Ridiculous Silliness
Added 10/3/2009
Review title says it all. Still, if you are in the mood for that kind of thing, it moves really fast and does provide a chuckle. A definite attempt to take on Evil Dead II, but much more contrived to be amusing. All in all, on a rainy cold weekend afternoon with nothing on TV, it's a diversion.
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Horrible piece of garbage
Added 8/18/2009
Words can not explain how horrible this movie is! If you have seen the commercial and are like me and like really crazy gory movies your like wow this movie looks insane. WRONG!!! it has a few gory parts and you see most of them on the previews. If you go on here and read the reviews and the thought goes through your head, I'm not going to listen to these people because they are just hatin on it because it's a b movie, kick that thought out of your head fast because that's what I thought and boy was I wrong. This has got to be the worst b horror movie i've ever seen. It's one of those movies you keep watching and keep thinking the whole time why am I watching this piece of crap. Heed my warning it's horrible. DON'T BUY!!!! it's a waste of money.
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heed the warning on the (inside) label...
Added 3/19/2009
The tag line on the inside cover of the movie (left off the lenticular slip cover) says: "Dead & Breakfast. It's Like a Bad Movie...Only Worse!" They get a second star if only for truth in advertising.
The cover also says "The best independent horror movie of the year" and "...The U.S. answer to Shaun of the Dead". Well, Shaun of the Dead was a 2004 movie and this movie doesn't come anywhere near that level.
The jokes are flat, often slapstick, but also very often difficult to notice as jokes at all. The acting is bad (fairly normal for a horror movie) and the plot is basic if not bad. There are a bunch of scenes in the movie which make no sense whatsoever...the kind of stuff that should've been left on the cutting room floor. If that was suppose to parody horror movies, they missed the mark. The best thing about this movie is the gore which is so-so at best.
Another reviewer said that the hope that this movie will get better makes it worse to experience...that is almost exactly how i felt. Except by a third of the way through it was clear to me that it wasn't going to get better. I watched the rest out of morbid curiosity. I've seen a number of really bad horror movies. I even enjoy some of them. This was boring, plain and simple. Barely watchable and simply not funny at all.
There may be people who like this movie...there is a very country feeling to it. It may appeal to country music fans and people who like Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy kind've humor (frankly I'm surprised they didn't show up as cameos in the movie). The rest of the world should steer clear of this. If you want more of Shaun of the Dead....this is nothing like it! Not even Mystery Science Theater good.
It was good to see David Carradine again. A star for him, the best actor in the movie.
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just my type of "B" movie
Added 3/5/2009
I gave this movie 4 stars cause I like low budget films with lots of stupid gory parts and outlandish story lines and this one delivers in full with Diedrich Bader and David Carradine making eaqualy lame and funny short cammies not for the mainstream pop tv movie watchers but if your a real "B"movie fan like me you can feel good about loosin ten bucks on this
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Empty spoof, but still a little entertaining
Added 10/27/2008
Dead and Breakfast is one of those little horror spoof flicks that goes to great lengths to address itself as such. It works to a degree, but for the most part the film just comes up kind of empty, and close to being a self-parody of itself. The story revolves around a group of friends on the way to a wedding, and get waylaid at the bed and breakfast of a small town. Soon enough, a murder occurs where they're staying, and before you know it, an ancient evil gets awakened that turns the townsfolk into mindless zombies (though not the flesh-eating kind mind you). Given the low-budget and indie nature, there's some nice gore effects to be found, and an ensemble cast that includes Ever Carradine, David Carradine, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jeremy Sisto, Erik Palladino (who is clearly having fun here), Bianca Lawson, Gina Philips, Portia de Rossi, Oz "son of Anthony" Perkins, Diedrich Bader, Vincent Ventresca, and Zach Selwyn of G4's Attack of the Show as his country singing/rapping self. All in all, Dead and Breakfast could have been better to be sure, but it is an enjoyable horror spoof on its own merits, and it's something you'll more than likely get a kick out of.
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Do you really find it this hard to find work?
Added 11/1/2009
Portia de Rossi, Jeremy Sisto and Erik Palladino need to sit down with their agents and have a chat about why they would get them involved with this pathetic Fearfest entry. I don't think I've ever seen a Fearfest production that has cut the muster or mustard or red gooey gore. Writer/director Matthew Leutwyler should be stopped at all cost. Seriously, this is junk and not worth anyone's time. To mention Shaun of the Dead in the same breath is absurd. Watch the 2003 Austrailian entry Undead or 1987's mistakenly panned Blood Diner instead of this one and half star trash. Those are excellent examples of how to mix camp humor with gore. One star ratings are reserved for junk that's so bad it's good and this ain't that.
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One of the Funniest Movies I've Ever Seen
Added 8/28/2007
When six people on their way to a wedding in Galveston stop over night in the small town of Lovelock, Texas, they find themselves in the middle of a zombie uprising. Technically, they are not zombies, but you still have to chop their heads off. Hilarity ensues.
The main character are each richly drawn and beautifully acted. The town is populated by the sort of persons you might actually encounter in rural Texas, all lovingly parodied. The country rap musical score is perfect. The zombies even provide their own tunes after the local band is possessed.
Anybody who does not burst out laughing when the zombies, to their own musical accompaniment, do a line dance prior to assaulting the boarding house must have no sense of humor.
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Should be zero stars.
Added 4/16/2007
This movie is so terrible it's hard to explain. I saw this when it first came out, my brother rented it because it said Shaun of the Dead on the cover. My brother is fooled easily, that would have been the red flag that would have made me NOT rent this crap. I remember watching it and thinking, when does this get funny, when will I like a character, when will it get even a couple miles in range of being scary? This "movie", full of it's lame overdone plot and crap actors reciting crap lines is just another movie that should be forgotten by everyone. Sadly, "horror" fans will cling to this trash because the classics just aren't good enough. Don't rent this, don't buy this, don't even look at the cover! Don't make me regret wasting my time writing about this turd of a film. I wish I was a billionaire so I could buy every copy and burn them all!
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