John Dies at the End

Upping the ante from the excursion into cinema strangeness that was "Bubba Ho-Tep," writer/director Don Coscarelli's bizarro horror comedy─adapted from the book by Cracked.com's David Wong─concerns misfit David (Chase Williamson) and his titular friend (Rob Mayes), whose ability to see a hidden universe thanks to their ingesting a special "soy sauce" leads them to a fight to prevent global apocalypse. Hey, is that title a spoiler? With Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, and Doug Jones. 99 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish; audio commentary by Coscarelli, others; deleted scees; featurettes; theatrical trailers.