Coconut Pete who is an old "rock star" owns this island resort where there's a non-stop party going on. But suddenly everything changes when people starts turning up dead on the island and no one knows who the killer is and everyone starts suspecting each other.
If you've read reviews on Club Dread before you've probably noticed that different people have different ideas about the movie. That's more or less the case with all movies but while this one have gotten high praise by some it has also been totally trashed by many others.
And it's understandable, it's so not for everyone and I guess either you'll hate it, love it or just like me, be somewhat netural to it even though I think hate it or love it will apply to most people.
 
I thought it was ok considering the somewhat high entertainment value but I can't say it's a really good movie, it's actually a pretty dumb movie.
I really liked Broken Lizard's Super Troopers and was hoping for Club Dread to feature the same kind of humour and hilarious stuff which it doesn't really manage to do. It has some fun stuff in it of course but also a whole bunch of lame stuff, and if you can sit through that, well that's totally up to you to figure out.
There are all these characters, some that arrives on the island when the movie starts and some that are working on the island in Coconut Pete's crew. Some characters are ok and has their funny moments while some characters are just lame and are just embarrasing to watch.
You get some horror/slasher elements, some breasts, a lot of girls, some blood and all that but remember that it's first and most a comedy we're talking about.
I can't really recommended Club Dread since I'm not a big fan of it myself and like I said before, it's a matter of what kinda taste you have, you might like it, you might hate it.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Broken Lizard's Club Dread
MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Jay Chandrasekhar
WRITING CREDITS: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan
GENRE: Comedy, Horror
CAST: Elena Lyons, Nat Faxon, Brittany Daniel
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 119 min
RATING: 5/10
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