Dead and Breakfast is quite possibly the stupidest movie of the Idaho International film festival – but it’s still kind of fun. Dead and Breakfast is a horror/gorefest flick that’s supposed to be as silly as it sounds. The title of the film is a play on a “bed and breakfast” where a group of six college-age students find themselves stuck in the midst of a road trip.

Dead and Breakfast captures the atmosphere of zombie movies of decades past as the group soon find themselves stuck at the bed and breakfast after a murder has occurred and creepy policemen begin to investigate. The death is soon followed by others with still no clue as to the source.

Things quickly move from eerie to weird to gross as the zombies begin to pursue the remaining kids back at the bed and breakfast. The zombies will only be killed by getting their head removed, so the kids use everything from shot guns to chain saws to get the job done. The scenes are also interspliced with a country singer narrating the story for us while playing for our expectations.

The gore is intentionally fake and the situations intentionally stereotypical, but the fact that it’s “supposed to be that way” doesn’t really redeem it. Though something of a homage to B-movies of the seventies and eighties, the film does have fun playing with the conventions of the genre – but watching heads getting knocked off is only funny for so long.

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