club dread
Delayed reaction arguments aside, Club Dread does — when all is said and done — mirror the stalk-and-slash efforts of yesteryear down to the most minute details, and the supernaturally-charged killer of Club Dread is on-target for the genre even if the film itself does come a few decades too late. [1]
Club Dread (also known as Broken Lizard’s Club Dread) is a 2004 comedy /horror film, written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers. [2]
View company contact information for Club Dread on IMDbPro. [3]
Following up their breakthrough film, 2001’s Super Troopers, the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, comprised of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske, took aim at the horror genre and delivered Club Dread. [...] As with Super Troopers and the first Broken Lizard film Puddle Cruiser, Chandrasekhar directs. [...] Occupying a strange, near superfluous celluloid limbo somewhere between Club Paradise (1986) and Friday the 13th (1980), Broken Lizard’s Club Dread does offer some moments of inspired insanity despite the filmmakers’ failure to even out the script and pacing problems that plagued the group’s breakthrough comedy Super Troopers. [...] Starring the five members of the troupe along with Bill Paxton, the film is set at an anything-goes tropical resort for swingers. [1]
At first viewing of this comedy by Jay Chandrasekhar I dismissed it as a completely cheesy and off-the-wall spoof movie we have all seen many times already, and I was right! [3]
From the guys who brought you SUPER TROOPERS…Broken Lizard is back, surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton), a rock star has-been…. [4]
Club Dread has received mixed reviews, scoring 45% on review aggregator site Metacritic based on 28 critics reviews, and 31% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 95 reviews. [2]
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide [1]
Dead bodies begin to turn up, and the staff try to solve the murder mystery without any of the guests learning of the murders. [...] In the movie, Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton) is a has-been rock star who runs a non-stop party on his private island. [2]
When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete’s Coconut Beach Resort — a hedonistic island paradise for swingers — it’s up to the club’s staff to stop the violence… or at least hide it! [3]
The staff also have to try to avoid becoming the next victim, as the killer can only be one of them. [2]
Sources:
[1] Club Dread 2004: Movie and film review from Answers.com
[2] Club Dread - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Club Dread (2004)
[4] Broken Lizard’s Club Dread Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten …