Notable Cast: Jonah Ray, Kiran Deol, Randee Heller, Pete
Ploszek, DeMorge Brown, Kosher the Pig, Jon Daly, Thomas Lennon, Ryan Kattner,
Christian Calloway, Alex Winter, Kumail Nanjiani
Destroy All Neighbors is making a case for the oddest
movie of the year, and its only January. Prog rocker William (Jonah Ray, Mystery
Science Theatre 3000, Satanic Hispanics) bloodily stumbles through a
Dickensian allegory for the creative process. Any horror fan takes note when
they see a death or shocking sequence that they haven’t seen before, and this
film had several that were true firsts for me and likely cinema as a whole.
Destroy All Neighbors’ strength lies in its writing,
as noble and heady ideas of identity, success, and sacrifice grapple with
surrealistic and slapstick executions. Writers Mike Benner (Bob’s Burgers),
Jared Logan (The Late Late Show with James Corden), and Charles Pieper (Beyond
the Dark) weave an impressively accessible picture of just how much an
artist can struggle to finish their work, poking fun at actors, writers, and
musicians in the process. You can feel the influence of Bob’s Burgers
and the Late Late Show in the writing, and fans of these programs with
stronger stomachs should choose to sample this horror comedy oddity.