''Rottentail'' is a 2019 American comedy

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directed by Brian Skiba and starring

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and

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. The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Kevin Moyers and David C. Hayes. The film focuses on researcher Peter Cotton (

) who gets bitten by a mutant rabbit, and then transforms into half-man/half-bunny who kills the local town.

Plot

Peter Cotton is a meek fertility researcher. The military believes his genetic work can be used to create super-soldiers. When one of his genetically-engineered rabbits bites him, Cotton is transformed into Rottentail. He returns to his home town, Easter Falls, on Holy Saturday and begins to take revenge on everyone who bullied and wronged him. He eventually starts pursuing the girl who rejected him as a teen.

Cast

as Peter Cotten / Rottentail *

as Anna Banana *

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as Jake Mulligan *

as Dr. Serius Stanley * Tank Jones as General Phelps * Vincent De Paul as Principal Meyers * Brian Skiba as Billy * Mark Speno as Dr. Major Donelly * Elizabeth Isaacson as Church Parishioner * Laurie Love as Mayor Riggs

Reception

The film has received mostly negative reviews from critics. On

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, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, and an average rating of . Noel Murray from the ''

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'' noted that the film is "as goofy as it is gory" and that it is "overlong and the humor’s too broad"

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* *{{Rotten tomatoes, rottentail 2019 films American comedy horror films Films based on American comics Live-action films based on comics 2010s English-language films Films directed by Brian Skiba 2010s American films