It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Blistering performances.

Slasher parody with all the ingredients fans of the genre know and love..babes, boobs, blood, and blonds. Bill Paxton is a hilarious Jimmy Buffet wannabe, Coconut Pete, who has an island paradise which caters to partying college kids who adore him and his vulgar music(which was mostly popular in the 70s!). This island is like Cancun where the hot girls and handsome guys come to celebrate liberty away from the pressures of life(or to celebrate the fact that they can party on daddy's allowance)where they can drink, smoke grass, and have sex. But for Coconut Pete's staff on the island, the fun comes to a crashing halt when a serial killer, wielding a machete, begins to hunt them down one at a time, the end result not in their favor. The murders follow an "acid trip" song from a 70s Coconut Pete record and the staff attempting to stay alive begin to question each other. Kevin Heffernan is the new guy on the island, Lars, hired as a masseuse, with an uncanny ability to touch certain spots on the body providing orgasmic pleasure. His weight is often poked fun at and since he is new, the others figure he's the psychopath slicing and dicing. Brittany Daniel(more than reason enough to recommend this movie to anyone who can appreciate the athletic female form), often scantily clad for our benefit, is a fitness guru, Jenny, and Lars' love interest. Steve Lemme is Juan, a Spanish Lothario who has a way with the ladies. Jordan Ladd is very into Juan and seems to be one of those clinging obsessive stalker types..for our viewing pleasure, Ladd shows her tits, for quite a long time which is paradise enough for yours truly. The director of the film, Jay Chandrasekhar, is Putman, who looks like a Jamaiican yet carries a British accent..in my opinion, he has some of the best scenes in the movie. Lindsay Price, yet another babe, is in it far too short for my liking, another member of the staff(her name is Yu which is toyed with in the dialogue).I really can not complain here because the Broken Lizard team gave me exactly what I desire when watching a slasher film. They are able to lampoon the genre while, at the same time, include what we, the target audience, demand when we watch a slasher movie. The movie isn't subtle in it's comedy, and the cast play to the material. There's plenty of eye candy on display, and the filmmakers deliver enough ultra-violence to keep fans happy, I believe. CLUB DREAD also features humor on how a killer is able to sustain a lot of punishment and still come after our protagonists. The identity of the killer and his reasons for committing the crimes are also a loving jab at the often silly twists we often see in slasher movies. Also included is the campfire horror story involving "Machette Phil", not to mention, some funny sequences poking fun at both hiding places and attempted getaways(and the always easy target, splitting up when it's better to stay together).

I see a lot of Super Trooper fans that hate this movie. Personally I enjoyed this movie far more than Super Troopers. I don't understand why anyone would try to compare the two movies though. They are two totally different style movies. Kevin Heffernan as Lars & Brittany Daniel as Jenny were both hilarious together. I personally thought it quite hilarious that a spoof of slasher flicks was actually a better slasher flick than most serious slasher flicks while being hilarious at the same time. It seems to me that the reason most of the critical people don't like this movie is that they took it seriously. That is the problem.

The staff of Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort are dedicated to delivering sun, sea, and sex to a hedonistic crowd of fun-seeking part-goers, but when a serial killer begins to bump them off one-by-one, the partying stops and the panic begins.I'm a big fan of extremely hot women in teeny bikinis, and I always welcome a bit of senseless violence in my films; serve these ingredients up with generous helping of humour and I'm usually good to go. On this basis, Broken Lizard's Club Dread looked to be a surefire winner.Unfortunately, not only is the comedy in this film exceedingly puerile and poorly delivered, but most of the characters are irritating in the extreme, particularly Putman, the dread-locked Indian with the English accent (who couldn't die soon enough as far as I was concerned) and Bill Paxton's hippie singer Coconut Pete (who I may have found funny if I knew who the hell Jimmy Buffet was... but I doubt it!).Admittedly, the film's makers keep their promise of much quality female flesh and there is the odd genuinely creepy scene enlivened by a smattering of gore, but Club Dread's complete and utter lack of decent laughs ultimately negates all the good work done by the semi-naked babes and the machete wielding maniac.

Club Dread is a very interesting piece of work, not really too original, exciting, well done, action filled or intelligent... and honestly not even good. Basically it pivots around a bunch of people stuck on an island with a killer, giving it quite the "oh please not another movie like that" feeling. However, they are not just a handful of people on a deserted island, they are the staff of "Pleasure Island" and need to keep their cool while taking care of a load of tourists. The plot is by no means complicated but it stands out just enough and can be quite unpredictable sometimes. Just beware of a very common mistake! Don't give up after the first few minutes, it gets better and better all the way to the end!This movie needs you to fulfill three different criteria before you can truly enjoy its interesting properties to the fullest. I have listed them below, the first being the most important and so on. Number 1; you need to be able to laugh freely and comfortably at silly, odd and stupid things. Number 2; you need to make sure you are not disturbed by "almost well done gore" or attractive women not wearing a whole lot of clothes. Number 3; you need to be observant enough to notice details, and too tired (or possibly drunk) to be upset when these details don't match, instead you need the ability to laugh at it.With these things in mind, my punchline is; This movie is a total piece of crap! Characters, script, effects, dialog, actors and most other stuff too can't be called anything other than crap! However, follow the simple guidelines and force a few friends to watch it with you and you will laugh so hard you will never forget this movie. Hard to tell if the movie was intended to be hilarious or serious, but regardless the intentions behind it... this is a comedy overdose! Total piece of crap but in a Very entertaining way, I give it a 7 out of 10 because months later I still start laughing like a maniac when I think about some of the scenes in the movie.