Broken Lizard’s Club Dread

Cast:

Bill Paxton as Coconut Pete

Elena Lyons as Stacy

Dan Montgomery Jr. as Rolo

Tanja Reichert as Kellie

Nat Faxon as Manny

Michael Weaver as Roy

Kevin Heffernan as Lars

Michael Yurchak as Burke

Jordan Ladd as Penelope

Brittany Daniel as Jenny

Richard Perello as Cliff

Steve Lemme as Juan

Jay Chandrasekhar as Putman

Paul Soter as Dave

Erik Stolhanske as Sam

Lindsay Price as Yu

Julio Bekhor as Carlos

Greg Cipes as Trevor

M.C. Gainey as Hank

Ryan Faulkner as Marcel

Veronica Segura as Zoe

Samm Levine as Dirk

Jessica Moreno as Fiona

Critique:

Pina Colada-burg. That about sums up Club Dread. If you think that title to a rip-off of the Jimmy Buffet song Margarittaville is funny, then you are ready for Club Dread, if not… you are probably in for a long movie.

Club Dread is almost a spoof of horror movies, while at the same time it is trying very hard to be a horror movie. There is plenty of classic horror moments and the movie is not afraid to let the blood fly. However, it is constantly asking the viewer not to take it seriously. This schizophrenia of goals might make a good excuse for a serial killer, but it makes for a very disjointed movie experience.

Bill Paxton plays Coconut Pete, a poor-mans Jimmy Buffet, who has turned a small island into a resort for horny college students in need of a weekend of drunken fun. The resort staff consists of a staple of horror movie victims just waiting for the machete to fall. Rounding out the island population are a small army of scantily clad party ants waiting to march to the next location to consume intoxicants while obliviously waiting for the action to happen around them.

As a comedy, Club Dread constantly falls flat. The humor misses its mark much more often than it hits, although there are some truly amusing moments. Even though there is some good suspense, as a horror movie it is just too silly. The acting is often stiff but that could be due to the inane dialog, while the action oscillates from classic horror to slap stick.

Who should see this movie? Fans of early 1980’s horror movies. If you do not know the movies being spoofed then you will be even more lost. There is a gratuitous amount of nudity that serves no purpose in progressing the story, but it is nice to look at. If you want a total mental escape then this might be the movie you are looking for. Everyone else should avoid it.

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