Cocaine Bear Is a Metaphor—Or Maybe Just About a Bear on Cocaine

Elizabeth Banks’s Cocaine Bear is exactly what it sounds like. The highly gruesome horror comedy is based on an actual incident: In 1985, a narcotics officer turned drug smuggler accidentally dropped 40 containers of cocaine from his plane into Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. Months later, a black bear was found dead in Georgia, next to clawed-open bags of the missing drugs. An autopsy revealed the bear had absorbed three or four grams of cocaine into its bloodstream. Banks’s film takes this stranger-than-fiction tale and reimagines the bear on a coke-fueled, murderous rampage, leaving a trail of gore in its wake…. Read Full Article