2.5

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like horror that treats its premise as a joke and then commits to it with gleeful, gore-soaked enthusiasm, the way the more unhinged corners of early 2010s B-movies did.

Skip it if you need your scares to be taken seriously or find crude, juvenile humour wearing thin fast; the jokes lean on bawdy set-ups and the effects are proudly cheap.

What it asks of you: Under eighty minutes, so it asks very little of your evening; you just need to stop expecting subtlety and let the silliness carry you from one set-piece to the next.

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