Synopsis
Club Dread (2004) is a horror-comedy from the Broken Lizard troupe that you can watch online on iFILM. The setting is Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort — a hedonistic island getaway run by an aging, Jimmy Buffett-style rock star who peaked decades ago and never moved on. When staff members start turning up dead, it falls to the resort's employees — the security guy, the bartenders, the Fun Police — to figure out who's doing it.
Jay Chandrasekhar directs and plays one of the leads, as do the rest of the Broken Lizard team. Their approach here isn't to mock the 80s slasher formula but to actually use it — isolated location, stock character types, escalating body count — while playing the comedy as straight-faced as they can manage. Bill Paxton as Coconut Pete commits fully to a character who deserves his own film.
The movie works better than it has any right to because the kills are real kills and the jokes are actual jokes, not wink-wink genre deconstruction. If Super Troopers was your speed, this one fits right alongside it. Stream Club Dread (2004) online on iFILM.
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