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Actually the trailer tells you the whole movie.

And it is really about some zombie kangaroo who kills a lot of people in the Australian Outback.

It sounds like a hilarious, funny horror comedy you'd enjoy watching and have a good laugh at - but noooo.

The biggest flaw of that kangaroo zombie flick is that it totally wastes that opportunity and tries to be an earnest shocker movie.

But that does not work, because while the movie takes itself way too seriously and tries to scare you, it fails miserably because once "Rippy" the zombie kangaroo enters the scene you can not stop laughing at all. :)

And that's not only because the whole idea is so silly but because they used some very cheap and obvious CGI for "Rippy".

"Look - it's Rippy the zombie kangaroo out of my old computer I made with the help of the book "Cheap CGI zombie kangaroo for dummies" :)

The movie never gets any good it isn't even so bad it is almost good.

Unfortunately it isn't really worth watching.

I almost felt sad for poor ol' Rippy, who desperately tries to scare you, but you always end up laughing about it.

And I was really looking forward to watching a funny, braindead movie with the typical down under humor - but nooo - instead I got "Rippy" the serious serial killer movie about a zombie kangaroo.

Facepalm!

Of course I had to sit down and watch the 2024 horror comedy "The Red" (aka "Rippy") when I stumbled upon it by random chance. I mean, a horror comedy with zombie kangaroos, that just sounds like a blast, especially if it was going to be anything like the 2006 horror comedy "Black Sheep" or the 2014 "Zombeavers".

Writers Richard Barcaricchio and Ryan Coonan certainly had an interesting concept for the movie here, but ultimately the storyline proved to be bland, lackluster and generic. So it wasn't as if the writers revolutionized the horror genre, nor bring anything new to the genre, aside from zombie kangaroos; but those you hardly get to see, so... I found the narrative boring and uneventful, and it was a disappointing movie to sit through, to be bluntly honest. I wanted to like "The Red", I really did, but there just wasn't anything to win me over.

While "The Red" is listed as a horror comedy, I have to say that the movie was frightfully devoid of anything funny. So this was actually straight up a horror movie. A bit disappointing actually.

Initially I was thrilled to see that the movie had Michael Biehn in a leading role. In fact, he was actually the only face on the screen that I was familiar with. I will say, however, that the acting performances in the movie were good. Personally I don't get why they opted to go for Michael Biehn for this role, as his American accent sort of clashed with the rest of the Australian accents from the other performers.

Visually then the movie was not particularly impressive. Most of the scenes take place in the dark, and director Ryan Coonan rarely lets you see anything that involves the zombie kangaroos. Another disappointment, to be bluntly honest. That whole thing with keeping scenes in the dark and leaving the imagery up to the audience belongs in the 1980s. When I sit down and watch a horror movie, of course I want to see the gory mayhem and the creature effects. I will say, that the little gore that was in "The Red" was actually good, and it helped lift up the movie a notch.

All in all, I found "The Red" to be a big disappointment. But I am sure that there should be an audience out there for a movie such as this. This is not a movie that will find its way back to my screen a second time.

My rating of director Ryan Coonan's 2024 movie "The Red" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.

Rippy, or The Red as the title card suggests, is NOT the horror-comedy it's being marketed as. Instead, it's an incredibly dull film that borrows heavily from Jaws but fails miserably at executing any of the key plot points. The tone is inconsistent, and the script is dreadful. Michael Biehn's character swings between cartoonish and trying to channel Robert Shaw, complete with their own cringe-worthy version of the USS Indianapolis scene.

Rather than focusing on the zombie kangaroo-barely featured in the film-we're subjected to a family drama about a cop whose alcoholic father's past is bizarrely glossed over by the whole town. Despite the credits listing a puppeteering team, every kangaroo scene looks like a low-quality video game cutscene with terrible color grading that doesn't match the surrounding shots.

There's nothing redeeming about this film. Don't waste your money-it's a complete lemon with zero entertainment value.

First off, the trailer is not really a good indication of what to expect from Rippy (aka The Red), which seems to imply it is a comedy horror movie (like 2014's Zombeavers), but in fact the material is played almost entirely straight. The closest film that springs to mind is another Australian film, Razorback from 1984 in which a giant boar terrorises an Australian community. Here, it's a zombie(!) Red Kangaroo that terrorises a small Australian mining town. Razorback is the better film.

