Destroy All Neighbors (2024)

 

 

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.

 

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. 

 

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. 

 

Jonah Ray Rodrigues in Josh Forbes’ DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS. Courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder Release.

 

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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