{"id":3220,"date":"2016-06-23T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2016-06-23T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:37:33","slug":"reviews-zombeavers-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/reviews-zombeavers-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEWS: Zombeavers (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/uJZDfxbF-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"uJZDfxbF\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/uJZDfxbF-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/uJZDfxbF-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/uJZDfxbF.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 81px) 100vw, 81px\" \/>For starters, I love comedic horror with a passion. My favorite kind is the particular brand of meta horror perfected by the late great Wes Craven (I\u2019m watching <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28PPrwE\" target=\"_blank\">SCREAM<\/a><\/strong> right now as I write this). My second favorite kind is comedic horror that is more self-aware than meta, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28Pz6mX\" target=\"_blank\">ZOMBEAVERS<\/a><\/strong> definitely falls squarely in this category. They know they\u2019re campy, they\u2019re proud they\u2019re campy, and they\u2019re just going to keep dialing up that camp-o-meter until they break off the knob.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/534469-2.jpg\" alt=\"534469-2\" width=\"474\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/534469-2.jpg 474w, http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/534469-2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/>The premise of the movie is fairly classic as far as zombie plots go: Toxic waste accidentally falls off a truck, resulting in the creation of zombies that terrorize hormone-driven coeds in a remote cabin&#8230;except the truck accident is a totally deadpan chuckle-fest, the zombies are beavers, the coeds are comically sex-crazed, and the remote cabin is adjacent to a second remote cabin where a charmingly foul-mouthed, totally hip-to-the-kids older couple lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZOMBEAVERS - Official Trailer\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7onFrBK_hKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nYes, there is gratuitous nudity, and yes, there are ample beaver jokes, but there\u2019s also genuine hilarity in all of it. When the girls go swimming, one of them peels her top off and revels in baring her chest. Later on, one of the dude bros gets maimed by a zombie beaver and they need to make a tourniquet. The same girl goes to take off her bikini top and her boyfriend dismisses her, saying, \u201cNo, that\u2019s too small,\u201d grabbing her dog\u2019s life vest instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignright\"><p>Yes, there is gratuitous nudity, and yes, there are ample beaver jokes, but there\u2019s also genuine hilarity in all of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s goofy, the special effects come in just above low-budget level, the zombeaver attacks are amusing to watch, and the characters develop in (very) unexpected ways. Perhaps what I liked most about <strong>ZOMBEAVERS<\/strong> is how the film thumbs its nose at the tired &#8220;final girl&#8221; trope. That and how the beavers were intelligent enough to chew through all the phone lines (those lovable scamps!), which were of course the only means of communication since the cabins were too remote for a cell signal.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it\u2019s an enjoyable watch and the perfect diversion for a rainy Saturday.<\/p>\n<h4>RATING<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/07brains.jpg\" alt=\"07brains\" width=\"474\" height=\"37\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2060\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>HELP US BY ORDERING THE MOVIE VIA THIS LINK!<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zombeavers-Rachel-Melvin\/dp\/B00T6SZNFE\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1466704584&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=zombeavers&#038;linkCode=li2&#038;tag=g2v-20&#038;linkId=a160c22212a3006f9468082b75a8e093\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B00T6SZNFE&#038;Format=_SL160_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=g2v-20\" ><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=g2v-20&#038;l=li2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00T6SZNFE\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For starters, I love comedic horror with a passion. My favorite kind is the particular brand of meta horror perfected by the late great Wes Craven (I\u2019m watching SCREAM right now as I write this). My second favorite kind is comedic horror that is more self-aware than meta, and ZOMBEAVERS definitely falls squarely in this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/reviews-zombeavers-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">REVIEWS: Zombeavers (2014)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[504,505],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-reviews","tag-zombeavers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atbpublishing.com\/g2vpodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}