Michael Biehn is hopelessly miscast (although at least he does not attempt an Aussie accent), and his apparent overacting (particularly during the first act) suggests he thought he was making a different kind of film. The lead, Tess Haubrich, who plays the small-town cop Maddy who lives in the shadow of her father's legacy, does the best she can with what she was given.

This is clearly a low budget film, and the dodgy cgi and practical effects could definitely have used some more money thrown at it. The movie tried but failed to bite off more than it can roo.

To think I spent $11.20 on my Uber trip on All Hallows Eve to get to Limelight Cinemas just to support the Australian film industry by watching "The Red" also known stateside as "Rippy".

It was more laughs and for all the wrong reasons than horror I experienced during this almost 90 minutes screening.

The facts is some third world countries are making better horror movies than the so-called lucky country, Australia, in 2024.

Russell Mulchays' "Razorback" was a better monster horror movie and it was made 40 bloody years ago before CGI.

No, this movie relied on puppeteers in a Roo costume to scare us...what a joke!

No ones going to have a moviegasm watching "Rippy" the darn big bush kangaroo chomp his way through the imaginary mining township of Axehead.

One of the filmmakers biggest mistakes was revealing the zombie marsupial only seconds into the movie.

Clearly the word suspense isn't in their Funk & Wagnalls.

Made on a paltry 7.5 million dollar budget (costume budget for Olivia Rodrigo's World Tour) it showed.

Just like "Razorback" we had to hire an American for one of the lead roles to sell this OS.

Michael Biehn ("Aliens") as "Schmitty" is supposed to be a broken down Vietnam veteran, even though my math has him as 15 years of age in 1971 as he recounts his war stories.

"Rippy" had the chance to be scary and humorous, but under first time feature film director Ryan Coonan, failed on both counts.

Even though it's based on a short he created called, "Waterborne".

This treatment needed a few more drafts before being green lit.

"The Red" or as the Germans say whilst eating sauerkraut "Das Killerkangaru" was filmed in Queensland: around Brisbane, Cracow and Old Petrie Town.

At least these towns might benefit from the handful of film location tourists who follow this stuff.

"The Red" also lacked a killer soundtrack, which I might just make a Spotify playlist for, because I can...full of Aussie bangers (code for hits).

Zombie Roo "Rippy" was no ordinary bush kangaroo and when Rippy goes "Rogue" (another better Aussie horror flick) all hell breaks loose and you don't want to be a runner or a drunk miner after dark.

The trailer contains the best 2 minutes of this horror flick.

The towns cop gives birth to a genius plan in the final showdown, "I'm gonna blow the fu&@ers brains out!" Why that would work when guns and bullets have been useless till now amused me.

Wouldn't you be better to use an old axe hanging in the Fire &Axe pub?

The working title for "The Red" was "Zombieroo" according to Biehn, but that doesn't make it any better because this movie takes itself way too seriously and misses the campy horror cult flick it could have become.

Instead it's relegated to the skinny decaf cappuccino or why bother basket.

It's not even a "so bad it's good film".

Continuity is a disaster, the script blows chunks and First Nations actor Aaron Pedersen couldn't save it.

My love of Zombie movies is prolific, but this was a missed opportunity.

Shame because I was rooting for another great Australian camp fire story for future generations to enjoy too!

Where do I begin with this dreadfull pos?

Don't expect a comedy here. The movie takes itself seriously and the only laughs to be had are dumb plot scenes, oh and the God awful CGI that looks fresh out of 1997.

The plot should just be there is a giant killer kangaroo on the loose killing humans. So they fight back. That's all that should be needed. Instead it forces you to watch a pointless plot of the local cop whose father died and he was the towns hero zzzzzz. His daughter (the cop) is always going on about trying to live up to his legacy, or some stupid pointless thing, it bored me to death so much I just stopped paying it any attention and I dont know or care what the stupid outcome of it was in the end, because it was utterly pointless.

I heard toilets flushing when multiple times this cop ignores the peril dangers and just stops to worry about her dead father rather than the danger their in. Who wrote this (what gets flushed)?

Then there's the killer kangaroo in all its horrible CGI glory. What's even worse is this kangaroo changes size in every shot. One moment it looks average, then it's 8 feet tall, then back to 5. Whoever did the CGI is no professional, and I've seen amatuers do 1000 times better work on personal YouTube videos.

Mix all that in with side characters all muttering about things trying to make you feel for their past or something, and you've got a cocktail for the worst film out of Australia in years.

