Destroy All Neighbors

Destroy All Neighbors is a fun little movie about a young prog-rock musician who is struggling to release his newest album and after his new neighbor Vlad keeps being loud and annoying, he goes to confront him. From there on an absurd and fun journey begins.

The movie uses some great practical work and is equipped with a unique and interesting story. There's lots of bloody carnage and the humor is great making the movie actually funny at times. There's even a fun cameo by Kumail Nanjiani in this. Alex Winter as Vlad did an amazing job and his character is already iconic in my opinion.

However this movie is not flawless, since the story's pacing seems off at times and there are several plot holes. The overall production seems rather cheap but it looks like they made the most out of it and overall I think this was a decent horror comedy that reminded me of some stuff from the 80s. [5,6/10]

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.

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.

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!

Genuinely think this is a new horror comedy cult classic. Dashes of Evil Dead, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, The Leprechaun, even a little A Nightmare on Elm Street for me. My first introduction to Jonah Ray and he is very funny and cute, seemed a role tailor-made for him. The whole film was very high quality and seemed like so much work was put into it. From how it looked, to the gore, I really felt the love they poured in. And let's talk about Kumail Nanjiani damn near stealing the whole movie?? This was such great fun, and I know the whole horror community will wrap their chopped off arms around it :)