This film was shockingly enjoyable. In the past year, Hollywood's painted itself into the obsolete corner, this takes a confident step out.
What we have here is a diamond in the rough - it's a bit hyperbolic of me, but then I refer you to a lot of film released last year to dismal response.
We've got a moderately gory film in the vein of Evil Dead 2 or perhaps a lower-budget The Frighteners with a bit more blood.
We do get a film with some heart to it. William Brown is a neurotic, but nice enough guy failing through life, but trying to achieve some music success with his love of prog-rock. He goes through a series of mishaps and hijinks ensue - I'm not spoiling, but it's fun, the soundtrack's pretty on point, which is generally the biggest let-down in music-centric films. There's some really neat music industry related jokes - again no spoilers, it's a smarter film than it immediately seems - also eyes and ears open for the Phil Collins joke.
It also knows its genre, there's a lots of cool easter-egg nods to other films.
Oh, it's got one of the dudes from Super Troopers being fun - if you like Super Troopers, you'll dig this AND also Alex Winters of Bill and Ted's, the rest of the cast are solid and give solid perfomances and it looks like they probably had fun making it.
It's great late night tv a solid horror comedy and kinda feel good at the end, plus the music didn't make me angry.
It loses points for not having any King Crimson jokes.
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