The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror

I'm a horror fan and a member of the LGBTQAI+!? (hope it's all inclusive) so a gay horror movie must be great right? Well, the thing is horror and LGBTQ movies have a few things in common. There's a few great ones, a few good, some OK, but the majority is low budget crap. This was a silly script packed with clichés embodied by mediocre actors in a visually horrible way. On the plus side: I watched the whole movie. The inside gay jokes, an interesting character or 2, the fantastic opening act, .... left me hoping for more. The idea of a gay horror movie isn't that bad. More original than all the drama you normally get.

I'll keep watching these horrors and LGBT movies in hope for some hidden gems. This unfortunately wasn't it.

What can you expect from anything being titled "The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror"? Nothing great obviously but who can resist such a cheesy title. And while this movie is most definitely not great, it isn't painfully bad to watch either. Its quite amusing actually.

As far as these, simplistic, generic, shoe-string budget, modern, horror movies go, this really isn't a bad one. To be honest, it's on of the best ones I have seen in a long while. It simply did a good job with its very limited resources and was actually quite professionally looking, at least when compared to similar genre movies.

This movie might sound like a very offensive one toward homosexual people but in truth this movie never downgrade itself to any gay-bashing or trying to make fun of homosexuals. Yes, the movie is mostly still a comedy but really not an offensive one. I actually think that some of the people involved with this movie in front and behind the camera's were homosexual themselves. The movie just gave me a that sort of vibe. The only people who might be offended by this are Republicans because they get portrayed as the biggest monster in this movie. It might also be definitely true that this movie its story and concept is just far too silly for anyone to get offended by, in all truth.

The story is just about as simple as it can get. Yes, it's about a gay bed and breakfast...of terror. When a bunch of homosexual couples arrive at a bed and breakfast, somewhere in the middle of the desert, soon some of them start to get brutally slaughtered. It really is all you should need to know. When the motivations get explained the movie actually gets more silly and even worse, till the movie reach its ending, when it's simply just starting to loose it even more, for the worse.

It's a shame that the movie is only that much fun to watch. It's definitely true they could had turned everything up a notch, in order to make this a far more fun and entertaining movie to watch. For a comedy it's simply lacking in its comedy at times. Things could and should had been crazier and more campy, for my taste.

And as an horror...well you can't really take this movie serious as an horror, now can you. In essence the movie is being slasher and yes, the movie does feature blood and gore but you can't really say that the movie ever becomes a scary one. Because of its concept its still being an original one but also nothing more than that.

But seriously, this movie is not half as bad as it perhaps sounds. Give it a shot and you might end up liking it, if only just a little.

5/10

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I'm a big fan of quirky horror, I love the serious stuff but I have to admit I enjoy going to see the odd strange film. Caught this in a festival and was happy to see it is getting a DVD release, I think it will do quite well on that format. The audience I watched it with was not that receptive to the film but I tuned them out and really enjoyed the experience. It's not Psycho or anything remotely of that calibre, I'm laughing that I even said that in this comment. If you want a brain dead experience that brings some laughs and you watch with an open mind then this is a fun film. The director Jaymes Thompson did a good job with this material be interesting to see more work from that direction.

I saw GB&BOT this weekend as part of the Frameline festival in San Francisco. It was a lot of fun and much better than I might have expected. I was thoroughly entertained and I could see this becoming a gay cult classic, with its mix of sexy actors, slasher parody, drag / camp sensibility and poking fun at conservatism. Viewers who are not clued into some gay cultural references may initially find the movie less accessible but I think could still enjoy it.

If you'd like to see it, I asked the director and it is due to get a theatrical release later this year and will be available on DVD in the fall.

If this movie was simply titled "Bed and Breakfast of Horror" I am sure much less people would have watched this...and for a reason...it's pretty bad.

The pace is slow, acting is poor (more like community theater), and the editing is very bad. Scenes carry, shots are boring and there are few cuts that are meaningful. Also they tried a bit too hard to establish that everyone is gay...we read the title, we already know that...

That said, I have seen much worse out there. Might be worth watching if you want to see some gay cinema, but nothing else is redeeming...even the "horror".