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Attack of the Killer Shrews!
USA 2016
produced by Ken Cosentino, Bill Kennedy, Baird Hageman, Gary Marino (executive), Nick Arnot (associate), Marcus Ganci-Rotella (associate) for White Lion Studios
directed by Ken Cosentino
starring Bill Kennedy, Elizabeth Houlihan, Jonathan Rogers, Baird Hageman, Marcus Ganci-Rotella, Cheryl Szymczak, Mick O'Keefe, Bill Brown, James Ventry, Sam Qualiana, Paul Spitale, Jb Aaron, Ken Cosentino, Joe Cliff Thompson, Joseph Giambra, Keith Lukowski, Dale Rugg, Steve Losey, with an introduction by Lloyd Kaufman
written by Ken Cosentino, music by Jay A. Wollin
Killer Shrews
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It should have been a comparatively quiet evening at Professor Perry's
(Jonathan Rogers) as he was to present his book with his PR agent Lewis
(Marcus Ganci-Rotella), Lewis' girlfriend Cassandra (Cheryl Szynczak) and
B-movie starlet Fiona (Elizabeth Houlihan) ... until Dr. Murdock (Mick
O'Keefe), the neighbourhood mad scientist, stumbles in, all bloodied and
everything, and claims to have been attacked by killer shrews - apparently
he has experimented with ... well, stuff, and instead of curing rabies he
has created man-sized shrews that are ... well, killers, too. And it soon
becomes apparent that the professor's house is not only under siege, the
shrews have actually found a way in, so they all, with the help of Sheriff
Blake (Bill Kennedy) and deputy Wayne (Baird Hageman) try to make it to
town for some help and to warn the populace, but there are quite a few
shrews around so the mission experiences many a setback and the shrews
make it to town before our heroes. Eventually, the army moves in, but they
seem to find no cure for the shrews-problem, so the president decides to
nuke the town - and now our heroes have a real problem at hand if they
want to get out alive ...
As the title already suggests, this is a reworking of 1959's The
Killer Shrews with definite parodistic purposes: As the original
film, this one was done on a shoestring and with not totally convincing
special effects - and to be honest, sometimes the lack of quality with the
creature effects is a bit too obvious in this movie. But that said, the
film's still tons of fun as the cast is quite obviously in on the joke,
the audience is in on the joke, and even if the plot's intentionaly
formulaic, it still holds quite a few surprises that do get lots of laughs
out of one. In all, it's probably best watched with a couple of mates and
at least as many beers, as it really offers itself to being a great party
movie!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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