Fanboy Flick Pick: John Dies at the End Lives up to Expectations

You were expecting maybe Hansel and Gretel? Or Parker?

Actually, Parker is pretty good. But John Dies at the End could be an all-time classic.

In case you missed it, I’m a big fan of John Dies at the End, mainly because it’s not a movie you can really say is like anything else; I have made comparisons to both Naked Lunch (drugs ‘n demons) and Buckaroo Banzai (insanity from alternate dimensions hunted by celebrity superstars) a few times here, but it’s a lot more satisfying as a story than either. And I say that while being pretty sure I’ve hardly figured even half of it out yet. When a movie begins with a guy burying his ax in a dude’s head repeatedly, over multiple periods of time (because he just won’t, y’know, die), it tends to warm my heart and win my attention.

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