Destroy all Neighbors is a very silly – maybe too silly – Shudder original horror/comedy. It’s wacky and goofy and maybe a little try-hard… like you can see the gears spinning to crate a kind of throwback cult film. I can’t say if they succeed but they do try… hard.

The flick is about a human doormat living in an apartment failing at writing his epic pro rock concept album. When a creepy Eastern European man moves into the apartment next door and starts making noise at all hours of the night, our intrepid hero is too nebbish to do anything about it. Until he accidentally decapitates him.

This is a very broad, very over-the-top wall of mania and nonsense. And it works more often than it doesn’t… but it sure flubs a lot of jokes in the process. I’d be stoically watching, frowning at the excess when they’d pull off something that made me laugh. And I laughed and appreciated the gag enough to allow them their overload.

The flick is amusingly gory and not just with flying blood but also one of the best performance by a talking head since Re-Animator. Also, some of the best uses of intestines since Ash vs. the Evil Dead… which are arguably more artistic in this flick.

The film is horror/comedy, leaning more on the comedy with the above gore as the horror part. Really it’s just a silly film that makes fun of prog rock and silly gore. It’s a marginal film that slides precariously into the good category. Depending on how much patience you have for its zany schtick.

Score: 75