Now available for streaming on Peacock, this film stars a cocaine-addled bear that murders people.Yet one sight in particular, the Cocaine Bear ambulance scene, sticks out among the sea of powdered stimulants and bloody guts. No offence intended to the rest of the film, but if you just wanted to skip that scene, which occurs roughly halfway through the film, you'd be good to go.
Simple is the basis of Cocaine Bear.A black bear consumes a lot of cocaine, gains superhuman abilities from the drug, and mauls numerous victims. The movie takes place in a Georgia national forest in 1985 and is loosely based on a genuine story. Margo Martindale was cast by director Elizabeth Banks as Liz, a tough-as-nails park warden, in a brilliant choice.
Liz escapes the coked-up bear's attack the first time, but she is less fortunate the second time. The bear gets Liz good after mistakenly killing a few innocent men hey, it happens, tensions are high.
However, she is still alive.Two paramedics show up, claiming to be responding to a report regarding a potential concussion.
When Beth (Kahyun Kim) and Tom (Scott Seiss, a popular TikTok user) arrive to the park ranger station, they are completely unprepared for the horrifying scene that awaits them.
The works: blood, intestines, and dead bodies.But hold on! One of us is still alive! Margo Martindale, a character actor, is here. Despite being seriously hurt, she is still breathing.
Beth does her hardest to get Ranger Liz inside the ambulance because she performs her job a little bit better than Tom. Sadly, that is the time the cocaine bear decides to return for more. The next action scene in the movie is by far its best.
Tom is held down beneath a door by the 400-pound bear while Beth is bringing Liz to the ambulance. It growls in Tom's face while its bloodied lips is drooling with guts.
Tom hits the bear with his medical duffel bag, but the bear is unaffected, so there is no evident harm done to the animal. It's an absolute bea. But fortunately, this bear is also an addict, and the last duffel bag it found was overflowing with blow.
Tom succeeds in escaping since the bear was preoccupied by the possible cocaine. The far-too-good-for-this-bullshit Beth has kept the ambulance idling, waiting for Tom, despite Ranger Liz's wise advise to leave Tom behind.
Tom rushes out and yells at Beth to start the car.She complies. The chase starts as the first chords of Depeche Mode's 1981 hit song "Just Can't Get Enough" start to play, adding to the enjoyment of the moment.
This is the goofy, entertaining terror that the Cocaine Bear promo promised. Seiss, who rose to fame on TikTok for his amusing, irate outbursts, is equally funny in his clumsy terror on the big screen.
Margo Martindale screams at him to "shut the fucking door, you dumb ass," to which he responds, "Stop yelling at me!" Martindale made up that statement, fun fact! She is perhaps the best character actor.)
Sadly, Tom moves too slowly. The bear leaps into the ambulance's back in one impossibly large leap. And after that, everyone is utterly destroyed.
There are no survivors, it's nasty, and it's gory. Margo Martindale, a 71-year-old character actor, dies a very repulsive death: she is thrown out of the ambulance and scratches her face on the side of the road like cheese in a cheese grater.
Director Elizabeth Banks said during a Vulture interview that she had a specific source of inspiration for Martindale's on-screen demise. You remember when you were seven years old and fell off your bike and scraped your knee on the pavement? said Banks. "Everyone can identify with that emotion.
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