Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell

The Beaster Bunny, or as it's called here "Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell" not sure who Peter Cottonhell is in the film, but I digress. The film is not great.

The plot is a bit rubbish, but I found that it fell together a little bit better than other ultra low budget films, it had conflicts between the two main characters, one arguing with her Father about getting a job, the other, Doug, believing he should have won employee of the year again.

The special effects were poor, but had a sort of low budget charm to them. The music was bad, and the acting wasn't great either, although you could tell there was an element of tongue in cheek. The ending felt a bit rushed too.

3/10: Mildly enjoyable low budget horror, with a somewhat unique villain and lots of kills.

"Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell" is a film that reportedly cost about $150,000 to make. Amazingly, as I watched, I couldn't understand how it even cost a tenth of that! After all, there is nothing professional at all about this mess of a film and it's terrible in just about every way. And, perhaps this is being charitable! But, oddly, it's strangely watchable in its awfulness and fortunately it never takes itself seriously. Because of this it reminds me of a much lower budgeted and even cheesier version of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"...with lots of gratuitous nudity, blood and foul language.

The film has little in the way of plot or acting. Much of the film simply consists of total idiots or women who inexplicably take their clothes off that are eaten by a 50 foot rat-like creature. While this sounds pretty dumb, it's much worse. The 'killer bunny' is obviously a marionette and the filmmakers really don't try very hard to make it look realistic. It rips people in half again and again throughout the movie--and repeatedly the incompetent stoner mayor keeps insisting that the killings are all being perpetrated by some Amish who have gone bad! So it's up to the one semi-competent member of the local animal control unit to put a stop to this madness.

Do I recommend the film? Well, maybe. If you have a high tolerance for the offensive and like a good laugh, then my all means give the movie a chance. It is pretty funny in a brainless sort of way. Better yet, see it with a group of like-minded friends so you can all sit around and laugh at this mess of a film. If, however, you the sort who impatiently waits for the next season of "Downton Abbey" or want to show a film to your Sunday school class, then perhaps you might just want to skip this incredibly silly and amateurish film. One way or another, don't say I didn't warn you!

UK title - The Beaster Bunny. A giant rabbit is on a rampage at Easter, killing everybody that comes across it. No explanation as to why it is 50ft tall is given, but then that does not seem important here. Difficult to rate this one. On the one hand it's simply awful, in particular the "special" effects yet it is also hilariously and stupidly funny. It's fast paced with kills every ten minutes and they are pretty gory plus it has some gratuitous nudity. There is also a crazy Mayor, with a nod to Jaws. I have watched this for the last two Easters but will probably give it a miss for the next two. It's a case of being outrageously funny first time round but the laughs will wear thin with repeated viewings.

Quite possibly the stupidest movie ever made. Yep, it's dumb. It is horrible. It is cheap. It is incredibly stupid. It is hilarious.

Man, you have got to see this rabbit. It is unbelievable. It must have cost $17 and taken about 45 minutes for them to create this rabbit. It is undoubtedly the worst rabbit possible. Nothing that you can imagine will even come close to rabbit. You have to see it to believe it.

I usually pick movies to watch based solely on the title and dvd cover. I really need to start doing more research. I thought this would be a mildly entertaining, almost scary death fest. It was more like a Troma movie with slightly better production. I would have never even been able to guess that it was a rabbit. That being said, the last 10 minutes was really good. I actually laughed a couple times. There are worse killer Easter bunny movies.