I wouldn't count on the title giving you a leg up on the film's outcome.

| Original Score: C | Jul 30, 2023

This could, and maybe should, have been something we'd rave about and line up to see at midnight screenings for years to come.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 9, 2020

The best way to describe the whole ordeal is cheap.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 9, 2019

A hint at what you're in for: mustaches peeling off of faces & flying around, coffee mugs that shoot bullets that turn into flies...after all that happens, THEN it gets weird.

| Mar 3, 2019

The stakes don't seem all that high, despite claims of world-ending consequences. If what you want is schlocky fun, then John Dies at the End should deliver. If you want something more, then you may want to look elsewhere afterwards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2018

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.

| Jul 2, 2018

Jump in, leave you sense of logic at the door, sit back and enjoy the trip.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 12, 2018

Rare is the flick that wedges this many genres into one frame, and so well.

| Aug 24, 2015

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 25, 2013

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).

| Jun 28, 2013

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2013

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2013

I stopped taking notes when the woman disintegrated into a ball of writhing snakes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 15, 2013

Despite its astronomical body count, John Dies at the End never takes itself too seriously, and neither should you.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2013

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2013

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

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 9, 2013

Director Don Coscarelli isn't especially smooth or coherent, and he leans on weird for weird's sake.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 8, 2013

It's like a series of blackout sketches, some of which are entertaining. But mostly, it's a mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2013

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 6, 2013