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Based on a book by David Wong and directed by Don Cascarelli, John Dies At The End is as close to an actual trip as any filmmaker has yet committed to celluloid, and once it gets going, the constant flow of mind-bending invention never falters, never feels forced, phony or pretentious. If the South Park team ever remake David Lynch’s Lost Highway, it’ll look something like this.

When Wong (Chase Williamson) sits down to talk to reporter Arnie (Paul Giamatti), he spins a whacked-out tale about body-snatching beings from other dimensions, a talking dog, phone calls from the future and a celebrity psychic who can destroy a creature made from cuts of meat by shouting at it.

Wong and his friend John Cheese (Rob Mayes) are no strangers to such phenomena, having acquired a reputation as paranormal investigators, but when John dies mysteriously and starts communicating with his friend from the afterlife, he leads David to a drug known as Soy Sauce that imbues the user with incredible powers, including an ability to transcend reality as we know it. To reveal more would be unthinkable (and bloody difficult), though there’s also a battle with a vast artificial intelligence in an alternate timeline. Obviously.