It'd have been better to use quick cuts, shadows, and off screen imagination with a couple of puppet close ups rather than try to sell this CGI disaster amongst pointless, and I mean POINTLESS dialogue between miserable characters and it's dumb plots.

The horror aspect falls completely flat. Never any sense of danger, nothing gripping, and not even any cool or memorable kill scenes. One moment a killer kangaroos after them, then they're casually walking home, then they're fearing the roo might be outside.... MAKE UP YOUR MIND writers.

My biggest question is how did they get Kyle Reese into this film, and why did he agree to be in it? I bet he regrets agreeing to it now.

I can't think of any reason to ever suggest to someone to check this film out. It's not even one of those 'it's so bad' ones. It just has NOTHING to offer, no redeemable qualities and I wouldn't even waste film students time saying this is a movie to watch as an example of how not to make a movie. It's just not worth anyone's attention in any way, shape, or form. It's just pathetic. Don't bother with it.

The bizarre tale of a zombie kangaroo terrorising a rural Australian village is told in Ryan Coonan's Australian horror film, which you may also interpret as a dark comedy. The movie, which is primarily set at night in the small town of Axehead, stars Tess Haubrich as Sheriff Maddy, a young police officer attempting to carry on her late father's legacy.

The townspeople are ripped to pieces by a string of horrific incidents just as she is beginning to feel overwhelmed by the demands of her work. Before it's too late, Maddy and her quirky Uncle Schmitty-played by seasoned actor Michael Biehn-must try to halt the zombie attacker. As they investigate, they find that Rippy, a massive undead kangaroo on the loose, is the real culprit. Hold on tight as we embark on this strange Australian journey into the mayhem of the outback with undead kangaroos.

The strange idea alone makes it worth seeing, but the uneven execution makes it unsatisfactory. Rippy the zombie roo can occasionally be legitimately unsettling and unsettling, but the slapstick required to strike a balance between comedy and horror can clash with heavier, more serious components. The mood is continuously changed by this schizophrenic technique, with differing results.

Coonan obviously did his research since Rippy captures the feel of rural Australia. The remote Outback location, complete with dusty country roads and dilapidated farmhouses illuminated by flickering porch lighting, feels genuine. But the erratic CGI is startling and takes us straight out of the eerie countryside. Rippy himself frequently looks more like a rubber Halloween costume than a realistic zombie. Any sense of menace is undermined by the floating fakeness when he punches or rushes with teeth and claw. It's also unfortunate because gore effects that use real makeup were not bad.

Gave it a half star extra for being an Australian film...

This feedback it is not mean to offend rather awaken and possibly enlighten you Mr. Director / Write I can do it all.

In the craft of movie making, there are writers who create a well crafted story, directors who have vision and experience to create that vision on film, and actors who execute the well written script directed by a professional director who directs.

When you write, direct and some even attempt to act all at once, you create a mess. This movie is a mess.

Repeat this every morning when you awaken:

Writers should ONLY write.

Actors should ONLY act.

Directors should ONLY direct.

Say it at least 5 times every single morning.

Please pick one profession and stick to it, otherwise you flood the world with garbage like this movie is.

I must be honest, I didn't expect much going into 'Rippy', thinking it was going to be a cheap B-movie. It probably didn't have a big budget, but the film surprised me with good cinematography, good performances, and good make-up.

Maddy's dad was a local hero. Now she is trying to live up to his legacy, and she is put to the test when bodies start turning up - ripped to shreds. When Schmitty (Michael Biehn) tells her about a giant kangaroo, she doesn't believe him. But when more bodies turn up, and Maddy narrowly escapes an attack by the creature, she puts together a hunting party.

The back story about Maddy's father probably wasn't necessary, but I suppose they wanted a tragic back story in order for the viewer to root even more for our protagonist. 'Rippy' is a good old-fashioned creature feature with a simple premise. Although there are comedic elements, this is by all means a horror, with some creepy moments. Being such a short film (83 minutes) it was fast-paced and I enjoyed every moment.

'Rippy' gave me a sense of 'Razorback' meets 'An American Werewolf in London', and I had a bloody good time with it!

Aka The Red... A remote community in the Australian outback is being hunted by a killer. Young sheriff Maddie struggles to deal with the situation. It gets more shocking when the killer turns out to be a seemingly invincible giant zombie kangaroo.

The premise is dumb. The CGI kangaroo looks dumb. At least, the zombie part has a good ending. This could have been like Cujo or steer fully into camp. There just isn't anything here. None of the characters are that compelling. The sheriff is almost interesting, but I couldn't pay attention to the others. This is a small B-horror that fails to do more.

