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Club Dread (2004)

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 70

Comedy is too hit-or-miss is this slasher spoof.

Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 19

Comedy is too hit-or-miss is this slasher spoof.

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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. Starring the five members of the troupe along with Bill Paxton, the film is set at an anything-goes tropical resort for swingers. When a psychotic killer starts offing the guests with a razor sharp machete, it's up to the staff to hide the carnage, lest

R, 1 hr. 43 min.

Horror, Comedy

Directed By: Jay Chandrasekhar

In Theaters: Feb 27, 2004 Wide

On DVD: May 25, 2004

Box Office:$4.6M

Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Club Dread

All Critics (111) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (72) | DVD (23)

In these sensitive, politically correct times, I thought it was refreshing to see a comedy troupe that's perfectly willing to fill the screen with exposed flesh and buckets of blood, in the name of cheap but legitimate laughs.

March 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

The film still may be too bloody and crass for some, and it's by no means hilarious, but all things considered, Club Dread lives up to expectations, which were never really that high to begin with.

February 27, 2004 Comment

Sara Gebhardt

Washington Post

Top Critic

About as funny as malaria.

February 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Stunningly unfunny.

February 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Variety

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Joe Leydon

Variety

Top Critic

Club Dread is just stupid, period.

February 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Doesn't quite capture the devil-may-care feel of a sex comedy.

February 27, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

This slasher/comedy isn't funny or entertaining.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

The Broken Lizard quintet follows its quintessential cult-comedy classic "Super Troopers" with something like "Ten Little Indians" interpreted by five big imbeciles - a slasher parody three "Screams" and three "Scary Movies" too late.

September 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com

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Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

Even if it doesn't really succeed as a thriller or a comedy, the film isn't simply a hack-job either.

September 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

One of the better horror parodies, which if you ask me has been done to death.

June 17, 2005 Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony

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Bill Clark

FromTheBalcony Source: FromTheBalcony

I actually liked it better this second time around, but that's not saying a lot. [All-New Unrated Cut]

October 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

The film's creators use sexual humor as a stand-in when they run out of vacuous little sub-sketches.

September 16, 2004 Comment

Mark Collette

Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

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It's amazing the things you'll stop on when you're absent-mindedly surfing the TV. Why I watched more than 5 minutes of this I'll never know. A Jimmy Buffet type musician (Bill Paxton) owns an island resort. All kinds of partying takes place, but then people start dying at the hands of a maniac. Tried to be a horror

June 6, 2007

Cindy I

Super Reviewer

I really thought this was funny and a lot different than most comedies. It pretty much took the idea of Scooby Doo and Friday the 13th and made it into a fresh product. While it isn't as perfect at capturing priceless moments as Super Troopers, this still had the great characters and writing.

April 15, 2010

Conner Rainwater

Super Reviewer

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