John Dies at the End

Can't believe it took me so long to watch this movie. It's just a lot of fun; it's suspenseful, kind of scary, thought-provoking, and hilarious all at the same time.

I laughed for like 5 minutes at the villain's name- "Shitload."

I was so confused about the main character's name being David Wong, because I remembered that a guy by the same name used to write some hilarious articles for Cracked.com- sure enough the movie is actually based on a book written by that very same guy, and the humor elements are prevalent throughout. In fact the book itself was compiled from a series of chapters released initially as a "halloween special" type thing- apparently Wong posted a new chapter of the story every Halloween to Cracked until he ended up with enough material for a book.


Highly recommend, it's available on Netflix.

Spoilers:

The movie definitely keeps you guessing for like 3/4 of the film before you realize shite is totally real.

I really like that it didn't take a cop-out "it's all happening in his head" direction, which the movie certainly flirts with for most of it's duration.

It actually reminded me most of Army of Darkness.