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Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

D_Burke "Dead & Breakfast" succeeds in being a horror comedy that is neither scary nor funny. The pacing of the film is terrible, the plot is confusing, the acting is third-rate, and every element of the movie feels like a retread that wants to pass itself off as original. In fact, the movie's tag line "It's Like A Bad Horror Movie . . . Only Worse" could not be truer.The premise of the film is so unoriginal, that you can tell it was mercilessly ripped from other movies ranging from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) to "Murder By Death" (1977). These six young adults, three guys and three gorgeous women, are traveling in an RV to a friend's wedding. They get lost in a small town along the way, and decide to stay the night in a local run-down bed & breakfast. The B&B is run by a strange Buddhist named Mr. Wise (David Carradine, whose niece, Ever Carradine, is actually one of the three travelers). There is also an abrasive chef with a bad French accent (Diedrich Bader, "The Drew Carey Show").On their very first night, they find both B&B inhabitants dead. Mr. Wise is dead of an apparent heart attack, and the French chef is found brutally murdered in the kitchen. There is a scene that is played out too long when one of the guys, in the kitchen for a midnight snack, encounters the dead chef, and keeps slipping on his blood on the floor. It's a scene that tries too hard for laughs when you're really not sure if you're supposed to laugh.What follows is a very confusing and contrived story about how a small box, sealed only with a strip of paper, turns whomever opens it into some kind of zombie-like creature. Confused? Imagine how you would feel if you were watching it.The exposition that is supposed to clear up confusion about the story either is so poorly set up that it leaves you bored, or feels ripped off from other movies. There's also a country singer, Randall Keith Randall (Zach Selwyn), who pops up and sings dumb songs about what the audience has already seen. This character is reminiscent of Nat "King" Cole and Stubby Kaye in "Cat Ballou" (1965), except his presence in the film feels forced. Plus, if he sang a coherent song about the back story behind the box that turned people into zombie-like creatures, his character would serve a useful purpose. Instead, his lyrics are not funny, and state the obvious by using lines like "now there's all this crazy sh*t that's going down here" (an actual line, by the way)."Dead & Breakfast" lacks so much originality that it's almost like a parody of a movie that parodies horror movies. The horror elements, which should be the film's saving grace, are not scary at all. Plus, you actually have to care about the characters in some way to fear for their safety. Instead, the main six characters are all jerks, and you don't care about their fate.The film's title is supposed to be a clever riff on the term bed & breakfast. Instead, the first word describes the film's pacing, and the last word describes what you want to throw at the screen an hour into watching it.

preppy-3 A bunch of the usual brainless 20 somethings are driving to a wedding. They consist of the nerd (Oz Perkins), the oversexed Italian stud (Erik Palladino), the sweet lovable naive brunette (Gina Philips), the foul-mouthed black girl (Bianca Lawson) and two more than have no personalities whatsoever (Jeremy Sisto, Ever Carradine). They get lost and have to spend the night in a little town called Lovelock. Things get strange and it ends up with most of the town being possessed by an evil demon and going after the ones who aren't.Strange doesn't begin to cover this one. It starts as a conventional slasher horror film with large doses of humor and turns into a huge gore fest with some real black (but funny) humor. The body parts and blood go flying in this one--I saw the cut R rated version and was impressed at how much violence even that got by with. The story doesn't make much sense but you'll be too entertained to really care. Also the film's off the wall and black humor somehow fits in with it. Add in a country western singer with some very funny songs acting as a Greek chorus to the movie and cameos by David Carradine and Portia de Rossi and you have a very strange and VERY gory bun fun flick. This was (pretty obviously) made on a low budget but you can see that everybody went out of their way to make this work. An 8.

tropicalwindxst Characters - 5/30 I honestly don't remember most of the characters or their traits. They pretty boring and/ or cliché. I remember liking Portia de Rossi, though.Story - 10/30 It had it's moments. The music scene was fantastic. There was some humor. Overall, though, not a great plot line.Atmosphere - 8/15 It had an okay feel to it. The night scenes were done well, and the inn was effective.Effectiveness - 5/15 It's hard not to compare this to the other zombie comedies, and this one is definitely the least effective of them all.Excitement - 2/10 I was very bored with this movie. I tried to like it, but found myself drifting.

Claudio Carvalho While heading to Galveston in a RV for the wedding of a friend, the driver Johnny (Oz Perkins) gets lost and arrive in the small town of Lovelock and his friends Kate (Bianca Lawson), Sara (Ever Carradine), Melody (Gina Phillips), Christian (Jeremy Sisto) and David (Erik Palladino) decide to spend the night in the Bed and Breakfast owned by Mr. Robert Wise (David Carradine). David has an argument with the chef of the inn, Henri (Diedrich Bader), and when the chef is found dead and Mr. Wise has a heart attack in the middle of the night, the local Sheriff (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) suspects of the group and asks his assistant Enus (Mark Kelly) to take the key of their trailer and stay in Lovelock during the investigation. Then the Sheriff arrests a drifter (Brent David Fraser) that becomes his prime suspect. When the clumsy Johnny accidentally breaks a box of Mr. Wise, he releases the fiend Kuman Thong and the evil spirit possesses the locals transforming them into zombies.Matthew Leutwyler certainly wrote and directed "Dead & Breakfast" with the intention of making a cult-movie. Unfortunately his target is never reached, but this gore comedy is funny and a worthwhile entertainment. There are good lines and most of the characters are likable, and one of the best moments if the phone call of the maid of honor Kate to the bride Lisa, with a hilarious dialog. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Adivinhe Quem Vem Para Morrer" ("Guess Who is Coming to Die?")