Horror comes in many forms. This time it's in the shape of Bunni.
The only thing redeeming about Daniel Benedict's Bunni is that it
clocks in at a mercifully short seventy minutes. I found myself begging for it to end about
ten minutes in and clawed my eyes out for the other sixty while still trying to
give it a real chance. I want to say though that I liked
the idea! Bunni had the potential
to be a real nail biting, raw slasher with a convincing anti-hero, if it was
done correctly. But, I think a rough
two-thousand dollar budget could make it very hard to yield what Mr. Benedict's
real vision could have been.
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The only real convincing performance
in Bunni was executed by Mercedez Varble playing the lead role of Paige. It was a wise casting choice on
the part of Mr. Benedict to put her out front as she clearly has the most chops
compared to the rest of the cast. All of
the other acting in this film is frankly cringe worthy. I found myself cracking up at most of the
lines that the character Ashley (played by Sara Ammons) clumsily delivered
throughout Bunni. I mean, it came
to the point that I actually was beginning to think that maybe there was
something wrong with me. “Has old man
Scott just lost his marbles and cannot coherently understand a film anymore?”, was what I was asking about halfway through Bunni. I mean, I like campy as much as the next
person, but if there was something else trying to be done here, it just flew
right over my head.
I really tried to find something I
loved about Bunni, I really did.
But, even the “twists” this movie had, I saw coming from a mile
away. OK, I will say, I was a little
thrown by the ending, but, I did not find myself saying “Whoa, that was
clever”, but more like “Why the hell did they do that? That added no value.” However, that is just an opinion, as is the
rest of this review. I am sure there are a lot of people
who will be in love with Bunni.
It is a rather bloody film and if anything, the violence in the film
looks pretty damn good. However, a
stronger, more cohesive plot could have complimented that and made Bunni
a much more interesting film for me.
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-Scott L. Lambert