John Dies at the End

- language: English
- director: Don Coscarelli
- actor: Allison Weissman Angus Scrimm Chase Williamson Clancy Brown Daniel Roebuck Doug Jones Fabianne Therese Glynn Turman Jimmy Wong Jonny Weston Paul Giamatti Rob Mayes Tai Bennett
- writer: Don Coscarelli
Synopsis:
It’s a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can’t.
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