Filmmaker Don Coscarelli has made some great ones — Phantasm! Bubba Ho-Tep! The freaking Beastmaster! And now he’s back with the genre-defying John Dies at the End, a head-trip horror-comedy-sci-fi-fantasy something or other based on the book of the same name. (The marketing campaign for the film tells us that the main characters are sorry for everything that’s about to happen… though if you see the film, you’ll probably say they shouldn’t be!)
John features Paul Giamatti, who also executive-produces, familiar players like Clancy Brown, Angus Scrimm and Doug Jones, and fresh faces Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes in an out-there tale about “soy sauce,” a mind-altering drug that can lead to hallucinations, enhanced perceptions, skinhead zombies, meat-locker monsters, trans-dimensional trips and… death. Just ask John! But really, you’ve pretty much just got to see the movie to understand it (or understand it better, at least).
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
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