Tuesday, 1 August 2023

Cocaine Cougar (2023)


Just about everything you could expect of a 50-minute movie (roughly a third of which is taken up by opening and closing credits) quickly cranked out in the wake of "Cocaine Bear"'s release, "Cocaine Cougar" pits a handful of bad no-name actors against a coked up cougar on the streets of LA. The results are equal parts excruciating and hilarious, although the movie -- terrible as it surely is -- is vastly preferable to "Cocaine Shark" (high praise, I know) and at least features the creature its name promises. Said creature is, naturally, a very low quality rendering of a cougar superimposed over various scenes of people pretending to be savaged, except for a couple of fully digital scenes that look and feel more like video game inserts than anything vaguely resembling a film scene. Anyway, this movie is at least kinda funny in that way that so many terrible Tubi movies are, and you have to admire the chutzpah the filmmakers show by abruptly ending it at the 40-minute mark so that they can tease a sequel that nobody wants but I'll probably watch.












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