Hundreds of Beavers 2024

**By: Louisa Moore / ** This blur was buried at Fantastic Fest I appear several above blur festivals every year, and it’s consistently a amusement to ascertain a gem that’s ambuscade about in the accurate void. Genre blur fests are amid the best absorbing because they advertise absolute horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and added avant-garde, eccentric, micro-budget works of art. That’s why administrator Mike Cheslik‘s “Hundreds of Beavers” was the absolute fit for Fantastic Fest. This atramentous and white bold of man vs. aholic is my admired blur that I saw at the anniversary this year, and it’s not alike close. In what I can alone call as a Looney Tunes action meets Charlie Chaplin meets “Cannibal! The Musical,” this dialogue-free blur tells the adventure of an often-drunk applejack salesman who wants to become the greatest fur trapper in North America. The alone way he can ability his ambition is to defeat hundreds of beavers in the snow-covered woods. It’s a simple plot, but the amusement is on point and the situations our hero finds himself in are actually hilarious. Those with a affection for ball will acknowledge the whimsy that defines the absolute film. Although this is a bashful blur with no dialogue, it’s absorbing from the get-go. To accomplish a activity like this so absorbing takes a altered affectionate of accomplishment from a filmmaking team, and Cheslik forth with co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews accept an automatic ability for the amusing and absurd. You’d anticipate the one hour and forty eight minute run time would be excessive, but it doesn’t feel ever continued at all. That’s aloof alarming and is a attestation to how able the storytelling is. To acknowledge too abounding artifice credibility would ruin the surprises because this is a blur about analysis in the moment. Alike the attending of the beavers is hysterical, and back commutual with goofy, abstract facial expressions and scenes that are evocative of Wile E. Coyote block the Roadrunner, it’s accessible to become absorbed in the applesauce of it all. As the trapper begins to abate his bristling foes one by one, awkward action registers the aholic kills. His accessories become added inventive, clever, and abandoned as he embarks on his adventure to abate a backwoods abounding of beavers. The blur ends with a amazing sled and snowball hunt afterpiece that’s as agitative as it is ridiculous, and the amusement drifts amid aphotic and blithe with ease. “Hundreds of Beavers” is a accurate accomplishment in camp absolute filmmaking, and I am actuality for every aftermost bead of it.

This is a absurd "wait for it" film. Pleasantly surprised.

Hunky "Jean" (Ryland Tews) has absolutely a acknowledged little cider business until the annoying beavers administer to destabilise the accomplished action abrogation him abandoned with annihilation but the clothes he stands up in - and with an adamantine winter approaching. It's alone now that he realises aloof how abundant the area favours the critters who charge now become his casualty if he's to survive and not abjure to death. The rabbits are no slouches, the angle no fools and the beavers - able-bodied they are absolutely absolutely barbarous as they fell aloof about every timberline they can acquisition to ammunition a architecture that makes the Aswan dam attending like the assignment of an amateur. Luckily, there is a banker (Doug Mancheski) with a admirable babe (Olivia Graves) who will accumulation all sorts of advantageous things in acknowledgment for pelts, so with the advice of an able trapper (Wes Tank) and his anxiously fatigued map of the lares and snares, off he sets on a alternation of frequently laugh-out-loud escapades that about brings the best of Warner Bros. animation ability to life. The ball is bound paced ball and you can usually see the punchlines from space, but it does assignment amidst this albino wilderness area our hero charge eat or be eaten. His gradually acid abilities see him use a bit of science, austere assurance and endless of dark luck to gradually access his visits to the trader, become bigger able and added loved-up. The appellation gives us a clue as to what amount the man has put on his daughter, and so that's anon the absolute assignment for "Jean" but them toothy-beasts ain't aloof activity to abandonment - abnormally back we do acquisition out what is activity on in their industrial-scale circuitous on the water. It's abundant too long, though, and at times it's a bit like a lath bold area we aloof go annular and annular (gathering points) rehashing the aforementioned old scenarios and jokes, and I acquainted the aftermost twenty account did annoyance a little - but for the best allotment it's allotment Chaplin, allotment Harold Lloyd with $.25 of "Grizzly Adams" befuddled in too. It's absorbing and who knew you could do so abundant with a beaver's innards...?