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The John Dies At The End trailer premiered at Fantastic Fest today, but you can watch it right now!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Don Coscarelli and Doug Jones showed up at Fantastic Fest today to premiere the trailer for their upcoming effort John Dies at the End as well as a few minutes of lead Chase Williamson in a car talking with Jones' Roger North, a mysterious stranger not from around these parts.
That footage, featuring a pain-inducing slug of some sort, is not online, unfortunately, but the trailer is and it's a good one. Coscarelli's last big cult indie hit was Bubba Ho-Tep and you can see a lot of that creativity and weirdness on display here.
So, see Paul Giamatti being awesome, Clancy Brown being a badass, Chase Williamson being funny, the teacher from Gremlins/Super 8 being odd and a bunch of really creepy dudes in masks and hope we get to see this one in a theater near us sometime in the foreseeable future!
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ever ! i like Giamatti.
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the title is one.
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No, seriously, somebody tell 'im. Movie looks fun though.
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this looks very good: Clancy Brown is coolness personified and it looks like there are a bunch of practical effects too. A shame that this will run in the theatres for about 5 mins before it's sentenced to dvd hell. :(
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Wasn't Don Coscarelli supposed to direct Bubba Nosferatu with Paul Giamatti ???? So did he give up on that and create this instead? Which is the better choice, because its a horrible idea to do Bubba 2 without Elvis himself.
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I loved the book - thought it was fucking funny, as well as batshit insane. This trailer looks like it's got the batshit crazy thing right. Let's hope it brings the funny.
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Sept. 26, 2011, 6:05 a.m. CST
I love Cracked... That site has helped me kill so many productive work hours.
by Chewtoy
I never did get around to reading "John Dies At the End" though. I would now, but then Ive wasted all my free time reading lists of bizarre and humorous facts. Looking forward to the film.
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Kind of a modern Vonnegut category. I've read Crooked Little Vein, and the Sandman Slim series. Does anyone have any other suggestions for something along these lines? These books are great guilty pleasure reads.
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and loved it. Hilarious, terrifying and often pretty deep at the same time. I have total faith in Coscarelli and the cast to pull this off. Looks like they've eschewed the Las Vegas stuff in favour of combining it with the second half of the book (is that Clancy Brown in Shit Narnia?), which makes sense adaptation-wise.
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but it looks awesome.
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Sept. 26, 2011, 8:17 a.m. CST
Bout time jigsaw was in something else. Guy has great presence
by UltraTron
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I've been reluctant to buy the book because I heard there were a lot of changes, many of which the online-version-readin' folk did not like...unfortunately it's been so long since I read the online version, or the comparisons between online and print, that I have no real idea what I'm talking about. Anyone read both versions and have an opinion?
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eXistenZ feel to it. Yay!
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their freedom. John=penis=pissing=relief=freedom
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Absolutely fantastic!
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Coscarelli does horror Matrix - could be his masterpiece
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Sept. 26, 2011, 9:03 a.m. CST
freakin' BED BUGS.....Looks like an attack of giant bedbugs
by theycallmemrtibbs
---creepin' me out man
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I'd highly recommend these authors if you're looking for that style: Christopher Moore, and Tim Dorsey. Moore plays more in the supernatural field like JDATE, and Tim Dorsey has written a very bizarre post-modern series that's like Hunter S Thompson, Vonnegut and Dexter had a baby. Serge Storms will be one of your favorite characters by the time you're done the first book - and there is 11 more after that!
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It's a funny book - often laugh-out-loud funny - but it's also deeply creepy. There are few things that can do both well. Really dig the trailer, the practical effects, the low-budget griminess. I hope they hit it out of the park. The material deserves it.
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Thanks for the recommendations. I've read Moore and he's not really for me. Tim Dorsey sounds like a good read though and I'll give it a shot.
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Simon r green,, nightside series Is great fun he's on book 13 by now
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Out of curiosity, which Moore books did you read? Because his most popular books are among his weakest. As for Dorsey, start at the beginning with 'Florida Roadkill' and try and read them in order. The series has more ongoing characters than 'The Wire', so you'll get lost if you don't.
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That is the motherfucking CLIMAX of the first half of the book, you can't just cut that shit out.The level of pure madness in that part of the book made me laugh and giggle like a fucking kid. I man come the fuck on, I and I KNOW EVERYONE ELSE wants to see/hear their guitar playing skills AND SINGING !! If they do cut anything I hope its the 3rd chunk of the book, it sort of meanders there and you can tell that he was trying to stretch shit out for the finale. From the trailer it does seem to leave in the batshit opening chapter, sure hope they have a penis handle..... ;)
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I was thinking the same thing, re: spontaneous cockening of door handle. I doubt it will be left in. I hope so, but I doubt it.
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I hate to sound jaded, but they were just too uplifting for my tastes. When I read, I like cynical. Though, I did like some of the out of the box ideas about Christianity that were presented in Lamb. Does he have better books than those?
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...or did anyone else have trouble making out most of the dialogue in that trailer? Maybe I should get my hearing checked out. Looks cool, though.
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Those two books aren't even in his top 5. In order (IMO): 1) A Dirty Job 2) Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove 3) Fluke 4) Practical Demonkeeping 5) The Stupidest Angel... Coyote Blue is also pretty cool. To stay on topic: can't wait for the John Dies at the End movie, though the 'wig monster' looks different than anticipated. Still, looks great.
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Hate to say it, but it looks like Vegas is out. Halfway through the trailer there's a couple of shots of what appears to be Shitload-Justin leading Dave, John, J-Lo and Fred Chu around the abandoned mall, where I'm guessing much of the action has been re-set for budgetary reasons. If nothing else, I hope Don's found a way to keep John's endless array of chair-related puns, which was one of my favourite bits of the book.
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I'll see that.
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I've been waiting impatiently for this film since I first heard it was being made. The book is practically a yearly read now for me, and I don't even like the horror genre at all. The trailer looks like it hits on all the important points of the book and I absolutely love everything I'm seeing in it. For those who were worried the print book makes too many changes from the online version: I can't speak for the newer hardcover, but the Permuted Press paperback edition had no significant changes that I could spot. It's definitely worth reading while you wait for the movie, I think. In fact I'm so jazzed up for the film that with October rolling around anyway, I'm thinking of giving the book yet another read soon.
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Agreed about the chair puns. I don't know why but that's the part of the book that sticks with me the most.
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Try "Your Days are Numbered" and "How to Disappear Completely" by Myke Bartlett. You can download the podcasts at podiobooks.com, but I think they are also available in print. They are kinda like if Douglas Adams wrote a noir-ish series. Also I agree with jarek about Tim Dorsey. I think he even has a free book on Kindle (Atomic Lobster).
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Coscarelli really got it right (I hope).
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2012 is far too long to wait. I want this now!
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