Crew
Director – Brad Twigg, Screenplay – Todd Martin, Story – Brad Twigg & Gary Lee Vincent, Producers – Kevin Kangas, John Migliore, Brad Twigg & Gary Lee Vincent, Photography – Juan Sanchez, Music – Mike Trebilcock, Visual Effects Supervisor – John Migliore, Makeup Effects – Jamie Apple & Alan Carnes. Production Company – Fuzzy Monkey Films/Burning Bulb Productions/Borderline Cinema.
Cast
Rosario Eraso (Finn), Justin P. Martin (Frankie), Gary Lee Vincent (Sheriff Jonathan), Jessa Flux (Charlotte), Chris O’Brocki (Denny), Hunter Redfern (Aiden), Angel Bradford (Denise), Tim Hale (Carlos), Morrigan Milam (Natasha), John A. Russo (Lewis Smith), Steven Kiseleski (Jethro), Jimmie Lee (Lenny), Beth Metcalf (Sheila), Wesley Benson (Allen), Tom Hoover (Rudy Ledbetter), Solon Tsangaras (Dutch), Jason Dunn (Brother Fred), Carly Sonafelt (Jenny)
Plot
The drug dealer Denny and his boyfriend Frankie have driven out into the back country to deliver some drugs. However, the sheriff tailing them causes them to panic and throw the package of drugs out the window before they are pulled over. The discarded supplies contain samples of Acid Mind Drainage, a drug that has been causing people who ingest it to turn psychotic. The drugs are now imbibed by a raccoon. The psychotically crazed raccoon goes on a killing spree, eliminating Denny, people in the area and a group of friends that have ventured into the countryside for the weekend.
Brad Twigg is a director based in West Virginia. He first appeared with Ghoulish Tales (2014) and went on to MILFs vs Zombies (2015), Fiendish Fables (2016), Killer Campout (2017), WrestleMassacre (2018), Deathboard (2020), Shriekshow (2022) and Killer Campout Part II (2024), while he has also produced and directed episodes of a crapload of horror anthologies.
The mainstream released Cocaine Bear (2023) was a modest hit. It was based on a real-life incident where a bear ingested a haul of cocaine. In reality, the bear was killed by the drugs, but the film was happy to make up its own story and have the bear running around attacking people while high. This seems to have given inspiration to a host of low-budget filmmakers who have created an assortment of other drug-fuelled animal films with the likes of Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space (2022), Cocaine Cougar (2023), Cocaine Shark (2023), Methgator (2023), Cocaine Werewolf (2024) and Cocaine Roaches (2025).
Crackcoon sits right on an edge between Bad Movie stakes and occasional passable amusement. In this sense its approach is not unlike Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space, although it doesn’t push over into outright comedy and start spoofing its own shortcomings like that film did. It is a low-budget film and comes with some corners cut. On the other hand, it passes the time with some amiability and without sinking to any levels of true ineptitude.
The crackcoon itself it is a cheap and immobile puppet that gets waggled about as the cast make a valiant effort to give the impression they are wrestling with it. Each of the attacks is accompanied by massive amounts of arterial blood spray. There are some amateurish performances among the cast but most of those in the leads get by adequately without having to ascend to Troma level of wild overacting. Brad Twigg also manages to get most of the female cast, excepting lead Rosario Eraso, topless at various points – Morrigan Milam is even attacked by the crackcoon while in bed as it first starts eating her hoo-ha.
Trailer here