Mad Dog Movie Reviews

Dead and Breakfast

(2 Mad Dogs)

Dead and Breakfast (2004)
Directed by: Matthew Leutwyler (The Space Between us?)
Starring: Ever Carradine (Bubble Boy), Bianca Lawson (Big Monster on Campus), Erik Palladino (Short Attention Span Theater) and Oz Perkins (Psycho II)

When I read the box and it said that it was “America’s Answer to Shaun of the Dead” I knew I had to rent it. Yes I said rent, a brother can’t buy everything!
Unfortunately it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, not that it was all bad.

Story: Not original in any way as it is about a bunch of kids forced to stay in a strange town and proceed to be attacked by zombies. Though it does give it a nice setup and it is a little different take on that theme which helps it out. Unfortunately the writers seemed to have no way of getting the story to work without using David Carrdine’s wacky spirituality as a way of making zombies.

Characters: not a likable guy in the bunch, let’s just hope that no guy survives by the end of the movie.

Humor: At the beginning there was none, I mean there was supposed to be because people were drunk and acting “stupid” but it was all so forced that it just irked me. Thankfully the rough start was soon forgotten as the movie became downright ridiculous by the end. See the humor doesn’t have to be good but stupid and this nailed it.

Nudity: None! How do you make a B horror film without nudity?

Violence/Gore: Like the humor it took a while to get there but once it did my TV screen was red with blood and I was one happy camper.

Other: To go from scene to scene the director used drawings from the last scene and then of the next scene all while a cowboy singer explains what’s going on. Pretty cool stuff even if the music became a bit cumbersome by the end.

Final Verdict: Good gore, good humor but no titties knock it back a bit so for Dead and Breakfast I give it a 2/5 Mad Dogs.