The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
I’m trying to devote my time on this blog these days to finding dope YouTube clips of some of the most interesting movies I’ve seen, & when we started talking about the different plateaus of devotion & replication, I remembered the neo-classic Dead & Breakfast. The film is a parody of sorts of zombie movies old & new, poking fun while at the same time paying an homage to all the classic movements, lines, & directions that make the zombie “genre” so much fun. Thrown into the mix, though, are randomly interspersed synchronized musical moments that blend the odd line between Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” & The Rocky Horror Picture Show (for better or worse, after all).
The movie is absurd, daring, hilarious, & at times terrifying (& as gory as you need it to be, which is always a plus in my mind), very reminiscent of the equally great Shaun of the Dead; it’s often been tagged as the American version of that same film, actually, although they aren’t really based off of one another in any way. In terms of genre-tagging, Dead & Breakfast plays off of almost every level, the burlesque especially, but the nostalgic in its different terms & forms as well. It’s possible no one will ever want to see this (especially after that embedded YouTube clip…jeez), but really I couldn’t recommend it more. This is the kind of genre film that people should be watching, in the end.
