Dead & Breakfast (2005)

Please don't spend money on this.

Load of rubbish!!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Dead and Breakfast is not some George Romero High budget zombie movie. It is a small fun to watch movie. Now how many other movies can you name that have red neck zombies singing a mixture of blue grass and rap for the final song. This is something that you should go home and watch with a couple of friends and have a good time. If you expect something that will scare you your out of luck because this movie wont frighten you but instead it will make you laugh so hard your pants will cry (If you know what i mean) This is something most teenagers will enjoy and many adults. What you probably don"t know is that you may of seen many of these characters before in other films or TV shows but chances are you wont recognize them at first

I would give it 3 stars if I hadn't watched too many zombie movies. Despite the dross out there it only shines because of the unique musical aspect. It doesn't as a zombie movie. Have a care about what you will watch and you can find better. It IS worth seeing if you want a standard to judge things by. A bad standard admittedly but a standard nevertheless. Good sets but I feel like it was an advert for a terrible country band. It conforms to some faintly amusing stereotypes and there are some interesting use of weapons. The characterisation owes much to the 'Hammer' school of glossy hair and a wide mouth for screaming school of acting. You won't like them and so the musical interlude about their endeavors serves only to annoy, frustrate and occasionally judge others by their standard.

"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.

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.