Written by Old Bluffer 25th Nov 2007

Beau Brower is a rough and tumble Survivalist Hermit archetype. If he lived in a normal community he'd be cruising around on a Harley, and running afoul of the law. Presumably he knows this, which is why he lives a mostly solitary existence in Barrow, driving a fearsome snow plough instead.

Now Beau doesn't do a huge amount when the vampires first invade, being content to let the Sheriff, Eben, take charge instead. Despite this though, he remains brashly confident in his abilities to deal with the monsters. This seems like wishful thinking to the audience, especially as the first time he is tested (against a little girl vampire no less) he doesn't impress with his combat abilities.

All this changes though, in truly spectacular fashion once Eben is trapped and faces certain death.

It is now that Beau decides the time has come to fight back. He jumps into his snow plough. I say snow plough, but living as I do in England this is rather more of a behemoth plough than I've ever seen. It actually looks more like an entry in the super-super-heavyweight category of Robot Wars, armed as it is with a gigantic chainsaw.

It certainly ploughs through the vampires with ease though, scattering the large pack about to eat Eben, giving the sheriff the opporunity to escape. The vampires bay in fury at Beau, and start to chase him like dogs after a postal van. This suits Beau just fine, and he is soon killing masses of the monsters, by crushing them with his truck or punching them onto the chainsaw (with satisfyingly gory results).

Make no mistake, with one bravado rush with his snow plough, Beau has easily despatched more vampires than the rest of the town put together. This is just an aperitif for him though, and as he is forced on foot he makes his last stand in a hotel, atop some dynamite and armed with flares. The vampires attack and he jeers at them, "You ain't gonna eat me!"

He then drops the flares and the resulting explosion blows him out into the ice covered street, as well as taking out a load more vampires. Beau still isn't dead though, which allows Marlow to contemptuously crush his skull under the heel of his boot.