10 Movies Everyone Wished Were WAY Crazier

It's probably fair to say that Cocaine Bear never really stood a chance of living up to its title, poster, or gloriously insane trailer.

But at the same time, a horror-comedy about a coke-huffing bear slaughtering its way through a National Forest should be pretty wild, right?

While Cocaine Bear does deliver some gnarly gore and barmy set-pieces, it's ultimately a relatively tame and dignified affair compared to the more rough-edged, nasty, f**ked up movie you were probably hoping for.

Clearly the biggest issue is the movie's baffling decision to focus so much of its scant 95-minute runtime on human characters you won't ever be compelled to care about. Again, this is in a film about a substance-afflicted bear killing people.

The bear is kept off-screen for long portions of the movie, presumably to keep the budget down, and overall director Elizabeth Banks keeps the focus far more intently on comedy than horror, which is a shame.

For all of its marketing as Hollywood's next big wild B-movie, Cocaine Bear feels oddly ordinary - an excessively sanitised, tidied-up riff on a deliriously amusing idea.