31 Days of Horror: Dead & Breakfast

Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 5, 2008

Dead & Breakfast (2004)

Synopsis: On their way to a wedding, when a group of friends pull over for the night they get mixed up in a bloody mess of supernatural possession, horror, and singing zombies.

Killer Scene: A toss up between a zombie massacre involving Ever Carradine and a homemade shotgun or a group of Zombies who pull a Thriller and dance to the mean tune of “We’re Comin’ To Kill Ya.”  A sample lyric?  “I like hemoglobin in my mouth, your frontal lobe until I spit it out!”

KILLSHEET

Violence: While obviously packing in a lot of laughs, that in no way precludes gallons upon gallons of blood.  People are scalped, stabbed, shot, beheaded, bit, consumed, and just generally bleed.  A lot.  The violence, while at times cartoony, is none the less very present and very red.

Sex: The girls are cute, but they keep their clothes on.  The movie is a lot of fun though, so you barely notice the lack of young skin everywhere.

Scares: Unless you’re scared of massive amounts of blood and possessed corpses with an incredible sense of rhythm and a hunger for flesh, there isn’t much in the way of pure scares.  Laughs, sure.  Blood, yes.  Scares, not really.

Final Thoughts: For a bloody good time full of laughs, gore, and a really sweet ass soundtrack from Zacharia and the Los Lobos Riders, you can’t go wrong with the campy, silly, fun splatterfest that is Dead & Breakfast.

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