Someone called this a masterpiece and gave it 10/10 putting it in the bracket of shawshank redemption th3 dark night rises or terminator 2!!!!

The film made 96 thousand dollars.

The best thing about this is Micheal beihn who must be on hard times to be in this mess!

The roo looks absolutely ridiculous the kills are mainly at night and all you see is a bit of blood.

It's not at all funny apart from the acting and some parts just drag om guessing to give it a longer runtime at only 83 minutes.

Don't insult ppl by giving this film 8 or 10 out of 10 unless your in it or Australian.

Rewatch jaws instead which is a 10/10 not this rubbish!!!

From start to finish this movie was a train wreck of mixed plots, poor story line and ability to pick the direction of the movie in the first 2 minutes. The special effects were up there in regards to the depth but the story line was too all over the place and the scenes laughable in regards to the poor quality done. It felt rushed and not well thought through, it could of been more about the kangaroo then the fathers death which seemed to control the movie too much, also the process of elimiation of kangaroo could of been done in a much more realistic way then dragging it on to the point of boredom.

Most of the kills r offscreen.

Tension n suspense is zero.

When I saw Michael Biehn in the beginning of the movie, I was happy but when his character is shown coming face to face with the monster n that too during the very start of the movie, I thot mayb he must have requested the director to kill off his character at the very beginning so that he doesn't have to continue shooting in this lousy movie.

Nathan Jones is totally wasted.

The lead actress has a resemblance to Jennifer Carpenter.

Thankfully I saw this on a fast forward mode.

The post credit scene doens't make any sense.

Why the lead actress wore the baseball cap throughout the entire movie was beyond me.

Rippy should have been Australia's answer to Cocaine Bear-a wild, blood-soaked, tongue-in-cheek marsupial massacre. Instead, it hops straight into the realm of the forgettable, weighed down by cringe-inducing earnestness, limp storytelling, and a complete lack of self-awareness.

Ryan Coonan's kangaroo slasher arrives with a killer concept: a jacked-up joey goes rogue in the Outback. Sounds like campy gold, right? Wrong. Instead of leaning into the absurdity, Rippy insists on dragging viewers through a desert of maudlin backstory, family trauma, and dead-serious exposition. You'll spend 85% of the runtime wondering if someone accidentally swapped the script with an abandoned Outback soap opera.

Tess Haubrich plays Maddie, a haunted sheriff with daddy issues so cliché they should've come with a warning label. The film opens with her narrating her dead father's legacy like a eulogy from a bad Hallmark movie. It doesn't get better. The emotional weight is forced, unearned, and entirely unnecessary in a film about a murderous kangaroo.

Michael Biehn, bless him, is the only one who understands the assignment. Playing Schmitty, a deranged, bathrobe-wearing bush prophet, he twitches, rants, and throws himself into the ridiculousness with abandon. Unfortunately, the script abandons him, leaving him stranded in a movie that's too embarrassed to be what it should've been: fun.

The kills? Meh. The gore? Minimal. The jokes? Non-existent. Not even a single half-decent pun-no "roo the day," no "marsupial mayhem," not even a cheeky nod to Skippy. When your monster is a murderous kangaroo, you owe the audience at least some wink-wink carnage. But Rippy squanders every opportunity to lean into Ozploitation chaos.

By the time the film finally delivers a campy one-liner in the closing minutes, it's too little, too late. You don't make a killer kangaroo movie and spend 90 minutes pretending you're making Mystic River.

Following a string of bizarre deaths, the head of a small town's local wildlife preservation unit tries to put the strained relationship with her dead father aside to deal with the strange animal responsible, and when they discover the culprit to be a zombified kangaroo tries to stop it.

