If you love prog rock, practical effects, and watching annoying dudes get their comeuppance, then you simply must watch director Josh Forbes’ new film Destroy All Neighbors. It’s a film full of gore, heart, and did I mention gore? It’s just plain fun that pays homage to the 1980s horror films that are chock full of chilling practical effects.
William Brown (Jonah Ray Rodrigues), a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad (Alex Winter). Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.
Dread Central spoke with Forbes and stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues and Alex Winter about the power of music and the glory of gore.
Destroy All Neighbors is streaming now on Shudder!