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Review: A
strange and campy zombie film, Dead and Breakfast combines horror, humor
and camp all into one semi-low budget film that should become a cult
classic. With such characters as Mullet Man, Skanky Chick, Randall Keith
Randall and The Chick With the Foaming Mouth and the Hammer In Her Head,
could it be anything else but?
The cast is
comprised of a few famous faces like David Carradine and Portia De
Rossi, but most made up of people you know if you think about it for a
minute. Ever Carradine, who was Jay's mother in
Jay and Silent Bob
Strike Back, Erik Palladino, a Doctor on ER for three years, Vincent
Ventresca, Fun Bobby from Friends, and Diedrich Bader from the Drew
Carrey Show to name a few. Everybody plays their roles with the perfect
amount of cheese. Especially the more stereotypical redneck characters.
When your character is named Mullet Man, do you think it's possible to
over do it? I didn't think so.
The music
deserves its own mention here. Done in the style of There's Something
About Mary, Randall Keith Randall croons the plot of the movie in
cutscenes throughout. Starting with straightforward sound country
ballads that evolve into rap infused line dancing numbers, really helps
to set the tone. Check out this site-
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/zachariahlr and preview “We're Comin' To
Kill Ya” for an example.
Image and
Sound: To be honest, I was enjoying this move far too much to really
notice the picture and sound, although the sound effects were pretty
gruesome and the blood was the right color red.
Special
Features: A trailer, deleted scenes, a blooper reel, some addional cut
music interludes, poster and still gallery and 2 different commentaries
round out this disk.
Final
Notes: Fun as hell, almost as strange and stylistic as Evil Dead, worth
a rent for the music interludes alone. For a B-Horror movie I'll give it
4 out of 5 stars.
Mitch
Best Lines:
Randall
Keith Randall: [chorus of song in closing credits] Well, this used to be
such a quiet little town / We never had too much trouble around here /
Until that spirit was released / And we were haunted by the deceased /
And now there's all this crazy shit that's going down here.
Sara: What
are they doing?
David:
They're dancing!
The
Sheriff: Well! Ain't you about as handy as a pocket on a shirt.
David: Had
I known it was going to feel this good to bash your brains in I would
have done it a long time ago.
Lisa
Belmont: Well, you mind telling me what in the Sam Hill is going on
around here?
The
Drifter: I don't think you would believe me if I told you.
Lisa
Belmont: Friend, after what I've seen tonight you could tell me an evil
spirit rose up from the dead and decided to posses the entire town and I
would believe you.
[the
Drifter and Melody look at each other; Lisa rolls her eyes]
Lisa
Belmont: Well, any of you all know how to stop it?
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