This was a fun if somewhat problematic creature feature. The main feature of this one is the rather strong setup that allows for a nice bit of world-building inside this community. Featuring the usual assortment of quirky small-town residents that populate this kind of story with the group of locals that are fully fleshed-out and lived in who know each other quite well, this allows for a great supporting group that can bend around the central premise of the relationship issues causing a strain to her job. Trying to overcome the stigma of what happened in the past with the struggle of trying to keep the town safe during this latest series of attacks, this sets up a compelling mystery following the bizarre attacks and some immensely fun action in the second half that gives this a lot to like. There are some big factors that hold this one down. One of the biggest detrimental features is the clear lack of appropriate tone throughout here where it takes itself way too seriously for what's going on. The idea of such an audacious premise involving a zombified kangaroo running loose in a small town community of quirky locals requires such a wild series of setpieces to constantly up the ante with how the creature plays out the rampage. However, here we get far too much melodrama about the family relationship that takes up the centerpiece of the film where it's really hard to stay invested in the storyline when it doesn't focus on the killer kangaroo rampaging across town that it really struggles to maintain the wildness of what's going on. The other big drawback to this one is the ensuing lack of creature action that comes about when it does decide to focus on the creature action. Several scenes are chilling in their concept and setup, mainly involving the team out in the wilderness who get the hint that something is out there but not sure if anything's happening that tends to dominate the admittedly fun second half, but that's the extent of this one. This one never lets the wild action promised in the setup come to fruition and far too many of the previous rampage scenes are done off-screen rather than deal with anything on-screen as the kills are barely featured until the end and a majority are brief flashes rather than anything else. These factors are all enough to bring this one down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

I don't know why aussie film makers feel the need to cater to American audiences these days but I wish they would stop even the synopsis calls the the cop a sherriff, which we don't have in Australia in the American form and you certainly wouldn't find find a lone female cop in a mining town, no matter how small nor would ANY cop get together a posse of armed civilians and send them out bush in the dark armed to the teeth, it just wouldn't happen ,whilst I enjoyed the movie for what it was these things were just annoying the hell out of me,and i know why i never saw it listed on any theatre here, the comedy would have been seeing Aussies leaving theatre embarrassed at the americanisation of an Aussie icon, shame on you,stick to making Aussie movies true blue you fools.

Ph the bad reviews are unwarranted.

It's an Australian b movie.

OK the acting is tolerable, the story is great ,effects are fun and not cgi, it's an old fashioned creature feature bloodthirsty horror.

So a mad kangaroo goes about on the rampage leaving death and destruction in its wake. And that is it!!! Funny and gory and just delightful.

It's not believable, even for Australian people.

It's not gonna win awards.

But it is what it says, if you don't like werewolf films or jaws or zombie type movies give this a miss.

A seven foot big red kangaroo , blood n guts and cheesey acting. Top notch!!!

This isn't a perfect film. Not many are and let's face it, the ones that are about zombie kangaroos are probably less likely to be high art.

BUT! There are some surprises to be had with this b-movie.

The film does its best to create a world and characters that feel real and lived in. Even the crazy uncle Shmitty (Michael Biehn) has moments of real connection and pathos.

A film about a zombie kangaroo terrorising a town in the outback firmly places this in b-movie bizarre territory. And yet, there is nothing b-movie about the acting or the cinematography. These two elements sit well above the Sharknado references many will want to make.

However, where those references do make more sense is when you consider the CGI kangaroo, Rippy.

It's not low-fi bad as Sharknado, not even close, but in a world where people are well trained to point the finger at anything less than photo-real, this draws more attention than it needs.

Still, there are real moments of horror, real tension and even a few b-movie laughs along the way.

This is a fun film with a crazy idea that will entertain most that give it a try.

Apart from the countless shark and crocodile horror flicks, at times there pops up a more original animal to grow into horrifying proportions and/or ferocious attitude, like spiders or a cocaine infused bear. But this one beats them all: a giant predator kangaroo!! Unfortunately the image of a kangaroo is hardly scary, so it takes a whole lot - well, even too much imagination, to take it seriously: the sight of this kangaroo hopping around town with blood-dripping jaws to attack the scary residents is just absolutely preposterous! It's CGI-crafted, in a very bad, unrealistic way, its size even changing from scene to scene. The story around it is totally negligible, with an unconvincing heroine that (of course) has to have some equally negligible background. Maybe they should have gone for a horror comedy (like Cocaine Bear), but alas: no laughs here, it's not even camp, we are supposed to take it all dead serious. So my advice: let Rippy the Red hop past your door!

But Rippy - so no pun intended. Which is one of the titles the movie has - at least in Germany, I am not sure if the movie had that title in the US too. I do know that we have Michael Biehn in this ... after fighting the Terminator, he is on to a Roo now (short for Kangaroo in case you are wondering).

Not sure if makes sense to rate the acting in this - it is deliberate over the top to say the least. The effects are quite nice. It is more than predictable - but it is fun to watch, if you let your guard down and just are accepting to low budget horror movies ... it could have been crazier for sure, but it is good as it is ... I would not be surprised if another movie came along (not saying the ending suggest anything of that nature!) ...