“Club Dread” is a horror/comedy that seems to combine “Friday The 13th” with “Meatballs”. It’s from Broken Lizard, the same comedy group that made “Super Troopers”. I despised “Super Troopers” so I went into “Club Dread” with fairly low expectations. While I cannot say it is good, “Club Dread” is a significant improvement over “Super Troopers”.

A group of partygoers travel to a tropical island resort where the main aim is to get drunk and get frisky. However, a serial killer is on the loose and is murdering the staff members one by one. With no means to contact the outside world, the staff try to keep the guests happy while trying to discover who the killer is.

Brittany Daniel (“Little Man”, “Joe Dirt”) plays Jenny, the aerobics instructor and she’s okay. Bill Paxton (“Twister”) plays Coconut Pete, who is in charge of the island. He’s mildly amusing and gets to sing a few silly songs throughout the film. The Broken Lizard comedy team all have roles and none of them are very funny. The killer wears some form of Caribbean voodoo mask. Why is it that slasher villains all have to have a mask as a substitute for a personality?

“Club Dread” is a pretty harmless and forgettable comedy flick. Many of the jokes are pretty lame and it rarely goes overboard with its humour so a lot of its scenes feel like they could be housed in a legitimate slasher movie. One scene that did peak my interest (at least in terms of the concept) was where some of the guests play a real-life version of “Pac-Man” in a maze. It’s certainly something I can imagine being pretty fun to do. The rest of the film is your usual bikini girls and bloodthirsty kills that you have no doubt seen countless times.