John Dies at the End (2013) on Netflix
David Wong tells reporter Arnie Blondestone how his friend John got a street drug called Soy Sauce. It sends users across time and dimensions, and some come back no longer human.
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Plot summary
Arnie Blondestone, a reporter, listens while David Wong recounts the supernatural events afflicting his city. Some time earlier, David and his friend John attend a party with Fred Chu, Justin White and Amy Sullivan, whose hand was amputated, and learn that Amy's dog, Bark Lee, went missing after biting Robert Marley, a dealer who poses as Jamaican and claims to know things about David. John then shows David a syringe of a black drug called Soy Sauce, which he got from Marley; it grants inhuman knowledge and drops the user into alternate dimensions and timestreams. David accidentally stabs himself with the needle. A stranger, Roger North, then appears in the car and puts a creature down the back of David's shirt.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about John Dies at the End (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Don Coscarelli found the project through a shop's recommendation robot. He had been ordering zombie fiction from Amazon when an automated e-mail suggested David Wong's book, and reading that e-mail alone convinced him it would make a great movie.
- Coscarelli shot the film in secret. Principal photography began in October 2010 and was only confirmed after hints he posted on Twitter were verified; he announced the wrap the same way in January 2011.
