John Dies at the End Reviews

stands up to repeat viewings, and offers new insights each and every time

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

It is refreshing that Coscarelli is willing to offer viewers something that at least tries to take the rules of cinema into new directions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Gonzo freakiness in such doses that cult status is practically ensured.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Something so weird and off the beaten track that it's kind of wonderful.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

I'm not saying this film will make more sense if you're high. But it will make more sense if you're high.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

How can a single movie contain all this awesome craziness?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

When is a phone call from your dead friend more than just bizarre? When it's made on a hot dog. It's a hopeless mess. But, at least, for its first half, a very entertaining mess.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

John Dies at the End is really freaking weird. It's along the lines of Quentin Dupieux's Rubber, but really pushes the boundaries of absurdity. Just remember that you don't choose the soy sauce. The soy sauce chooses you.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10

Coscarelli's visual imagination is still capable of making you sit up and take notice

Full Review | Original Score: B plus

[It] eventually finds its own rhythm and meaningful chaos.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

...a hilarious and occasionally icky story that should hit the sweet spot for people who like twisted movies and are fed up with the Hollywood assembly line.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

With Coscarelli's kinetic camerawork and drugged-out, comic-book visuals, even the most confounding explanations are made palatable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

An enjoyable but less than totally absorbing linear adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

John Dies at the End should carry a drug label warning: caution consumption of this film may induce hallucinations, impair your ability to see the world as you once did, and cause outbursts of uncontrollable laughter.

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Sort 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

Full Review | Original Score: B-

More arch than amusing, John Dies at the End may exhaust your patience for everything-but-the-kitchen-sink "storytelling." Still, there's something endearing about its relentless barrage of gonzo happenings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Contains all the ingredients for Stoned Late Show success.

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Salvador Dali meets George Romero. Say hello.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Straightening out what's ultimately, and almost literally, a shaggy dog story isn't the point. Hanging on and soaking up a glorious bit of cinematic weirdness, courtesy of Coscarelli's fertile imagination, is.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Just trippy enough...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4