Everyone needs to see The Weed Eaters

This story was originally published on The Spinoff.

I really didn’t want to see The Weed Eaters. As a “minuscule-budget stoner horror”, it falls into none of my preferred genres of film. I’m terrified of horrors (can barely watch a thriller) and the only stoner movie I’ve loved is Friday (1995).

So I saw the blurb for The Weed Eaters and thought good on you but not for me.

The night before its NZIFF  premiere, I drank 2x beers and had my arm twisted into seeing it (“just close your eyes if you’re scared”). I have never been so thankful for peer pressure because watching The Weed Eaters with hundreds of other film fans at The Civic was the most fun I’ve had at the movies in a long time, and The Weed Eaters has cemented itself as my favourite local film in recent memory. 

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