
Run time: 95 mins
Bears on blow run wild in the (very) loosely inspired horror comedy everyone’s talking about.
In 1985 Georgia, a drug-running pilot drops duffel-bags of cocaine in a remote forest where an unsuspecting black bear quickly develops a taste. Mobster Syd (Liotta) sends his over-emotional son Eddie and henchman Daveed to collect the drugs. Meanwhile, mother Sari is looking for her 13-year-old daughter, who has skipped school to go hiking with her friend. Also trundling around the forest are park ranger Liz, state detective Bob and a group of three opportunistic teen thugs. As each of their paths intertwine, they find themselves collectively hunted by the frenzied mama bear who’ll stop at nothing to get her claws on more of the white stuff.
The traditional low-budget horror is all but extinct. Snakes on a Plane and Sharknado brought in a whole new generation of B-movies and in similar spirit Cocaine Bear does pretty much exactly what you’d expect it to do. Somehow finding a balance between extreme gore, outrageous comedy and terrible dialogue, director Elizabeth Banks manages to deliver 90 minutes of crazed cinema that’s destined to become a cult classic, if it isn’t already. If some goofy, grisly fun is what you’re after, this is the one.