If you loved Bubba Ho-tep, try John Dies at the End
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Don Coscarelli, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Bubba Ho-tep, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What John Dies at the End is
Ohio. Summertime cicadas. Soy sauce, maybe not soy sauce. Two college dropouts ingest a mysterious black drug and suddenly perceive an encroaching shadow-world just beyond our own. Cosmic horror by way of community college.

