Snow Bunnies – review

Director: Robert Dean III

Release date: 2025

Contains spoilers

According to Wiktionary a snow bunny is “An inexperienced, usually female skier”, but it can also mean “A white woman who pursues sexual relationships with black men.” We are definitely within the latter definition with this film. It is a film that embeds itself deeply into urban language, and works this well as the main two characters come across well. It is, however, perhaps too simplistic in plot and execution.

fangs

It starts with viral internet star ThatBoyFunny (himself) in a house, trying doors that are locked and clearly fleeing for his life. The scene is filmed with a blue filter and we see the female figure stalking him has rows of fang-like teeth. She gets him and goes in for the kill. Elsewhere, Kevin (Richard Washington) is trying to watch TV but his girlfriend wants to talk… He has no job (he’s just got out of jail), his car has been in the shop for what feels like forever, and he is basically mooching. She breaks up with him and allows him one more night in the apartment.

Kevin and AJ

The next day his friend AJ (Rayvon McKay) was meant to be picking him up but decided he was too busy with a lady. AJ is the bad influence in his life, dropping out of college was down to AJ as was his jail time. AJ offers to get him a job… which turns out to be at the pizza parlour he works at. There Kevin meets Butta (Fats Da Barber) and he gets dragged along with Butta and AJ when they go to a strip joint.

at the pizza joint

At the club he is miserable; he has no money and doesn’t want to be there. However AJ and Butta have lots of money. They explain that a group of women had given them the money after they bought them shots. Kevin tries to return the money but the women insist its ok. There are five of them and they are having a whale of a time, giving the dancers money themselves. They all end up partying. The following day two of the women, Autumn (Delaney Roberts) and Heather (Gem Jewels), find Kevin and AJ at the pizza parlour and invite them to a dinner party.

the sisters

Of course they go, though Kevin has reservations. Those reservations are not eased when, on arrival, the menu for the dinner party seems awfully stereotyped (including fried chicken and watermelon). When there they discover that three more black men are also there for the meal, Walt (Stephen Wesley Green), Nick (Shaquan Parson) and Tim (Earrien Freeman), and they also find Bethany (Veronica Baldwin), Rachael (Summer Lopez) and Bridget (Jatiana Smith) there. The five are described as sisters, one wears ThatBoyFunny’s pendant and chain, which Kevin recognises as the disappearance has made the news.

Christopher Riley as Mr Black 

They also meet their father, Mr Black (Christopher 'White Dolemite' Riley). Walt is taken to a bedroom by Rachael and fellatio turns into biting his bits off… Kevin walks in on this but downstairs no one believes him until she reappears still fanged and spattered with blood. Luckily Nick grabs a sword and manages to behead her. We discover that it was the sword that killed Mr Black’s wife and one of his daughters because it is copper (leading to a scene with fake chains that are copper not gold and a fourth wall break that has on-screen subtitles to Bethany’s sign language that Kevin and AJ see).

blood at mouth

The other lore we get is that Mr Black is a feeder and his daughters are vampires who need melanin that they get by eating the flesh of black men, but they like to play with their food. The hunt through the house is too short and could have had much more done with it. Indeed the film is just over 1-hour and, whilst not outstaying its welcome (especially as part of the runtime is a blooper reel), in this case it desperately needed more time dedicated to the vampires hunting them and consequential tension that could have been built. This goes doubly so as the actors managed to make AJ and Kevin enjoyable characters, if morally and personality-wise they were also flawed. This really had potential, I think they squandered it and so hold this at 4 out of 10.

The imdb page is here.