
It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. 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.
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| Film.comWilliam GossJohn Dies at the End is easily funnier than it is scary, and much like the drug at the center of the story, it offers one hell of a trip. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's a punchline in search of a joke, and it's tiring to watch scenes ramble on without direction, while most stabs at humor are DOA, missing a cast with genuine comic timing. |
| honeycuttshollywood.comKirk HoneycuttA 25-year-old can get away with a sloppy horror-comedy mix of crazed visual effects and cartoonish characters. An aging auteur cannot. |
| Shared DarknessBrent SimonSort of like if Franz Kafka drank a bunch of absinthe and then wrote an homage to Sam Raimi, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Donnie Darko. And that's a good thing |
| Detroit NewsTom LongDirector Don Coscarelli isn't especially smooth or coherent, and he leans on weird for weird's sake. |
| We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoIt's hard to recommend John Dies At The End because Coscarelli will absolutely challenge some brains, but personally, I like the Soy Sauce influenced insanity which had my mind spinning with glee. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayJohn Dies At The End sometimes strains to live up to its midnight-movie reputation, but not every B-horror picture combines demonic creatures and ultra-violence with musings about what it means to be alive in a world that's getting more unreal by the day. |
| The Robot's VoiceLuke Y. ThompsonJohn Dies at the End could be an all-time classic. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSome of the themes and the hallucinatory special effects are reminiscent of Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch,” and there are cheeky allusions to “Dawn of the Dead” and even “Eyes Wide Shut,” but a viewer with an open mind might say that this midnight-style movie is more enjoyable than any of them. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJohn Dies at the End isn't deep. But it is deeply amusing, in the sickest possible way. |