Cocaine Bear [Blu-ray]

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Not quite the bloodbath many initial reviews vomited, it still has a natty line in comedic dismemberment, avoiding the accusations of being too toothless that plagued other mainstream creature features of recent years (yes The Meg, I’m looking at you). Elizabeth Banks took that story and made it into a funny, and bloody-as-hell comedy with enough absurdity to go around twice. Each of these segments is too short for any real info to come across, but the enthusiasm and love for the film and comedy are infectious. Yet the actual success of the film really starts and ends with its influences and its subsequent choice of what kind of film it wanted to be. Things kick off right away with that famous song, Jane by Starship, from Wet Hot American Summer(a part of Banks' past) that leads into a sequence high in the sky with a coked-out person throwing bags of drugs out the airplane door.

It probably won’t be a movie you’ll go back to more than once but it’s a perfectly fine time killer on a day when you don’t have anything better to do. Namechecking creature feature classics such as Tremors and Lake Placid were for once not idle boasts.There’s no sense of closure, aside from a clunkily added subplot about family that is more risible than in The Fast And The Furious, to break the story down into “this happened… then this happened.

It is nice that Universal is still giving this one a physical release, as studios have recently been moving away from that. Inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985, during which a 175-pound black bear ingested 88 pounds of pure cocaine. Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow - and blood. UnBEARable Bloodbath: Dissecting The Kills is an eight minute piece that looks at what went into creating the different kill scenes featured in the movie.By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. In fact, the trailer moments feel oddly out of place with the rest of the film, leaving it feel like it was conceived around a handful of set-piece flashes, which frankly it most likely was.

The primary reaction I’ve had from people when I told them what I thought of Cocaine Bear is one of credulity. Severin Films brings together four more Italian gothic horror films from decades past in the second volume of their Danza Macabre collection. Never as outrageous as you want it to be, but far more heart-warming and sweeter than you ever figured it could be, I had a surprisingly good time with this.There’s still plenty of life left in the Blu-ray format, and it’s more than adequate to give a film like Cocaine Bear the consideration that it deserves.