This year’s Easter Day has come and gone, and I hope everyone made the best of their current situation. I certainly did by watching John Bacchus’ holiday horror comedy, Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell. Yes, that is the whole title listed on IMDB.
In a small town run by a sketchy mayor, a giant and grotesque bunny terrorizes and dismembers the locals. It’s up to a dedicated dog catcher and failed actress to stop this heinous monster before the annual Easter Day celebration turns into a mass crucifixion.
The film opens with Doug, a dog catcher who works for a company named Dog Catchers in Rye. Joining him at the company is Brenda, who didn’t make it big in Hollywood and finds herself living back home. They are both wildly unlikeable with Doug’s obsession with stuffing items down his pants, and Brenda being a peevish slacker.
With a run time of one hour and 27 minutes, Beaster Day definitely could’ve been cut a little shorter. But, Bacchus makes up for it by throwing you side-splitting scenes with over-the-top deaths.
The death scenes in Beaster Day are just so incredibly outlandish. The killer bunny seems to target the bustiest of the townsfolk while coincidently removing their tops before biting off an arm or decapitating them.
The graphics are almost all CGI except for the bunny itself. Peter Cottonhell is a rod puppet superimposed into the scenes and scaled to look like a giant. The puppet is deranged looking with huge fangs and a hilariously sinister hop. It honestly looks like something I would have on display in my home.
In the midst of the killer bunny chaos, there are some shots of beautiful landscape that sets the tone for the rural town. Hilariously, I enjoyed the contrast between the scenery and the “horror” aspects of the film.
Ya’ll, I eat this stuff up. I’ve never seen a film like Beaster Day, and that is one of the many reasons why I love the B-horror genre. Sometimes, I don’t need a movie to have reasonable structure or award-winning acting. Sometimes, I just need a stupid looking puppet to eat people. Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell is streaming on Amazon Prime.
Brittany Fernandez is a Lifestyle Writer for SoBros Network as well as one half of the Haunted Home Video team. She’s a Nashville native covering events on the local scene, B-movie horror reviews, and everything in between. Her go to karaoke song is “No Diggity.” Follow on Twitter: @brittbutspooky
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