Review – Killer Shrews

Here’s a concept that works less and less the closer you look at it. As a general idea, there’s a lot of merit to making a movie about science gone bad. Goodness knows no end of better movies have been made around experiments with disastrous results. But things start to go wrong when the experiment in question is designed to produce giant shrews. The logic isn’t bad. I’m sure if shrews really were as big as the rug-draped dogs that play them in this movie, they’d probably be quite troublesome indeed. However, it’s just hard to get past the notion that the film-makers are trying to scare us with … well, with giant shrews. Even that might have survived if the production – particularly the script and acting – hadn’t been so awful. Thus the final product is good for not much more than a few laughs at the dreadfulness of it all. See if desperate