I Need You Dead!

Pure moments of joy and elation descending into chaos and madness. Reminded me tonally of John Dies at the End. Very much also reminded me of a psychedelic experience that started with me romancing one of the most beautiful humans I've ever met, and ended with me crying while my roommate ate cereal and made sure I wasn't going to do anything stupid.

A brilliant work of independent and b horror cinema. An instant cult classic. The deterioration of the plot and cinematic quality was perfectly meta and executed beautifully. The soundtrack alone is worthy of it's own write up. A perfect collaboration of portland best musicians and artist.

This is one of the most original movie I've ever seen. This movie is emotional, funny, dark, shocking, impactful and so much more. The creative outlook that is this movie cuts deeper than most, and leaves you feeling genuine feelings of distraught and sorrow for both Dood and the director.

I was so excited when I was told it was an indie horror comedy. I'm usually more into just horror but I was hoping the humor would make it an easy watch because even if the horror part was lacking I could just laugh. The beginning was delightful, found the humor actually funny and introduced the main character well. I'd say after him having a breakdown and crying is when it all went down hill. I thought the monster was cute how it was grotesque and mean and wanted the plot to be centered around the monster but instead it started focusing on cops. My poor girlfriend also fell asleep around this time (maybe you can also blame the midnight showing) and I honestly don't blame her. It was super hard to stay into the movie when I didn't even know what was happening anymore. At the end trying to catch my girlfriend up on the way home was hard because it just didn't have a good narrative. At the end of the day I think it was a cool concept and it really felt like there was love put into it and I don't want to be harsh. Just not my cup of tea I guess.

Do you love splatterfest B-movie thrills? Then I NEED YOU DEAD is for you!

Do you love philosophical treatises concerning the nature of watching and filming violence? Then I NEED YOU DEAD is for you!

Do you love the cozy pleasures of genre trappings? Then I NEED YOU DEAD is for you!

Do you love head-scratching, metaphysical explorations of narrative forms and creator-vs-creation quandaries?

Do you long for laughs? For love? For an overwhelming sense of boundless, joyous, and yet provocative creativity?

Then I NEED YOU DEAD is for you!!!