Club Dread (2004): More Slasher or Comedy? I’m here for Bill Paxton!

Club Dread (2004): More Slasher or Comedy? I’m here for Bill Paxton!

After revisiting the Super Troopers movies, I thought I’d continue with another Broken Lizard movie, Club Dread, a horror comedy from 2004. Or was it a comedy of horrors? I’m joking badly to try to express what was probably the downfall of that peculiar mix of slasher and Jimmy Buffett parody.

But please, don’t go talking about Margaritaville to Coconut Pete, you’ll kill all the fun!

When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete’s Coconut Beach Resort—a hedonistic island paradise for swingers—it’s up to the club’s staff to stop the violence … or at least hide it!

Super Troopers 2 (2018): They came back for more shenanigans!

Super Troopers 2 (2018): They came back for more shenanigans!

Seventeen years later, they are back! They took their time and I’m pretty sure that if they waited a bit longer a streaming service would have offered them to produce this Super Troopers sequel. Anyway, the Broken Lizard team (Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske) went back to their first and probably biggest success with Super Troopers 2, in 2018. Already six years ago.

It’s a bit like Bill & Ted’s return, after all these years of fans asking for it, you hope it would not suck. Yes, the comparison is not the best as the cultural impact of the two is quite different, but still, with movies that look of their time, you may expect that almost two decades later a sequel may fall a bit flat. The thing is, here, it doesn’t feel that long ago for some reason.

When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers—Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva—are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.