Line #25 Film/ClubDread


1	[[quoteright:203:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Club_dread_ver2_9207.jpg]]
2	''Club Dread'' is a 2004 comedy horror film written by Creator/BrokenLizard, best known for ''Film/SuperTroopers'' and ''Film/{{Beerfest}}''.
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4	Lars, a big fan of washed-up singer Coconut Pete, arrives on his private party island to start his new job. His timing couldn't be worse, however, as there is a killer among the island's various crackpot employees. And they have to figure out who before there's no one left...
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6	!!This film provides examples of:
7	* AccidentalMisnaming: Juan continuously mispronounces Penelope's name as "Peenalop" throughout the whole movie.
8	* ApocalypseAnarchy: Parodied: at the climax, where all of the guests are scared out of their minds because they now know there is a killer on the island [[spoiler: thanks to the killer dangling all of the hosts' corpses from the dance hall ceiling]], the whole group riots and does such things as have sex while wearing calamari costumes.
9	* AssholeVictim:
10	** Rolo. The flashback shows him lying to Sam about not having weed, desecrating an old tombstone for laughs, and insulting Putman. [[spoiler: The former is why Sam kills him.]]
11	** Dirk. He goes out of his way to insult Putman and his last moments are spent scaring and [[CasanovaWannabe hitting on a clearly uninterested Jenny]].
12	* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Sam.]]
13	* BadassBoast: [[spoiler: Subverted.]] Hank starts to give on of these to the killer, [[spoiler: and gets his throat slashed before he can finish.]]
14	* BerserkButton: When a drunk guest asks Coconut Pete to play "[[Music/JimmyBuffett Margaritaville]]" instead of his hit song "Pina Coladaburg", he walks off in a huff, cursing about how he came up with the song seven years before.
15	* BestialityIsDepraved: [[spoiler: Juan's DarkSecret is that he fucked a goat when he was a teen. The most hilarious part is when he gives his MotiveRant, it's like this:]]
16	-->'''[[spoiler: Juan]]''': I was lonely! (breaks down sobbing) We (as in him and ''the beast'') were just a pair of stupid kids!
17	* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler: "The fun is done!"]]
18	* {{Bowdlerize}}: There are actually two versions of the poster being used as the page image; the only difference between them is that the woman has a miniskirt on instead of a bikini bottom.
19	* ChekhovsGag: Penelope's gymnastic training is only showcased once when she does a stunt to get in bed with Juan before having sex with him and then doesn't figures out in any way in the plot until the climax when the hosts must jump off a cliff to get to a boat and when Penelope does so she pulls a perfect reverse twist.
20	* ClosedCircle: One of the first things the killer does once the spree begins is to steal the two dinghies that are used to transport guests to the island and smash the radio.
21	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Coconut Pete, Putman, and Penelope.
22	* CoversAlwaysLie: See the bikini-clad woman in the cover holding a knife? That scene never happens. [[spoiler: The killer isn't even female.]]
23	* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: Sam decides to KickTheDog and scare all of the guests at the climax by dangling up all of the hosts he's killed so far from the rafters of the ballroom.]]
24	* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Sam says that the reason for his killing spree was because Rolo lied about him not having his weed (which he then used for himself). It is then subverted when he realizes his real reason seconds later.]]
25	* DistractedByTheSexy: When Juan is trying to find out if [[MsFanservice Penelope]] is the killer, he ends up sleeping with her instead.
26	* DreadlockRasta: Putman. Dirk mocks him by using a Jamaican accent when they first meet and Dave speculates that he is the killer because his hair looks like an octopus, like from the Coconut Pete's song.
27	-->"Am I the only one who thinks his head looks like an octopus?"
28	* EverybodyAlreadyKnew: [[spoiler:Jenny deflates Putman's declaration about Dave's supposed DarkSecret by saying ''everyone'' knew how his parents died and that he's Pete's nephew.]]
29	* ExpyCoexistence: Coconut Pete to Jimmy Buffett, to the point that Pete calls Buffett a hack because one of his songs supposedly was plagiarized for "Margaritaville".
30	* FemmeFatale: Penelope. [[spoiler: Or so we're led to believe at first.]]
31	* {{Fingore}}: Kelly dies after she nearly runs off a cliff and tries to grab onto a branch to steady herself. She ends up grabbing the blade of the killer's knife instead, slicing her fingers open before falling her to death.
32	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
33	** [[spoiler: Sam]] threatens to take someone's head off if they come near his cabana. Guess who the killer turns out to be?
34	** [[spoiler: He's]] also the one to point out how the way the bodies are found is connected to the lyrics of Coconut Pete's song.
35	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Sam gets cut in half by a rope tied to a speedboat.]]
36	* {{Homage}}: [[spoiler: The upper half of Sam's body tries to grab Penelope out of the boat in a manner highly similar to Jason Voorhees at the end of the ''Film/FridayThe13th1980''.]]
37	* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler: Sam is apparently killed three or four times in quick succession at the climax with the "final" death being cut in half by a rope... and then the final scene pulls an TheEndOrIsIt by having his legs swimming behind the boat that has our heroes riding into the sunset.]]
