Oh my!This weekend, horror-comedy Cocaine Bear comes roaring into theaters, and it just might be the camp masterpiece we’ve been waiting for since….
well, since M3GAN slayed the dolls back in January.Unlike that killer AI glam-bot, Cocaine Bear is actually based on a true story, believe it or not.
Unsurprisingly, creative liberties were taken.M3GAN’s an icon, she’s a legend, and she is the moment—now come on now!As the tale goes, in 1985, a disgraced former narcotics officer and convicted drug smuggler by the name of Andrew C.
Thonrton II was flying over Georgia when he dropped a duffel bag of cocaine out of the plane. Apparently, he jumped out to retrieve it but, due to a faulty parachute, died upon landing.Three months later, a large American black bear was found dead in northern Georgia next to a pile of 40 opened plastic containers of cocaine.