So much average

Best movie ever!

A Major Disappointment

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Hilarious and gory, two things I look for in a movie! If you love Evil Dead, or even Evil Dead The Musical THIS IS FOR YOU. Friends driving to a wedding stop in a middle of nowhere town for the night. When the owner of the bed and breakfast dies suddenly all hell breaks loose, no pun intended. Axes, chainsaws and homemade pipe guns are the weapons of choice for the gang who tries to defend themselves against the newly became zombie town. Fun and entertaining Dead and Breakfast fits the needs for horror fans by giving them something new but very familiar all at the same time.Zombies, blood,guts, and a dance sequence you cannot go wrong!

Dead and Breakfast doesn't pretend to be anything else than what it is, but it's good at what it does. There have been other horror comedies, to be sure, and some others that include songs and (yes) dances. This might not attract the cult crowds of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it's not really asking too. Then again as a straight-to-DVD effort (it also played festivals as well in 2004) it has to do what it can. But on such a low budget (under a million) it really accomplishes a lot. Chiefly this comes from the script, which is wise in the ways of being silly horror fun, with lots of blood (gallons and gallons) and severed limbs (lots of those too), and from the actors who all are having lots of fun but are not at all bad actors really. To be sure, some may just be going in for the (limited) paycheck, but considering the budget it had to be love for the project. It's culty goodness, if not greatness.The plot concerns a group of young 20-somethings on their way to a friend's wedding (a very obnoxious friend, pay it no mind since she's only in one scene), and they stop off at a bed and breakfast when it's decided that a real bed is needed instead of the usual RV bed (didn't these guys learn from From Dusk Till Dawn?) They stop off and that night two disturbing things happen: a guy who is staying/works at the hotel drops dead from a heart attack (David Carradine) and someone is found brutally slashed and gutted in the kitchen - the reveal of which is a classic comic moment of surprise. The comes to investigate, and thinks he has a suspect with the Sheriff (Jeffrey Dean Morgan in a fun early role), and locked in custody. As luck wouldn't have it it turns out there is an un-dead curse of some sort that has people coming back to life and killing the living and they can be killed only by a bullet to the brain or beheading.Typical zombies? Not quite really, not when their souls are still sort of kicking around, and they can also talk and dance and sing and things (there's even a scene that cheerfully rips off Thriller, or just country line-dancing, as the deadies are outside of the main dead/breakfast house and do it like it's 1983). Another twist in the film is that there is a kind of singing cowboy narrator who chimes in from time to time to explain things, whether they necessarily need explaining or not, and every song at least inspires a chuckle if not outright laughter. And while not every kill is super sophisticated - you can clearly see where the blood is shooting out from the hose in a guy's split-open head in one scene - it has that same delightful bloodlust, where action and suspense mixes with humor in the vein (pun intended) as Dead-Alive.Featuring some solid performances from Jeremy Sisto (mostly with him as a severed head), Ever Carradine (David's daughter), and Brent David Fraser as the "Drifter" with all of the answers, this is a little movie worth checking out.

A group of young adults decides to stay in a bed and breakfast for the night, but by morning two people are dead. Now witnesses and possibly suspects, the sheriff keeps them in town... but that's not the best idea, since there's about to be an outbreak of zombies, and not many will survive the next few days.Maybe you stumbled on this film because you like horror comedies. And if you did, that was a good idea. It's funny and has gore that may remind you of such low budget classics as the early works of Peter Jackson ("Bad Taste" and "Dead Alive"). Nice blood, decapitated heads, a chainsaw and a homemade shotgun.Maybe you stumbled on this because of the cameos from Diedrich Bader and David Carradine, or the appearance of horror regular Jeremy Sisto. Bader and Carradine are both great, though their parts are small. Sisto is also his typical self, which means you'll probably enjoy him. He's not as prominent as he is in other films (such as "May"), but he does not disappoint.The reason you should have watched this film, but you probably didn't, is for Zach Selwyn (also known as simply Zachariah). He plays Randall Keith Randall, the musical gas station attendant. His songs are great, particularly one where he mixes rap and country, and has zombies dancing the "Thriller" dance. (Outside of this film, he is marginally known for his songs "CILF" and "TSA Gangstaz"... YouTube them.) The film would have been great without him, but he brought the enjoyment over the top.I had known of this film's existence for years, but never had it forced on me until now... I'm glad it was. The picture's a little grainy and the budget is clearly nothing special, but if you're the type of horror fan who can look past that... you'll love it. The only problem is that Billy Burke (Charlie Swan from "Twilight") dropped out and doesn't appear... but you wouldn't notice.

"Indie Comedy Campy Horror" is one adjective too much for any movie to be good. This is an annoying movie that tries far too hard to cash in on being "indie & ironic".The following "bad movie sins" were committed by this stupid and trite film:1) Intelligent zombies. I don't care how often the mysterious drifter says "They're not zombies", this movie uses walking corpses that want to kill and eat victims and then resurrect them into the shambling horde. They're zombies, and the writer should quit pretending otherwise. And zombies that crack jokes, do song and dance numbers, and babble and hackle the survivors are not scary or funny... they're just annoying and can be replaced by any other number badly scripted monsters/psychos.2) Song narration First off, song narration is a difficult cinematic element to use when done well. This is once again just annoying. The wandering Indie- country minstrel plays badly, has annoying lyrics, and adds nothing but more crude jokes that do absolutely nothing but fill time. And in fact, the entire character and concept makes me think of a 6th grader that writes a 2 page paper by increasing font size seven times and adjusting the font constantly.3) Stereotypes, not characters. The people in charge of this movie must have thought that "campy" means that there are no actually believable characters. "Shallow sorority sister", "Cute shy girl", "Arrogant jock", "Bitter nerd", "Hick", and "Fat stupid violent hick" are the full and complete concepts of most of the people you will meet in this movie. And you will not care one bit about what happens to any of them, which makes it boring.I don't blame the actors for cheesy dialog and bad story. Most of these guys have gone on to much much better stuff. But I do blame the writers for stitching together so many elements that did not work instead of trying to work on a few elements that might have been good.