After seeing some really well done, or at least well intention-ed movies, it’s nice to see one that just doesn’t care. I mostly picked this movie thinking it was from SyFy, but I sorta want to see deer and other herbivores kill people. Is that sick?
We discussed on the podcast at some point about cats that had eaten their owner. It was discussed how they would have no feelings chowing down on them in the instant they felt hungry and food wasn’t provided. I think someone made Rise of the Animals based around this premise.
Rise of the Animals kicks off with a woman being attacked by an average looking house cat. The cat lunges at the woman, she smacks it with a frying pan (which made me chuckle) and she then stuffs the cat down the garbage disposal. Her phone rings, it’s her son. He is then chased by a squirrel that just ate his friend. This is how the movie starts. The “cold opening” so to speak.
The main protagonist “Wolf” is a pizza boy. Wolf and Jake are going to go to a movie opening that night, but get side-tracked delivering one last pizza. The house they are delivering it to just happens to be full of college aged girls, in their underwear, drinking. They decide to stay the night, but in the morning things go from great to shit, in a matter of seconds.
Animals have started to turn against humanity. A group of deer break down doors and through walls to get at the teens with bloody and disastrous results. Wolf, Jake, his sister Rachel barely escape with their lives. Wolf then decides he needs to get a cell phone back to a girl he has a crush on, Sam, and it’s time for a road trip. That’s pretty much it.
I think Rise of the Animals was made as a joke. I don’t think anyone attached to this movie thought they were making a serious horror movie. I hope not. The writing, acting and directing of this movie are all on a pretty sub-par level. The plot of the film is that animals are killing people all over. Yet the three main characters never really address this, or have any fear of the animals. Of course when one of the characters, Rachel, can out run and then fight a horse to the death, why worry? The majority of the film looks as though someone thought it would be funny to have an entire movie made as if the deer from Evil Dead 2 was real.
I didn’t watch Rise of the Animals thinking I was going to see some mind expanding film. It was obviously made over a long weekend and the majority of the budget went towards making the sparse CG rendered animals and literal buckets of fake blood. Unfortunately, for me at least, this is not so bad a movie as to be enjoyable for that reason either. Once again, I have never made a film that was on Amazon Video, or had it’s own IMDB page, but this really is just not great. The irony is that had it been far worse, it would be worth recommending on that basis. As it stands though, Rise Of The Animals is just kinda boring.
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