6.2 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Zombeavers is an action-packed horror/comedy in which a group of college kids staying at a riverside cabin are menaced by a swarm of deadly zombie beavers. A weekend of sex and debauchery soon turns gruesome as the beavers close in on the kids. Riding the line between scary, sexy and funny, the kids are soon fighting for their lives in a desperate attempt to fend off the hoard of beavers that attack them in and around their cabin.
Starring: Bill Burr, Cortney Palm, Rachel Melvin, Hutch Dano, Jake WearyHorror | 100% |
Comedy | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Here's a textbook definition of it is what it is. Take it or leave it. You get what you pay for. Et cetera et cetera. When a movie is called Zombeavers there's neither ample room for doubt as to what the movie has in store, nor is there ample room for high art. The film, from Comedian Jordan Rubin, delivers on its promise of zombified beavers chewing up some teenage flesh. It's a competent little film that knows it's not on the short list for any Oscars but has a lot of fun running with its inane premise. It doesn't wear out its welcome and it certainly doesn't stray from formula. It delivers exactly what fans would expect, maybe with a little less oomph in the digital effects department but, overall, genre fans should find it a delightful diversion.
Zombeavers' Blu-ray surely won't win any video quality awards but what is here is perfectly proficient within the source's confines and construct. The picture is agreeably firm. Captured on digital, it easily reveals skin details, clothing elements, landscapes, and the zombie beaver puppets with fine-to-meticulous attention to detail. The picture's innate clarity allows for even distant elements to maintain sharpness as the camera settings and focal point allow. Gore is plentiful and all of the ooey-gooey sinewy bits and pieces are all visible for the Horror geek to feast their eyes upon, though the 1080p resolution does betray some of the special effects limitations, such as when one character loses a foot and it's easy to spot the digital seams as he's writhing in pain on a pier. Color reproduction is fine. This is a very neutral-oriented presentation where there's no push to warmth or desaturation or anything similar. Colors are right down the middle authentic, particularly red blood and natural greens. Skin tones are pleasantly accurate and black levels as seen during some nighttime and low light scenes fare well, too. Source noise is not particularly bothersome and there are no significant encode artifacts to deal with, either. The lower budget photography and finishing processes leave the movie looking a little flat but this Blu-ray seems faithful to the source.
Zombeavers bites onto Blu-ray with a perfectly capable DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The track isn't one of finely tuned audio delights and Hollywood razzle dazzle (no doubt many films spend more on sound design than this picture spent on the whole shebang) but everything is nevertheless in good working order. Essentials like music and dialogue are delivered with pleasing accuracy. The former plays with commendable width and occasionally modest surround integration while the latter is clearly defined and delivered and firmly planted in the center. Ambient exterior sounds are hardly robust in terms of full and faithful spatial awareness but the odd here-or-there natural cue plays with good placement and integration. The track amplifies some action elements with several fun examples of discrete surround sound that brings vivid life to several action scenes. Generally during action there's an effective fullness and pleasing clarity to the various sounds -- beaver shrieks and scampers, human screams and footfalls, baseball bats bearing down on furry beaver flesh, and so on and so forth -- that make up the bloody confrontations. Most listeners will be more than satisfied with this sound mix, particularly if expectations are set to "modest."
Zombeavers includes a dozen extras including an audio commentary track. No DVD or digital copies are included with purchase. This release
does not ship with a slipcover.
Zombeavers lives up to its promise by sinking its teeth deep into the welcoming flesh of familiar genre fodder. It has a blast just expressing itself in all of the premise's silly possibilities and potential. The movie does little to distinguish itself beyond the species of its furry and four legged antagonists, but that's OK. With a premise as goofy as this, with a runtime that's lean enough to overextend itself, and the plainly jovial tone that pulses through the movie, some of the deeper shortcomings can be dismissed because this movie is rightly focused on the superficial. The Blu-ray delivers perfectly fine video and audio presentations and also brings with it a nice assortment of bonus content. Recommended, particularly for B-grade Horror junkies.
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