One doesn't expect great filmmaking from a movie with a title like Zombeavers, which features a fun premise: namely, a bunch of beavers who have been zombified by toxic waste launch an attack on three sorority sisters and their boyfriends at an isolated lakeside cabin. Unfortunately, Jordan Rubin's ham-fisted direction undermines any potential for ghoulish fun, with leaden pacing and sloppy execution. While the animatronic beaver puppets are amusingly tacky at first, they quickly wear out their welcome, and the performances by the young cast—saddled with a witless script—range from mediocre to terrible. Only Rex Linn, as a grizzled, cantankerous hunter who assists the college kids, wrings any smiles from this limp material. Compared to other cabin-in-the-woods and animals-gone-wild horror movies, Zombeavers is repetitive and tedious (even at 76 minutes), and while it obviously aims for camp cult status, the filmmakers simply don't have the chops (unlike the beavers) to pull it off. Not a necessary purchase. (F. Swietek)
Zombeavers
Freestyle, 76 min., R, DVD: $14.99, May 19 Volume 30, Issue 3
Zombeavers
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