Club Dread (2004)

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Directed by
Jay Chandrasekhar

Written by
Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan

Cast
Elena Lyons, Dan Montgomery Jr., Tanja Reichert, Nat Faxon, Michael Weaver [more]

Club Dread Reviews

Written by the five-member Broken Lizard comedy group, which threw the frenetic "Super Troopers" at us two years ago, "Club Dread" is pure dumb fun — horror slapstick that rudely parodies both the arterial violence of slasher films and the topless hedonism of the spring-break ritual. [read review]  --Jack Mathews (New York Daily News) Passable stuff has the Broken Lizard guys turning in likeable enough performances and there's a few alright laughs here; but it's just not consistently funny and most of the humour relies on weak sex jokes. ... If you're a fan of the Broken Lizard guys, then chances are you'll enjoy this; otherwise this is a passable waste of time. [read review]  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com) “Club Dread” presents a nice new locale for the comedy troupe to work with, along with an interesting stab at a tricky mixture of genres: gruesome horror and comedy. But once again, the Lizard prove themselves incapable of being funny, and “Club Dread” features even fewer laughs and general good times than “Super Troopers.” [read review] D --Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com) If you enjoy gross humor -- elevated by an occasional witty line -- and looking at babes, and don't mind a little blood and gore, do I have a date movie for you. The coup de grace offers a close-up of the top half of a disemboweled body reaching out -- like the hand from the grave in "Carrie'' -- to claim another victim. [read review] --Ruthe Stein (San Francisco Chronicle) Have you ever watched a horror movie where you’re begging for the deranged serial killer to make quick work of his or her aggravating victims? Club Dread is that type of film. This heinous horror spoof springs from the minds of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, a team so terrible they wouldn’t know funny if a monkey infested with a hilarity virus nicknamed “Sharp Wit” bit them on the leg. [read review]  --Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com) Totally forgettable but still entertaining horror- comedy that manages to keep some seriousness. This is not one of those movies that crack stupid and obvious tongue-in-the-cheek jokes. They are pretty crude and silly but it's still not as bad as Scary Movie humour. [read review]  --AnthroFred (SlasherPool) Club Dread, is a peculiarly entertaining item notable for somehow creating a genre that, to my knowledge, has never been done before. It is not a self-referential satire like the Scream trilogy, nor is it a spoofy send-up of horror movies like the Scary Movie trilogy, but something that places both in between and far to the left field. [read review]  --Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider) Mr. Chandrasekhar's direction is casual to the point of carelessness, but he does give the movie a friendly, convivial atmosphere that contradicts and sometimes overcomes its frequently cruel humor. In short, this is another film that looks as if it was more fun to make than it is to sit through. [read review] --Dave Kehr (The New York Times) And while it all goes on a little too long, there are enough bits of goofy inspiration, like a human game of Pac-Man, complete with sound effects and a finale that takes the old monster-who-never-dies scenario to new, ridiculous lengths, to break up the repetition. [read review] --Michael Rechtshaffen (Hollywod Reporter) The Broken Lizard group seem very restrained in their parts and never seem to get any momentum behind their performances leaving the film a disjointed effort. I had wanted to like this film but there was so little to like in it that I decided to restrainmy review and simply state that this film is absolutely dreadful and should be avoided at all costs. [read review]  --Gareth Von Kallenbach (Movie-Vault.com) One thing I will give this movie is that its final twenty minutes are actually its most interesting, with confrontations and mysteries unraveled. The film's final play on the "typical horror movie ending" is also quite humorous and perfectly over-done. [read review] 5/10 --'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com) A disappointing comedy and horror spoof. The funny moments are few and far apart, so we're really just left with an incredibly cliched slasher flick. It does manage to have hot chicks, and decent gore and blood, but that's about it. Not recommended. [read review] 5/10 --FrighT MasteR (UHM) Do I recommend this movie or not? I am at a loss to say. It is what it is. Criticism is irrelevant. Why are you even reading a review of "Club Dread"? You've seen the TV ads and you already know (a) you won't miss it or (b) not in a million years. [read review]  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) I have no major objection to the film, other than that it's not as funny as it feels like it ought to be. It made me laugh often, and occasionally very hard, and the scenes that focus heavily on the serial-killer angle pass by agreeably. [read review] -- (eFilmCritic.com) The movie was hit-and-miss, but the humor hit enough to make it one of the funniest dumb movies in years. "Club Dread" cuts back a little on the humor, and actually grounds itself solidly in the genre. [read review]  --Lyle Henretty (Bloody-Disgusting.com) The only real problem is that the film feels a bit schizophrenic at times. Is it a comedy? Or are they really trying to make a go at a horror film? Funny enough, it actually works as both. [read review]  --Kevin Carr (FilmThreat.com) Aiming for a medley of humor and horror, the Lizard boys achieve neither, spinning a loud, boorish, cheesy tale about a machete madman slicing up the randy staff at a tropical resort. [read review]  --David Germain (San Francisco Examiner) While no, this isn't a perfect film and some of the jokes were misses, the ones that hit far outweighed the ones that didn't and I look forward to seeing Club Dread again. [read review] 7.5/10 -- (CHUD.com) "Club Dread" is a bumptious splatter farce that manages to improve from awful to moderately engaging as its cast is winnowed down to the five guys themselves. [read review]  -- (Boston Globe) Unencumbered by logic or narrative cohesion, the freewheeling lunacy of "Club Dread" sits squarely in the guilty pleasure zone. [read review]  --Megan Lehmann (New York Post) A poor sophomore effort that tries to combine horror and comedy about as well as ‘Gili’ combined Ben and Jennifer. [read review]  --Derek May (MovieWeb) Broken Lizard's Club Dread is more like Club Dread-ful--nothing new, and poorly executed. [read review]  --Anne Rieman (Hollywood.com) Absolutely dreadful and should be avoided at all costs. [read review] D --Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)

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