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Lucy (Brooke Markham) and Karen (VyVy Nguyen) work at a small town ice
cream parlor doing what's basically dead end jobs, slowly seeing their
ambitions fading, when a weird woman (Erin Daniels) comes in after closing
time and demands to be served despite not having any money. When she's
refused service, she has her handpuppet (!) scratch Lucy's arm and curses
her to become a werewolf. The girls take this seriously enough to drive to
a locked down camp site where Karen is to shoot Lucy dead should she
actually turn. That said, the girls haven't actually thought this through,
and somehow a colleague from work, Eric (Jimmy Bellinger) turns up to
fright them shitless but gets shot dead by Karen instead, and eventually
Lucy actually does turn - and from here on things spin out of control, as
somehow Eric's revived as a zombie, the girls' boss shows up and proves to
be a cryptozoologist, and even Bigfoot makes a surprise appearance ... As
a whole, horror comedies are very hit or miss, with the majority falling
into the miss-category - but this is a rather delightful one, basically
because it centers more than on the horror action on its two central
characters, who are actually very well-written and have something of a Laurel
and Hardy vibe to them. And that both Brooke Markham and VyVy
Nguyen do a really good job embodying them, warts and all, and develop the
necessary on-screen chemistry really helps to bring this to life, as does
a directorial effort well-versed in both horror and comedy, to make this
into one piece of really fun genre entertainment.
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