Streaming Service: Shudder
Movie Name/Year: Destroy All Neighbors (2024)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Length: 1h 25min
Rating: Unrated
Director: Josh Forbes
Writers: Mike Benner, Jared Logan,
Charles A. Pieper
Actors: Kumail Nanjiani, Thomas
Lennon, Alex Winter, Jon Daly, Randee Heller, Phil Hendrie, Jonah Ray, Ryan
Kattner, Kiran Deol, Christian Calloway, Madara Jayasena, Franco Vega, DeMorge
Brown
IMDb Blurb: Struggling prog-rock
musician William Brown finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally
kills Vlad, the neighbor from hell.
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Jonah Ray Rodrigues and Alex Winter in Josh Forbes’ DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS. Courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder Release. |
Selina’s Point of View:
The beginning of Destroy
All Neighbors felt perfectly B, but with better acting. If you’re a
fan of B-horror movies, then you know exactly what I mean. It was corny, and a
little funny, with some decent – if not the highest quality – banter. It was a
little racy, with some humorous – if immature – gags.
Not that there’s
anything wrong with immature, in the right setting. Which this was.
Just when I
thought Destroy All Neighbors was nothing but a bit of
ridiculous fun, it hit me right in my imposter syndrome. I did not expect it to
come so hard for me in that way.
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Thomas Lennon and Jonah Ray Rodrigues in Josh Forbes’ DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS. Courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder Release. |
Throughout the film, the
audience is bombarded with a ton of goofy B-movie-style dialog, death, and
graphics. Since that’s pretty much exactly what I was expecting, I was happy
with it. Campy and amusing, it was what I wanted it to be. As it rolled on toward
the end, it became clear that it was more about the artist trying to get over
his crippling doubt than the silly Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
style of deaths he was causing.
For there to be any
moral at all in Destroy All Neighbors was something completely
out of left field for me, but not in a bad way.
I had fun and wound up a
bit inspired. Not bad for a flick I was expecting to be a silly little
gorefest.
Rotten Tomatoes Critic
Score – 74%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience
Score – 69%
Metascore – 52%
Metacritic User Score – 6.6/10
IMDB Score – 5.3/10
Trust the Dice: Selina’s
Rating – 4/5
Trust the Dice: Cat’s
Rating – TBA
Trust the Dice: Parental Advisory
Rating - R
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