Rent John Dies at the End (2012)
3.0 of 5 from 134 ratings
1h 39min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- It's all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.
- Actors:
- Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones, Daniel Roebuck, Fabianne Therese, Jonny Weston, Jimmy Wong, Tai Bennett, Allison Weissman, Ethan Erickson, Riley Rose Critchlow, Pat McNeely, Angus Scrimm, Brett Wagner, Bark Lee, Helena Mehalis, Maria Mehalis
- Directors:
- Don Coscarelli
- Producers:
- Brad Baruh, Don Coscarelli, Andy Meyers, Roman Perez
- Voiced By:
- Kevin Michael Richardson, Headmaster Ernesto
- Writers:
- Don Coscarelli, David Wong
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Comedy, Horror
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/02/2014
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Feature Length Commentary with Cast and Crew
- Deleted Scenes
- Getting Sauced: The Making of 'John Dies at the End'
- Creature Corps: The Effects of Soy Sauce
- Casting Sessions
- Fangoria Interview with Paul Glamattl
- Trailer
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Reviews (2) of John Dies at the End
I cannot give it zero stars - so it will have to be 1 star!! - John Dies at the End review by NL
Wow!!
What can I say that will not make me sound like a horrible person??
We watched 45mins of this before we actually switched it off. That is 45mins of my life that I will never get back!! We tried to get to the end but could not bring ourselves to do it, what a ridiculous film with poor acting and extremely poor special effects. The monster/alien things looked like cheap lumps of rubber and were hand puppets. I know it is a low budget film, but come on.......this was beyond a joke
Honestly, the best acting in this film was from the German Shepherd and that is saying something
Do not waste your time, there are better things out there to do than watch this - like watching paint dry!!
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
All Sauce No Substance - John Dies at the End review by griggs
Director Don Coscarelli is best known for the Phantasm series and Bubba Ho-Tep. Phantasm was weird, eerie, and oddly cohesive—the kind of madness that made sense on its own terms. Bubba Ho-Tep, though was nonsense, and not nearly half as funny as it thought it was. John Dies at the End takes that same chaotic energy and doubles down, sprinting into full-blown absurdity.
Based on David Wong's cult novel, throws everything at the wall—time travel, psychic drugs, talking meat, parallel worlds—and then shrugs as none of it sticks. It wants to be clever, but mostly feels like chaos in search of a punchline. The tone staggers between horror, comedy, and cosmic gibberish, never settling anywhere for long.
There's imagination here, sure, but it's buried under its own noise. If Phantasm was weird in a way that lingered, this weird in a way that makes you wish you'd changed the changed the channel ten minutes in.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
John Dies at the End review by George Hooper - Cinema Paradiso
While director Don Coscarelli has been known for films that completely avoid any sense of reality, John Dies At the End is another level of nonsensical. Not only is the film's story a mish mash of blurry ideas but the film concludes in a way that only makes things murkier. It’s almost as if Coscarelli gets off on knowing that anyone watching his films will be confused, even taking pleasure out of writing scenes and character beats so unrealistic and downright stupid that there is no possibility of comprehension.
Trying to summarise the films story is almost impossible but at its core, John Dies at the End is a tale about two friends, Dave (Chase Williamson) and John (Rob Mayes) and the events that take place over the course of a few days as they begin experiencing strang hallucinations due to a dark new street drug that may well be something from another planet, a drug designed to do something to the worlds population, something it is up to the two of them to stop.
That may all sound well and good but it doesn’t really help understand the specifics of the film, a murky, pretentious and infuriating film from the mind that brought people Bubba Ho Tep, an equally confusing yet much more entertaining feature. Unlike Ho Tep, John and Dave’s quest for answers is an impossible odyssey, a journey to find something that doesn’t exist as if Coscarelli didn’t quite get that far in the script before he decided to start shooting.
The film fails to make you invest in the characters as Dave and John have many problems. Their dire need to find answers matches our own but we never quite like them enough to care if they find out because John is a childish mess of a man and Dave is an enabler, a adult mature enough to know his friend is a waste of space with no desire to change. Watching the two go on a ‘wacky’ adventure sounds all well and good but when you can’t decipher the place, time or reason for their excursion it’s hard to stay interested. It also doesn’t help that by the end you still aren’t any clearer on whether on not the title comes to pass. In fact I still don’t really know if anyone in the film lives or dies, it’s just that convoluted