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Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror, The

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One of the most funny and campy movies I have seen in a very long time! My friends and I laughed so much during the movie--it was just so much fun. The acting is actually pretty good and the storyline was great! I loved it and totally want to be in The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror Part 2! Loved it!

Five gay or lesbian couples (with one tag-along f*g hag) waited too long to book nearby accommodations to the big "Blue Party" in the desert, so they reserve the only place on the web with available rooms ... the Sahara Salvation Inn, a bed&breakfast listed as gay friendly. When they finally get to the secluded, rundown inn, they meet the rather strange religious owners, Helen and her daughter Luella, who offer them homemade mincemeat muffins (Trust me, you DON'T want to know!) The guests are a laughable collection of stereotypes, including the current "Mr. Leather" (played by writer/director Jaymes Thompson), a lesbian folk singer, a 20-something "personal trainer" there with his sugar-daddy, a lesbian couple who makes their own line of edible body paints, a gay male couple hardly speaking to each other, and a drag queen with attitude to spare. One by one, many of the guests turn up missing or dead, most of them the work of the dagger-wielding right-wing homophobic lunatic Helen, who prays in front of a candlelit altar covered with photos of Republican party leaders. Then there's her ... err ... son, Manfred. Bad, uh, boy (sort of.)

This is obviously a horror film played strictly for laughs, with lots of blood and gore (strawberry preserves, according to the extras), overacting and trite dialogue, and a "camp" quotient totally off the scale. What can you say about a film whose theme song is "Watch Out for the Straights"? The actors obviously had fun putting it together, which makes it also fun to watch. Not the thing to show Mom and Pop when they visit (especially if they are Republicans, since the GOP is the focus of many of the jokes), and even some uptight gay and lesbian viewers may be offended. It's not great or even good filmmaking, if you go by the usual criteria, but stands by itself as a grossly hysterical diversion which I recommend completely. As several other reviewers have said, "It's so bad, it's great!" DVD extras are plentiful, including a short film about going to "the folks' house" for Christmas, director commentary, outtakes, music video of the theme, making-of short and trailers. Four stars out of five.

This is a movie that is so lame, but that's what makes the movie. It is very funny and one to watch with a group of people, just for laughs. It was great! Felt like a kick back from the 80's type movies...

I saw this film at the Phila Gay Film Festival in 2007, now called Q-FEST. Ditto the other positive reviewer's observations about the film, including it's just so bad that it's good. One couple sitting behind me actually got up and left AND got their money back half way through the film after a tirade of non-stop comments. The film doesn't pretend to be anything more than a take-off on typical horror and gay-camp genre cliches with some amusing current references, a few cute booties, and some hysterical caricatures. Yes it's major bubble gum for the brain, but I have to say after watching some pretentious and serious stuff that afternoon, which I crave, it was some needed comic relief. It had a theater with several hundred patrons both rolling and growning anyway. It's one of those films that probably lends itself best to social viewing just for fun of it. My friend has an outdoor drive-in movie theme party every summer. This would be perfect. Just wanted to balance the negative reviews a bit, which although valid in many respects, seem to miss the point, that is, that there is no point, and sometimes it just works that way.

That's it-the one star is for the title. A group of friends, presumably gay decided to make a slasher flick with a cast of characters living alternate life-styles. Nothing wrong with that, the only problem is, they forgot to make a movie. Just a string of scenes about 5 gay and/or lesbian couples staying as a last resort at a rundown bed and breakfast run by a haggard "drag" of a mother and her beyond retarded daughter. Also crawling around the place is a legless mutant with razor blade teeth-this is the mothers son who is the product of mom being raped by every delegate at the 1980 republican convention. Naturally everyone gets picked off until all that's left is a drag queen and a lesbian folk-singer. They become the new proprietors of the b&b and are as loony as the mother-daughter duo. And of course Manfred, the legless mutant is still around as the new owners welcome a couple of hairy gay guys in town for the "bear" convention.

Believe me, my description sounds better than the movie plays and I hope the film-makers had a good time making the movie because the viewer won't.

P.S. There is a gay slasher movie out there called "Hell Bent" which has a better story, better actors, realistic death scenes and fun.

If they intended "Bed and Breakfast.etc" to be camp, I'd rather go to Camp Crystal Lake and face Jason than ever see this movie again.

The Gay bed and breakfast of Horror is the worst film ever! Attack of the killer tomatoes which has been voted the world worst movie is an A grade blockbuster compared to this film. Think of the worst film you have ever seen then multiply how bad it is by 100 and you might get close to how bad this film is. The plot of this film was weak and the acting even weaker. The script of this film should have been used to beat the writer about the head and shoulders as a fitting punishment for what he has inflicted on the world. Apart from a few of the characters looking good semi naked this film offers nothing to anyone who loves not just a good horror film but any film, ever! I'm sorry to those who are trying to sell this DVD but, I can highly recommend that you DON'T waist you money on the film as you will be disappointed.

I just watched this cinematic abortion and while I wasn't expecting much, I was expecting more than this. I've seen a lot of slasher films and usually you get an idea for all the characters and their stories, even the ones that get killed, but this one left me cold. The violence was cartoonish and over embelished. They must have bought the fake blood by the tanker load. The acting across the board was typical of most low budget gay films. Some were better than others, but I won't expect any of them to see an Oscar in their future. It felt like the film was straddling between horror and camp and it couldn't get the balance right. The director really should have chose a clear path and gone with it instead of trying to please everyone. I could see it redone as a real horror film or as a clever comedy. I have to admit I did laugh once and I jumped a bit once, but that's it. I would strongly urge everyone involved with this movie to go back to film school and try again.