John Dies at the End
| release date | December 27 2012 |
| studio | Magnet Releasing |
| director | Don Coscarelli |
| writer | Don Coscarelli, David Wong |
| starring | Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Angus Scrimm, Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Doug Jones, Glynn Turman, Daniel Roebuck |
| tagline | Just so you know... they're sorry for what's about to happen. |
| site | wwww.johndies.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
| trailer 2 | Trailer #2 |
| trailer 3 | Trailer #3 |
4 Comments
My new favourite movie… Think Bubba Ho Tep crossed with Army of Darkness.
This is a hard one for me to review. I so desperately wanted to love this movie and just found that I didn’t. It’s not for lack of trying though. I’ve read both books and loved them and when I heard they were making a movie of JDTE my first thought was “But that’s an unfilmable movie.” I give them all sorts of credit for trying, I really do, but at the end of the day, the manic fun that made the book so great is just missing. The movie never took off the way I was hoping it would and I think that’s because it had such a hard time condensing what is an incredibly dense book. This is a fun movie, and the effects are great, I just was left flat – something that the book definitely didn’t leave me feeling. Honestly, “There’s Spiders…” would be an easier book to film because it’s much more focused than the first. Still, I give them all the credit in the world for trying. It just fell short of what made me love the book.