Cocaine Bear (2023)
Directed by Elizabeth Banks
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
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A throwback to the goofy horror comedies of the 1980s and 1990s—movies like “Tremors” and “Arachnophobia”—but with the added nastiness today’s audiences expect, “Cocaine Bear” has already achieved popular notoriety on the basis of internet chatter.
The tone of this film certainly wants to help itself fit alongside films such as Tremors , Piranha, and Arachnophobia.
Cocaine Bear makes Sharknado look like Tremors , and it makes Snakes on a Plane look like Citizen Kane .
Ostensibly based on true events (but let’s be serious, there’s no way any of this really happened to the degree we see here), Cocaine Bear could be a proto-sequel to Tom Cruise‘s American Made in a funny way – In the spring of 1985, a drug dealer airdrops bricks of cocaine in the Tennessee mountains, but gets himself knocked out and falls to his death with over 70 pounds of the drug.
(If you saw Tom Cruise’s American Made, that also dealt with a similar scheme about dumping drugs over remote areas.)
Once she catches up with them, the violence is realistically graphic, bloodier and more unnerving than even Leonardo DiCaprio’s much-discussed ordeal in The Revenant.