Destroy All Neighbors

I recently watched Destroy all Neighbors (2024) on Shudder. The storyline centers around a music producer dealing with a frustrated live-in girlfriend and a noisy, manipulative neighbor. When the producer confronts the neighbor due to incessant noise, things take a deadly turn.

This picture is directed by Josh Forbes (Contracted: Phase II) and stars Jonah Ray (Satanic Hispanics), Kiran Deol (Sunnyside), Kumail Nanjiani (Stuber), Kumail Nanjiani (The Lost Boys) and Phil Hendrie (F is for Family).

Despite the potential, the storyline falls short. However, the horror elements shine with top-notch kills, gore, and ghosts. The landlord, neighbor, and homeless character provide humorous moments. Unfortunately, the main character comes off as overly exaggerated and annoying, and the incorporation of music into the storyline feels forced. In a lot of ways I felt this was a mess.

In conclusion, Destroy all Neighbors struggles with inconsistent writing, acting, and storyline. Still, the impressive effects make it worth a watch. I'd score it a 5/10 but recommend giving it a viewing.

So Prog Rock gets a horror film!

This is camp horror set in the context of a milquetoast Everyman who has no gumption or spine to stand up for himself. Enter his annoying neighbors in his crappy apartment and the movie is off and running!

Plot is simple: Am I a man or a mouse? But this entails some crazy coincidences, occasional body fluids, and some random body parts.

The film isn't great, but for a smaller budget production, it isn't bad. Definitely Grade B horror comedy.

But, the awesome thing is the explanation of Progressive Rock that is given later in the film. This and the sampling of the main character's music makes this a must for all that can laugh at a Phil Collins joke.

Prog Rock!

Now, I had never even heard about this 2024 movie titled "Destroy All Neighbors" prior to stumbling upon it by random chance. And from the title alone and the cover art, I must admit that I was immediately intrigued and had to sit down and watch the movie.

So writers Mike Benner, Jared Logan and Charles A. Pieper had every opportunity to impress and entertain me.

And they surely did! "Destroy All Neighbors" turned out to be a wonderful horror comedy that not only had a good and entertaining story, but also was a throwback to the late 1980s and early 1990s horror movies. I was more than genuinely entertained by the storyline throughout the course of the 85 minutes that the movie ran for.

I was for the majority not familiar with the cast ensemble, but they certainly had a group of very talented actors and actresses on the cast list. I was only familiar with Alex Winter and Thomas Lennon in the movie.

Visually then you're in for quite a treat, should you opt to sit down and watch "Destroy All Neighbors". It was nice to have a horror comedy such as this where things were done with practical effects, and that was most definitely something that added a lot of enjoyment to the overall impression of the movie.

"Destroy All Neighbors" was a surprise of a horror comedy, and one that I definitely recommends.

My rating of director Josh Forbes' 2024 movie "Destroy All Neighbors" lands on a seven out of ten stars.

Down on his luck William (Jonah Ray) is a neurotic and egocentric musician whose only goal is to finish his masterpiece. But he faces a creative roadblock . Everything gets complicated the day that the unbearable and disgusting Vlad (Alex Winter) moves in next door. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William ends up killing him accidentally and inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William's accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.

Blood, guts, a lot of black humor and progressive rock run through this irreverent horror comedy. This regular comedy works -at times- on multiple levels , the action scenes are pretty well and adequately mounted , but resulting in an average film. It belongs to a peculiar sub-genre : the horror building comedy .The film contains humor with tongue-in-cheek,thrills , chills , gory scenes and gallons of corny bloody spectacle . This film has enough comedic and acting bite to entertain enough and some sympathetic scenes have worthwhile watch. The plot is plain and simple , a mysterious and dangerous neighbour who causes chaos and mayhem , as he begins erupting throughout the building, acting out their wildest impulses , and our starring must finally rise to the challenge in order to survive. It produces a hectic cynical parody that gets better as more blood is spilled . Script is middlingly written enough to be identifiable and the delivery from actors is often openly mocking the eccentric roles. The storyline is completely predictable but that doesn't flop at all , as there are enough lightweight laughs and antics , to keep the story rolling along . Combining this with passable acting and you will have some diverting moments here and there . While it may not open with much glee , the unworldly struggle towards the end proves to be ludicrously fun . Provided , of course, you accept credentials of a "B" movie and associated a limited budget. "Horror comedy" as a genre or subgenre is more challenging than it sounds . Some in recent years have been really nice , including "Tucker and Dale Versus Evil" and "Shaun", but many of them fail to deliver the goods ."Destroy All Neighbors(2024)" gets an uneven balance , some of it is downright funny , and there is more blood, gore, slitting and beheading here than other movies .

Stars Jonah Ray giving a likable performance as struggling prog-rock musician William Brown who finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad, the neighbor from hell. While the noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad is sympathetically played by Alex Winter. There're some known faces in the cast , some of them newcomers , or veterans or with promising future , such as :Kiran Deol, Thomas Lennon, Randee Heller, Ryan Kattner, Christian Calloway If you're in the mood for some zombie fun you could do a lot worse than this title . My advice watch it alongside other polished comedic terror flicks for a evening chuckle worthy crazy fun. The motion picture was averagely directed by Josh Forbes. The film was made in short budget , even main actors : Jonah Ray, Alex Winter are the producers, in fact the apartment hallway and rooms were sets that were built inside of a warehouse in Los Angeles. John Forbes is known for making musical videos and directing or producing a few films Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002), Decay (2015) and Contracted: Phase II (2015). Destroy All Neighbors(2024) rating: 4.5/10. Recommended only for fans of Splatter and ironic horror full of crazy incidents.

William Brown (Jonah Ray) is struggling to finish his self-described prog rock masterpiece in his home studio. His rundown apartment building is full of noisy neighbors. When he confronts his neighbor Vlad, it goes horribly wrong and more wrong and even more wrong still.

This is a small horror comedy. There are a few recognizable faces in the cast although I don't recognize Jonah Ray. The one that I truly did not recognize is Alex Winter as Vlad. I appreciate the makeup to make him weird, but it may be more compelling to use Alex Winter's real face. He is still a named face that some people would like to see. The biggest issue for me is that I didn't laugh. I can see the comedy, but it doesn't hit the funny bone.