But it can also have one very disturbing side effect. A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback. While the core of the film espouses the belief that time is not linear, the word end suggests there is a beginning and an end to things. They kind of deal with it in the story, when he talks about it with john and the girl with one hand dont remember the name. Martins press, is kind of like pride and prejudice and zombies, but with five fewer bennet sisters and six dozen more dick jokes. Flashbacks reveal how a two drugadded college dropouts saved the world from an alien invasion.
On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across time and. And speaking of spiders, it reintroduces john and dave, the occasionally intrepid duo. Principal photography began in october 2010, and by january 2011, the project had entered postproduction for a planned theatrical 20 release. Thomas dunne books published the story with additional. Users are sent on a journey through dimensions as well as time, but it comes with a. The sense of humour in this book is brilliant and theres a lot of really original, insane, and amusing stuff going on throughout. With chase williamson, rob mayes, paul giamatti, clancy brown. The threat of apocalypse no longer holds consequence enough.
It was juvenileand i loved damn near every minute of it. Nov 16, 2012 its all about the soy sauce, a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. Its an endlessly trippy, oddball experience about a fictitious street drug called soy sauce that lets users see things. This movie, written and directed by don coscarelli and based on a novel by jason pargin writing under the pseudonym david wong, is not.
It stars chase williamson and rob mayes, with supporting performances by paul giamatti who is also an executive producer, doug jones, and clancy brown. Like scot pilgrim versus the world and watchmen, were really stuck with the best version we could get to film. A new drug promises out of body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldy invasion is underway. Literally, when i read the email, i thought, this would make a great movie. It came across to me as though david wong was telling me about his adventures with john, amy, and their meddling dog, molly. First, it depends heavily on david wongs novel of the same name.
What it gets instead is john and david, a pair of college dropouts who can. He rambles, goes off topic and, generally speaking, goes through albuquerque on a trip from detroit to chicago. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were removed in september 2008. The film stars chase williamson, rob mayes, and paul giamatti. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. Youd think it was directed by a recent film school grad with how experimental it is, but thats just the brilliance that is don coscarelli. On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. The novel is brought to life by horror legend don coscarelli, who brings his own brand of other worldly eeriness to the already strange tale. July 20 edited july 20 they kind of deal with it in the story, when he talks about it with john and the girl with one hand dont remember the name.
A new drug promises outofbody experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of earth is underway. Can two college dropouts save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion. On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across time and dim. The top ten films released in 20 by worldwide gross.
Second off after watching this frankly mortifying film adaptation of andrew lloyd webbers cats, im not altogether sure i am a movie person anymore either. Fangoria david wong is like a mashup of douglas adams and stephen king. Oblivion with a smart, funny movie about two old timers battling a mummy in a retirement home seemed about as likely as, well, stuart gordon adapting david mamet, but not only was bubba ho tepunlike anything coscarelli had previously made, it was also his best effort to date. Three popular films top gun, jurassic park, and the wizard of oz were rereleased in 3d and imax. The short film i made in 2007, last call, features the same theme of a reality tripping man trying to hold onto his sanity, and telling another man of his tales of time. In the end, the film feels like a great extras edition to the book, like a bonus. Spoilers inside arson welles registered user regular. Its an endlessly trippy, oddball experience about a fictitious street. If you were a fan of bubba hotep, you will love this new collaboration by this dynamic duo part rock, part spacey, but all cool, this trippy score takes the listener through the wacky and wild world of the paranormal and interdimentional tomfoolery.
Don coscarelli, director, phantasm iv and bubba hotep. After being rereleased in 3d, jurassic park reached a new milestone. By ian watson fifteen years ago, the prospect of don coscarelli following up phantasm. A new drug called soy sauce has hit the streets, and it offers a new kind of high. Don coscarelli, director, phantasm iv and bubba ho.
It has now been made into a movie that opens today at landmarks hillcrest cinemas. The film stars chase williamson and rob mayes, with paul giamatti, clancy. Its a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. There were 9 other movies released on the same date, including hansel and gretel. It introduces the lead character, david wong chase williamson, who is also the narrator of the movie, and what happens to him has zip to do with everything that comes after. The most inexplicably bizarre film of the year, its jawdropping for all the wrong reasons. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our and websites. What it gets instead is john rob mayes and david chase williamson, a pair of college dropouts who can barely. This is a strange film, but it truly puts you in davids headspace. Black comedy, science fiction, horror, buddy, absurdist comedy, low fantasy.
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