Dead and Breakfast a Zombie Musical.

 

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A friend recently recommended a great B movie to me. I was wondering if there were any zombie westerns and she suggested Dead and Breakfast.

It's not quite a western, and it's not quite a zombie film, but it's loaded with gory campy fun. It's also streamable on Netflix so you can watch it right now.

Dead and Breakfast uses fairly traditional plot devices to move the story along. A group of 20 something travel through the back roads to a friends wedding, and get lost. They arrive for the night in a small Texas town, Lovelock, which happens to be the home of some very creepy people and of course demonic spirits.  I know this device seems pretty cliche', but it is used quite effectively for this campy gore fest. They take the traditional trappings and turn it on on it's head by adding even more camp, like a guitar playing musical narrator.

The narrator makes the movie, he's across between Mojo Nixon the free credit report band, and absolutely pulls the audience through the movie --- with great punk rock a billy songs and and a sense of humor that puts the bad acting and camp into perspective.

Dead an Breakfast isn't scary, isn't well acted, and isn't well written. That's a great thing, it's not supposed to be. It is gory, funny, and filed with musical numbers, and definitely worth watching.

So go a head and crack open a lone Star or a Shiner Bock, and enjoy this, almost, zombie filled western musical. You won't regret it.