ANY TIME A low-budget horror movie starts off with a road trip, you might as well start imagining targets painted on the backs of all the good-lookin' young travelers. Such is the case with Dead and Breakfast, shot on location in Livermore and Pleasanton (standing in for small-town Texas) by writer-director Matthew Leutwyler. After the group (which includes ER's Eric Palladino, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Bianca Lawson, Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto, and Jeepers Creepers' Gina Phillips, not to mention Oz "Son of Anthony" Perkins) is held up overnight at a sinister Victorian B&B, they must further contend with a passel of zombielike, demonically possessed yokels. It's not long before the Evil Dead 2 references start spraying like gallons of stage blood; the Ash of the group is Sara (Ever Carradine – her uncle David also has a cameo), who wields a chain saw and MacGyvers herself an arsenal of shotguns. The film screeches to a halt when it tries to overexplain all the walking corpses (something about a Tibetan curse and a wooden box filled with souls), and the musical interludes are hardly as clever as those involved clearly think they are. Still, the cast is game, and the endless stream of bizarro elements – geysers of blood, a hoedown, grave robbing, leg wrestling, synchronized dancing – offer plenty of goofy interest. If you saw the recent Aussie import Undead, you know what kind of tongue is resting in what kind of cheek here. (Cheryl Eddy)