John Dies at the End (2012) (original) (raw)

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.

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. (less)

Director: Don Coscarelli
Writers: Don Coscarelli, David Wong
Starring: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones
Producer: Brad Baruh

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Review by Brian Orndorf, January 24, 2013

5 / 10

The title �John Dies at the End� is a clever one, at least before the film begins, promising a cheeky viewing experience with a boldly spoilerific title that presents quite a challenge to the production, tasked with keeping surprises when the very name of the effort gives away the twist. It�s quickly established that �John Dies at the End� isn�t going to be about a character named John, which is the first of many disappointments contained within the movie. I suppose one isn�t supposed take the picture so literally, but when the jokes are leaden, the fantasy mangled by cut-rate visual effects, ...read more...

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