Two truckers, Joseph and Luke (Bill Burr and John Mayer), carrying toxic waste, hit a deer in the road. The impact knocks a drum full of waste off the truck where it rolls into a beaver dam. The drum springs a leak and toxic sludge is sprayed over the beavers. The toxic waste turns the beavers into zombies.
Sometime later, three sorority girls, Mary (Rachel Melvin), Zoe (Cortney Palm), and Jenn (Lexi Atkins) arrive at a cabin situated on the lake where the beaver dam is constructed. The cabin belongs to Mary’s cousin. The girls decided to spend the weekend at the cabin as sort of a bonding event. Jenn is trying to get over the fact that her boyfriend Sam (Hutch Dano) cheated on her.
Not far from their cabin is the home of Winston and Myrne Gregorson (Brent Briscoe and Phyllis Katz). Also running around the woods is a trapper, Smyth (Rex Linn). Otherwise, the girls are pretty much alone. At least until their boyfriends, Tommy (Jake Weary), Buck (Peter Gilroy) and Sam show up. The guys manage to talk the girls into letting them stay.
That evening Jenn is attacked by a zomified beaver that came in through the bathroom window. Tommy manages to beat the creature to death. They wrap it up in a garbage bag and put the bag out on the front porch. In the morning the bag is ripped open, and the beaver is gone. Believing that a wild animal took the carcass, the teenagers decide to go swimming.
While the kids are swimming, they are attacked by the beavers. Buck’s foot gets bitten off but everyone, except Zoe’s dog, manages to make it back to shore. Jenn, who had been on shore, runs back to the cabin to call for help but finds that the phone doesn’t work. The rest of the gang makes it back to the cabin only to be trapped there as a colony of zombeavers closes in.
“Zombeavers” was released in 2014 and was directed by Jordan Rubin. It is an American horror comedy.
Since the monsters are beavers there are a bunch of beaver jokes. Some of the movie is sophomoric and there are some jump scares. For the most part the movie is exactly what you expect it to be, stupid. It is, however, a really fun stupid. There are lots of zombeavers, which are obvious puppets, lots of innuendoes about beavers, copious amounts of blood and gore as well as some nudity. Somewhat funny and somewhat cringe worthy the movie is your basic teenagers get slaughtered in the woods film, no more, no less.
The not so much highlight of the movie is the theme song, “Zombeaver”. The song was written by Jon and Al Kaplan and sung by Nick Amado. The film also includes a blooper reel before the ending credits.
Movie
Zombeaver Theme