John Dies at the End is a mildly entertaining movie, but in many ways it's an inferior version of Gregg Araki's 2010 film Kaboom. JDatE unsuccessfully replicates the random story style of Kaboom, and several of its key images/motifs feel very reminiscent of similar elements in Araki's film.
Anyone else who has seen both films feel the same?
One reason that JDatE seems random and episodic is that it was originally written as a Web serial story, with reader feedback incorporated as the story progressed. And it was published as a novel in 2007, 3 years before "Kaboom" was released. And David Wong and Don Coscarelli on their WORST days are ten times more talented than Gregg Araki on his best day.
"Oh Benson, dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence."
Not a ripoff but I thought it had could be a horror version of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Though there were a lot of similarities.
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