Club Dread

Club Dread (also known as Broken Lizard's Club Dread) is a 2004 comedy slasher film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by and starring the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brittany Daniel, and Bill Paxton.

The film follows a group of staff members on a tropical island resort, where an unknown killer begins a murder spree.

Pleasure Island is a resort off the coast of Costa Rica, owned by famous, washed-up musician Coconut Pete.

Staff members Rolo, Stacy, and Kelly sneak into the jungle to have sex, where they are ambushed and murdered by a masked figure.

Hank, a former FBI serial killing investigator, convinces the staff to continue with their jobs and allow him to catch the killer.

Just as everything escalates, Jenny calms everyone else down and tries to convince the group that they must work together to survive until the shuttle from the mainland returns for the guests.

Jenny and Lars find Dave's severed head and, thinking the killer is coming for them, hide under a bed.

Jenny places a nearby pair of handcuffs on what she believed to be the killer's feet, only to realize that she handcuffed Putman by mistake.

Just as everything seems to settle down, Sam's upper half emerges and grabs Penelope, but Lars tosses him into the ocean, before they motor away.

[6] Critic Roger Ebert gave the film a rating of two-and-a-half out of 4 stars and wrote that "Whether it works or not is a little hard to say; like "Super Troopers" (2002), the previous film by the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, it has lovable performances, very big laughs, and then some down time while everybody (in the cast as well as the audience) waits to see what willhappen [sic] next".

It features several extended scenes, and also restores a subplot involving two cops that was absent in the theatrical edition.