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Dead and Breakfast

In a humorous, if ridiculously cheap and tacky, homage to both Evil Dead and Shaun of the Dead, Dead and Breakfast is the kind of low budget indie film that places creativity and imagination over budgetary constraints. Part musical, part horror, part comedy; it’s amazing all the pieces can fit into this puzzle so well and have a cohesive product come out on the other side. Dead and Breakfast is notable for how truly horrid it would be if the people behind it didn’t set out to make a horrid movie.

Writer/director Matthew Leutwyler takes his leads into a world populated by David Carradine, Jeremy Sisto and French accented Diedrich Bader. If that isn’t enough to entice you then there is something wrong with you. While the film then takes a very typical horror turn, it is interspersed by comic book panel transitions, a singing cowboy and a small ode to Michael Jackson. The extras on the DVD are sparse, but forgivable. There is at least a commentary, which in the case of a film like this is really more than you could ask for. Some photos and a blooper reel round out the majority of the rest on a really superb small studio disc.

Dead and Breakfast deserves to have its place on anyone’s shelf next to the ubiquitous twenty or so special editions of Evil Dead or Re-Animator.

Written by: Kevin Yeoman

Reviewers Rating: 7
Reader's Rating: 5.50
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