"Hey, a story's a story...."
Any viewer not familiar with John Dies.... may well be perplexed by director Coscarelli's drug-fuelled fantasy-horror which stylistically hearkens all the way back to his Phantasm series with its fractured narrative and alternate dimensions, complete with all its nods to Cronenberg, Lynch and early Raimi. What starts off as a fairly straight and surprisingly effective adaptation of David Wong's enjoyably bizarre novel becomes progressively less reliant on the source material, sacrificing much character depth and the narrative scope of the novel along the way. Chase Williamson is a good fit for the character of Dave, and in its own right the film handles a lot of interesting ideas reasonably well, and whilst the end result is not entirely successful, it is good to see Don Coscarelli's imagination back on screen and he was ultimately probably one of the most apt directors to tackle this peculiar material.
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