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January 12, 2024. ( 2024-01-12) Running time. 85 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Destroy All Neighbors is a 2024 American splatter horror comedy film written by Mike Benner, Jared Logan and Charles A. Pieper and directed by Josh Forbes.
Destroy All Neighbors: Directed by Josh Forbes. With Jonah Ray, Kiran Deol, Randee Heller, Pete Ploszek. 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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- Josh Forbes
DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS is a twisted splatter-comedy about a deranged journey of self-discovery full of goopy practical FX, a well-known ensemble cast, and LOTS of blood. Director Josh Forbes
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- Alex Winter
- Josh Forbes
- Comedy, Horror
Jan 12, 2024 · Destroy All Neighbors. Simon Abrams January 12, 2024. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. A few names stand out during the opening credits for “Destroy All Neighbors,” a neurotic horror-comedy about annoying neighbors and a self-described “serial manslaughterer.”
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Jan 12, 2024 4:39 pm
Posted: Jan 12, 2024 4:27 pm
If there’s one thing director Josh Forbes’ Destroy All Neighbors has in spades, it’s chaotic energy. Expect a tornado of plasticine special effects, jumpy storytelling randomness, and electric guitar noodling with reckless abandon. Take that as both a warning and invitation, because depending on your personal horror preferences, it works equally well as either.
In that context, Jonah Ray Rodrigues stars as William Brown, a struggling Los Angeles prog-rocker living in a dingy apartment complex while chasing his dreams. All of Rodrigues’ anxious energy is channeled into a dorky stereotype who must deal with every tenant’s worst nightmare: a noisy neighbor. Enter Alex Winter (of Bill & Ted fame) as Vlad, the wrinkly, tattooed party animal who spends day and night blasting EDM tracks so loudly that William’s walls rattle. Winter’s accent waffles between Russian and hints of Irish, muffled under heavy prosthetic makeup that makes him look like a tracksuit mafia goon crossed with Warwick Davis’ Leprechaun. Despite that ridiculousness, Vlad works well as an imposing psychopath and William’s worst nightmare, which sets up the streamlined conflict of Destroy All Neighbors: Can William (“Willie” as Vlad calls him) stand up to his next-door nemesis and ask the brute to quiet down?
The answer is yes, and that’s when the fun at least attempts to begin. Rodrigues’ wimpy loser clashes against Winter’s cartoonishly brash machismo as William confronts Vlad in his apartment. It’s a ridiculous sequence of events involving a greasy chicken bone and concrete barbell weights that is meant to display the extremes of both men’s personalities, coming off a bit “Troma Lite,” given the lean into situational nonsense. Rodrigues does his best to embody the reluctance of a gangly band-geek turned killer, which works fine enough initially, and Destroy All Neighbors gains momentum once it gets to actually destroying neighbors. There are some fun nods to Dexter in both the gruesomeness with which William covers his tracks and his deceased victims’ tendency to stick around and continue their conversations in his head.
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Destroy All Neighbors is excessively schlocky but unsubstantial, grotesque but unbalanced – a horror-comedy with a problem getting its jokes across. Plenty of conceptual promise around its "awkward guy pushed too far" premise becomes lost in a baffling journey into reanimation and prog-rock soundtracks, and there’s little cause for excitement outsi...
- Matt Donato
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