38	* LastNoteNightmare: "Naughty Cal" ends with Coconut Pete saying a very spooky "we're all gonna die!" and performing an EvilLaugh, which makes everybody nervous when they try to make sense of the song's lyrics. [[spoiler: Becomes spookier when they find Dave's head on a record player that is playing "Naughty Cal" and it [[BrokenRecord gets stuck on]] "we're all gonna die... we're all gonna die... we're all gonna die...."]]
39	* LoonyFan: Lars is apparently one for Coconut Pete. [[spoiler: Everyone finds multiple photos of Pete that have cut outs of Lars' face crudely glued onto them, but it turns out despite this Lars is both harmless and not the killer.]]
40	* LowSpeedChase: How [[spoiler: Yu]] meets [[spoiler: her]] end.
41	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Coconut Pete is an obvious Music/JimmyBuffett parody, complete with having a SignatureSong called "Pina Coladaburg". PlayedWith because Pete [[BerserkButton hates]] [[ExpyCoexistence Jimmy Buffett and claims he ripped off his act]].
42	-->'''Coconut Pete:''' (about Music/JimmyBuffett) ''"Son of a son of a bitch! Mother motherfucker!"
43	* OffWithHisHead: Stacey manages to make it almost back to the resort only to stop and take a breath when it's within eyesight, giving the killer time to sneak up on and decapitate her.
44	* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Putman]] after [[spoiler: Jenny]] handcuffs him to a bed by accident and the killer spots them.
45	-->"You manacled me to my death bed, you picadilly whore!"
46	* OpenSecret: [[spoiler: Putman thinks Dave is the killer when he reveals to everyone that Dave's parents were trampled to death at a Coconut Pete concert. Also, Pete is Dave's uncle and Dave is likely to inherit the island once Pete dies. This is meant to be seen as a major revelation... except Jenny tells Putman that ''everyone'' knew about Dave's parents and his relationship to Pete, chastising Putman for his lack of tact. Oh, and Dave reveals he acquired the rights to the island days before people began dying, so it wouldn't have mattered if Pete was dead or not.]]
47	* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: No real way to describe Coconut Pete's Island Resort other than this.
48	* RasputinianDeath: The BigBad gets one towards the end. Stabbed repeatedly, drowned, severed in half with a rope, and his legs are implied will continue to pursue the protagonists once they ride off into the sunrise.
49	* RedHerring:
50	** Both Penelope and Putman are odd, [[spoiler: but neither one is the killer.]]
51	** Penelope mentions in passing while giving her reason why she's a host on the island (getting fed up with an EducationMama that wanted her to be a gymnast) that her former trainer was a psychotic DrillSergeantNasty that would have hunted her down to the ends of the Earth and killed anybody who got in the way to force her to continue training. [[spoiler: The man never appears.]]
52	* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Jenny is this to Putman. He even lampshades it twice, first:
53	--> ''"Really Jen, am I the ONLY one?"''
54	--> and again with:
55	--> ''"Oh, Jenny, you've got your arms around me. I can only assume this must mean EVERY other man on the island is dead."''
56	* StalkerWithACrush: Putman to Jenny. She even finds out that he stole a pair of her panties.
57	* TemporaryBulkChange: [[spoiler: Lars knows a technique that allows him to alter his body mass and make himself temporarily skinny, which is how he got out of the closet despite the window being so small.]]
58	* TropicalIslandAdventure: The movie is set on a fictional tropical island in the Caribbean.
59	* WhosOnFirst: One of the main characters is named Yu, so, of course, there would be a little of this:
60	-->'''Juan:''' Pete! Yu and Hank are dead.
61	-->'''Coconut Pete:''' Why? What did we do?
62	-->'''Juan:''' No, man. Yu and Hank are fucking dead.
63	-->'''Coconut Pete:''' You threatening me?
64	* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Jenny barely escapes the killer [[ElectrifiedBathtub electrocuting the resort's pool]] in the third act and spends the rest of it running around in a bikini with a shirt on top.
65	* TheWalrusWasPaul: [[spoiler: Sam lampshades how stupid the others are by thinking "Naughty Cal" actually factored into the pattern of the killings and says "I'm the walrus!".]]
66	* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: After Putman dramatically reveals how Dave's parents died and how he's Pete's nephew, Jenny asks what the hell is wrong with him saying everyone on the island already knew that.]]
67	* WordSaladLyrics: The Coconut Pete song "Naughty Cal", which actually factors into the plot: The murders initially seem to be based on the song, but the lyrics are so nonsensical that trying to use them to figure out the killer's next move proves impossible. When asked about what the song means, Pete says that he was on so many drugs at the time that he doesn't even remember writing it.
68	--> '''Jenny:''' Our lives depend on us interpreting the dumbest fucking song I've ever heard!
69	* WorfEffect: Hank is hyped up as a former FBI agent who helped stop numerous serial killers before he started working on the island. [[spoiler: [[TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled He's killed within a minute of meeting the killer]].]]
70	* WoundedGazelleGambit: The killer pretends they're getting attacked in order to lure the surviving characters into harm's way. [[spoiler: Specifically, Sam fakes drowning in a mud bath.]]

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