Kottentail

Okay first off the effects are purposely cheesy. An obviously stuffed bunny rabbit on a visible string is used as a prop. This is totally a comedy, and has virtually no real horror elements whatsoever. Thats not why i'm giving it a less then stellar review though, as I knew I was getting a campy micro budget film. For one thing, although the movie does offer some skin, and scantily clad women, it's not nearly enough. There are certain situations in the film, where much more should have been revealed. The women are lovely, and this had way too many cut away scenes. Ultimately the one thing this has going for it, is the ladies are very likable, and talented, and I got a few chuckles out of there performances. Unfortunately they were too few, and far between.

Kottentail is a low-budget horror that is intentionally very cheezy. Many of the scene transitions are accomplished with a video effect that makes the screen look like a comic book complete with caption. The rabbit at the testing facility is a stuffed bunny rabbit, not a real stuffed rabbit even, but a cutesy one. It moves by a string or by the camera cutting away. Poking further fun at that is the fact that they said the rabbit freaked out at the sight of a stuffed rabbit, an even cutesier one. There's a security guard with an inked-on beard. Several characters have phony accents. At least one person plays two roles.

The film takes place around Easter, so if you're looking for an Easter holiday horror movie, this is one of the few.

Most of the women are large-breasted and show a lot of cleavage, dressing down to their underwear on several occasions. One shot of nudity appears to have been taken from another movie, though there is a pre-shower scene where the nudity isn't a double. Oddly, one sex scene has the woman dressed in a white terrycloth robe.

A couple of animal activist's free a rabbit from a research facility. The rabbit attacks Hans Kottentail and he begin's to attack people. The animal activist's team up with a scientist, a police woman and a sorority girl to defeat the rabbit.

Well, this set's out to be different and this is obvious when at the very beginning of the film the rabbit is shown. I do not want to spoil this, so will not describe the rabbit here. At first I was scratching my head thinking "what the heck", but by the end thought that this set the tone for the film nicely.

All of the characters seem to be having fun and all the women in the film provide something nice to look at. All dress in sexy bunny outfits to lure the killer bunny-man at the end.

I liked the style of the film and the animated comic book sequences added to the feel of the film.

Is this the first every Easter horror? Take it in the spirit of an indie production that is not to be taken seriously and you should come away with some laughs and entertainment value.

Well, as the movie starts out with a toy bunny that is supposed to pass for a real bunny, being prodded with an electrical prod and being pulled around on a string, then you know exactly what kind of movie you are in for. I mean, it was so fake that it couldn't even fool a blind man.

"Kottentail" is through and through fully low budget, and the movie makers do not try to hide it. In fact, they utilize it to the point where it becomes a spoof and the whole absurdity and extremity of it all actually makes it fun to watch.

The characters are right in tune with the rest of the movie, caricatures, over-the-top, often speaking with awfully phony accents, and delivering bad dialogue. But again, it works in tune with the atmosphere of the movie.

Even the effects are as to be expected. For example, the ears that Hans grew, it was LARP elven plastic ears put on his real ears. Yes, it was as clear as day. Especially because they didn't even apply Foundation or anything to match the actors real skin tone. And the sound that Kottentail made, it was just hilarious.

While "Kottentail" will not be a movie that appeals to the mass audience, it is still a fun spoofy movie that is so outrageously bad that it is just sheer fun to witness. I enjoyed it for what it was.

As a closing statement, then I will say that "Kottentail" is the type of movie that you watch once and never again. It just doesn't have enough meat on it to sustain multiple viewings.

It's not often that an independent film can make me laugh until tears roll down my cheeks but that's exactly what happened as I watched Kottentail. The film begins with a beautiful, buxom, blonde scientist doing some experiments on a laboratory rabbit. Later that night two PETA wannabe's decide to do their good deed and break into the labs, releasing the tortured animals. When they get there all they find is the aforementioned rabbit, and they do set it free. Just like in any good horror movie, the rabbit soon attacks someone(an immigrant farmer), who then begins to undergo an odd transformation. Excellent jokes, gore and hijinx ensue.

What really makes this movie work is a fantastic screenplay. It doesn't rely on fart jokes and gross out scenes to affect the viewer, if gives us an odd assortment of memorable characters and puts them in a crazy situation that they fight to survive. It perfectly plays off the horror movie stereotypes but still manages to surprise you. I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, Kottentail is one of the best horror/comedies ever made. If you're a fan of B movies and are willing to overlook a low budget, you must add this one to your collection because you'll want to watch it over and over again.