JOHN DIES AT THE END (15)". British Board of Film Classification. July 9, 2013 . Retrieved July 9, 2013. Pargin later got a book contract for the story and it was published under the same title, which then finally was filmed into said movie. Robert Marley: A drug dealer present at the party at the outset of the story, he provides a drug known as "soy sauce" that either kills its users or gives them supernatural powers. Why Hitchhiker's works: Vogon poetry. To appreciate the humor, he built a race entirely absent in emotional expression and vulnerability and then provided an example of their self expression, and the appropriate screams of horror from the audience. Butane, Johnny (February 19, 2008). "Coscarelli Talks John Dies at the End". DreadCentral . Retrieved January 12, 2011.

Berardinelli, James (January 24, 2013). "John Dies at the End". ReelViews.net . Retrieved May 12, 2014. South by Southwest (2012). "John Dies At The End". South by Southwest. Archived from the original on May 17, 2012 . Retrieved May 12, 2012. Pargin, Jason (2022). If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781250195821. Why Hitchhiker's works: one ominous old man who looks a lot like a Biblical God, who creates fjords and completely fails at intimidation. John Dies at the End / This Book Is Full Of Spiders / What the Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies at the End #1-3)

Scott, A. O. (January 31, 2013). "Addictive 'Soy Sauce' With Ruinous Power". The New York Times . Retrieved May 12, 2014. Later, John and Dave play basketball and inadvertently throw their ball into a post-apocalyptic dimension. After going in after it, a paramilitary organization informs them they are chosen ones who will restore the world, but an annoyed John and Dave walk off. The 2012 adaptation of David Wong's "John Dies at the End" ends without John dying at the end at all. While the core of the film espouses the belief that time is not linear, the word "end" suggests there is a beginning and an end to things.

Nelson, Rob (February 5, 2012). "Review: 'John Dies at the End' ". Variety . Retrieved May 12, 2014. a b Quint (October 21, 2010). "Quint knows what Don Coscarelli's new movie is! And more importantly he knows Paul Giamatti and The Kurgan are in it!". Ain't It Cool News . Retrieved January 12, 2011. Also, lots of comedy here – pretty good mashup of horror, comedy, mystery, etc. I found myself both laughing my butt off and disgusted at the same time. So, I have no butt and I want to puke . . . doesn’t it sound like a great place to be? JOHN DIES AT THE END | Archives | Sundance Institute". Filmguide.sundance.org. Archived from the original on April 28, 2012 . Retrieved February 18, 2014. He had told me he was a reporter for a national magazine and wanted to do a feature on me and my friend John. It wasn’t the first request like this, but it was the first one I had agreed to. I looked the guy up on the Web, found out he did quirky little human-interest bits, Charles Kuralt stuff. One article about a guy who obsessively collects old light bulbs and paints landscapes on them, another about a lady with six hundred cats, that sort of thing. It’s what polite people have instead of freak shows I guess, stories we can laugh at around the coffee machines in the office break room.It's a book where, when I read it and was able to get into the actual plot-line of strange things from another dimension trying to break their way into ours, I could actually go along for the ride and be kind of scared and disturbed and sort of enjoy the general wtf-osity of the whole thing. Jason Pargin] has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story.” — David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero Dave? It’s me. Amy’s missing and we got what looks like a bag full of fat here. It’s weird. And I mean ‘bad’ weird, not ‘clown’ weird.

This will not fall in everybody's taste, but if you're willing to take the ride with the right attitude, I can recommend it for you. Robert Marley: Time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud. Your mind... is a flying corn snake hovering through all the possibilities. Now picture Howard Philip Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard smoking pot and drinking cheap booze as they play the game.Watercutter, Angel (January 9, 2013). "John Dies at the End: The Cult Film of Meat Monsters, Penis Doorknobs and Paul Giamatti". Wired.com . Retrieved March 25, 2015. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.