ZOMBIE NIGHT TERROR PERFECT ASSASSIN MOVIEThe music in the movie also helps create the humor filled yet serious tone as well. If the characters take them seriously, so will the audience. Yet, they are met with serious fear from the characters, thus, the audience buys into it. So when the reality of zombie beavers is introduced into it, they are so absurd and over the top. That is the main reason why this film works so much: it sets up the real world. These practical effect zombie beavers are bug eyed, crazed, fast moving, screeching, relentless terrors - and they elicit real fear from our group of doomed protagonists. If zombie beavers can’t really exist, then lie big to make them real! There’s a saying that says if you’re going to lie, lie big. So would a slow lurking, quietly gurgling, bloody zombie beaver stand out much? No. There are no over-the-top crazy backwoods hillbillies, and there is no wildlife expert in the group who knows just what to do. If they are lousy CGI, will they be believable and accepted? What do zombie beavers even sound like? How do they move? Luckily, the filmmakers created the perfect zombie beaver for the film.Įverything about the world of the movie is ultimately believable, except the zombie beavers, of course. Obviously, the zombie beavers are an extremely important element in the film, and their appearance and technical execution could make or break the production. The character relationships help make the characters that much more real amidst the seemingly impossible surroundings of zombie beavers. This isn’t always the case with horror, as we often are thrown a handful of stock characters that we don’t care about. I thought the little extra effort taken to establish some character depth and show how the group ties together as a whole and as friends was great to see. While not as well developed, the guys are just as funny as their lady counterparts and also bring some extra story lines into the development of the group’s history as friends. She has a real “girl next door” quality, and Cortney Palm has a fantastic comedic delivery.Ī bit later in the movie, boys inevitably show up to crash the girls’ weekend getaway. Rachel Melvin is probably the standout among them. The dialogue is well written and sounds like real language, and I was invested from the beginning. They are naive without being dumb and have a playful chemistry among them. The trio are very likable and come across as real girls instead of just characters to be chased and killed. We are then introduced to three girls on their way for a weekend of fun at a lake house out in the country. It’s one of the coolest openings I’ve seen in a long time, and it’s the perfect set-up for the film that follows. ‘Zombeavers’ starts off with a hilarious set up to create the zombie beavers (I won’t spoil it here) and is followed by a fantastic opening credit sequence that mixes live action shots with animation. The end result is one hell of a fun film. The filmmakers behind Zombeavers definitely know both comedy and horror, and they execute these forms perfectly. One must know the genre well, have solid timing on the comedy, and know when to play up the horror. The horror-comedy is a genre all its own at this point, but it is not easy to pull off. Horror is the only genre that can poke fun at itself and not be called a parody or a spoof.
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