Who’s in it: Bill Paxton, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske
What it’s about: At Club Dread, an alcohol (and other substances) drenched swinging-singles-style island resort off the coast of Costa Rica, the festivities are interrupted by the presence of a machete-wielding serial killer. It’s up to the staff to try to stop (or at least hide) the bloodshed before they lose all their business.
Worth watching?
(star): “I chuckled at one thing in ‘Club Dread,’ a parody of a Jimmy Buffett song title: ‘I’d Tell Ya But Then I’d Have Tequila.’ Otherwise, this is both a sloppy mystery, with meaningless clues everywhere, and a tedious comedy, with jokes that seem to date from before ‘Scream’ turned satirizing horror movies into a cottage industry.”