{"id":5152,"date":"2015-07-20T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2015-08-10T20:19:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T02:19:31","slug":"zombeavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5152","title":{"rendered":"Zombeavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MV5BNTMzMzc4ODc1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM0MTgxMTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MV5BNTMzMzc4ODc1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM0MTgxMTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BNTMzMzc4ODc1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM0MTgxMTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MV5BNTMzMzc4ODc1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM0MTgxMTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MV5BNTMzMzc4ODc1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM0MTgxMTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>A thing I like about monster movies is everything you need to know is presented up front and boldly in the title. <em>I Was a Teenage Werewolf<\/em>? I think you know how that film is going to go down. <em>Sharknado<\/em>? <a title=\"My review of Piranha 3D\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2308\" target=\"_blank\">Piranha 3D<\/a>? I&#8217;m just saying. Easy peasy.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to <a title=\"You'll all be dammed!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2784512\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zombeavers<\/a>, a film I first learned about when it popped up on Netflix sometime last month. Literally everything you need to write the script for this movie is contained in the title. Thing 1: these are radioactive chemical zombies, a la <em>Return of the Living Dead<\/em>. This is a foregone conclusion, because how else would it only affect beavers and not everything else, except if it was somehow tied to a limited geographic area? Thing 2: this is a college kids trapped in the woods movie, a la <a title=\"My review of Evil Dead (which is a remake of The Evil Dead, and therefore tragically does not star Bruce Campbell, but is still pretty good for all that)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3873\" target=\"_blank\">Evil Dead<\/a>. This is also a foregone conclusion, because how else do you get the victims near the zombeavers? Ah!, you ask, but why college kids? Because it&#8217;s a one word title. Zombie Beavers, you might have some leeway, but with Zombeavers, you need people who are young enough that you know they&#8217;ll be naked sometimes, and old enough that this is permissible. The pun is just too on the spot for anything else, and also, man, the poster you are seeing here is unfortunately not <a title=\"They'll dam you to hell!\" href=\"http:\/\/filmmusicreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/zombeavers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">the one I see<\/a> on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>So, why should you watch a movie about college kids in the woods vs. zombie beavers? Because, despite everything I&#8217;ve just told you about the inevitability of the flick, this is the most subversive horror movie I&#8217;ve seen in years. Explaining how would be a spoiler, so I won&#8217;t do it here. But if anyone asks, I can definitely elaborate in comments, and in the meantime, if you have even a slim percentage of amusement in the base concept, you must see this movie. Like, yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thing I like about monster movies is everything you need to know is presented up front and boldly in the title. I Was a Teenage Werewolf? I think you know how that film is going to go down. Sharknado? Piranha 3D? I&#8217;m just saying. Easy peasy. Which brings me to Zombeavers, a film I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[420,30,501],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}