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Critics Consensus: Some will find the darkly funny, genre-bending incoherence of John Dies at the End charming; some will feel its zany antics and gore lead to an unsatisfying payoff.
Critic Consensus: Some will find the darkly funny, genre-bending incoherence of John Dies at the End charming; some will feel its zany antics and gore lead to an unsatisfying payoff.
All Critics (86) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (33) | DVD (2)
I stopped taking notes when the woman disintegrated into a ball of writhing snakes.
Despite its astronomical body count, John Dies at the End never takes itself too seriously, and neither should you.
Director Don Coscarelli isn't especially smooth or coherent, and he leans on weird for weird's sake.
[It] eventually finds its own rhythm and meaningful chaos.
Nobody cares about John.
Salvador Dali meets George Romero. Say hello.
This is a film for the young and the young at heart. And those who like their philosophy laden with a heavy dose of paranoia and oddity.
This is a great jumping-off point if you've never been exposed to Don Coscarelli, one of the less-seen indie horror filmmakers out there. If "JDATE" serves as the gateway for new fans, then the movie will be twice the success it already is.
Jump in, leave you sense of logic at the door, sit back and enjoy the trip.
Rare is the flick that wedges this many genres into one frame, and so well.
This is a gloriously gonzo trip packed with enough odd narrative tangents to fill half a dozen features. While not always successful, this energetic mash-up so genuinely wants to entertain that it's hard not to be won over by its barrage of absurdity.
The saving grace of John Dies at the End is undoubtedly its manic storytelling: the energy and pacing of scenes give the movie the impression of being told on the spot (which is of course what the framing device intends).
Fun, horror-comedy-B-movie with above-average plot that keeps you on your toes!
Super Reviewer
The complete mess of a plot tries at every cost to be a smart-ass comedy filled with an offbeat humor that, apart from a very few inspired moments, is simply embarrassing - as we can see, for instance, from an awful aracnicide joke in the movie's ridiculous last hour.
This is a very hard film to describe to anyone, but it's beloved by the internet right now, and I could not be happier. Adapted from a graphic novel of the same name, this amazing film defies logic, death, supernatural elements, and life in general, to bring a really rare and interesting story about two friends directly thrown into the darkness of the world. The main problem in the film is that the universe that has been created by the graphic novel isn't pared down enough to make a film. The entire scope is miniscule compared to what happens, and there are more unexplained questions left behind than anything else. We're not sure exactly what the other side is, how ghosts communicate with us, or what really happens to John (Mayes) and Dave (Williamson). On its own its definitely a psychedelic and feral kind of film, with its sharpened fangs, but there are just too many questions left unanswered and not enough juice to make it longer, so it suffers extensively for these faux pas.
Stupid movie...
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