A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: some people return no longer human. Can two college drop-outs save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion?
B финале Джон умрет (2012) Online
It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Chase Williamson | - | Dave |
 | Rob Mayes | - | John |
 | Paul Giamatti | - | Arnie Blondestone |
 | Clancy Brown | - | Dr. Albert Marconi |
 | Glynn Turman | - | Detective |
 | Doug Jones | - | Roger North |
 | Daniel Roebuck | - | Largeman |
 | Fabianne Therese | - | Amy |
 | Jonny Weston | - | Justin White |
 | Jimmy Wong | - | Fred Chu |
 | Tai Bennett | - | Robert Marley |
 | Allison Weissman | - | Shelly |
 | Ethan Erickson | - | Sergeant McElroy |
 | Kevin Michael Richardson | - | Korrok (voice) |
 | Riley Rose Critchlow | - | Girl with Rastafarian |
Director Don Coscarelli stumbled on David Wong's novel as a result of an email product recommendation: "True story: I received an email from a robot on Amazon.com, and it told me if I liked the zombie book I just read, that I would like John Dies at the End. I read the little logline, and it was just amazingly strange. I thought, 'Well this might even make a good movie.' Plus, it had arguably the greatest title in motion picture history."
The uniforms worn by the two members of the Human Liberation Army were not made for this film. They originally appeared as Thermian outfits in the film Galaxy Quest (1999).
In the book, the location of the town its set it in is never given. Instead, it's usually called "Undisclosed". In the movie, however, the label of the parcel John sends to himself is sent to Sherwood, Illinois. There is no Sherwood, Illinois.
The character of Amy Sullivan in the movie is an amalgam of two characters from the book. In the book, there's an additional female character named Jennifer "Jen" Lopez, who only shares the name with the famous singer. She became Dave's girlfriend and has tried the "Soy Sauce" herself, although she refuses to acknowledge any effects it may or may not have had on her.
The title comes from the novel originally being published one chapter at the time online so readers would always have to come back to find out if John died or not.
John's full name is, according to the parcel he sends himself, John Cheese.
The mall where the Mall Of The Dead sequence was filmed is the same mall that producer Roman Perez saw the earlier Don Coscarelli movie Phantasm (1979) at, back when the mall was in business and had a movie theater.
The number Dave dials when calling St. Dom's Parish plays the melody of Mary Had a Little Lamb.
The prologe describes the ancient Theseus' Paradox or grandfather's axe thought experiment.
The onscreen title for this movie at the beginning was CGI "ink". The rest of the shot was actual inkblots filmed in a fish tank.
The Balducci levitation, mentioned by Dave when he first meets Robert Marley, is an illusion of levitation, an impromptu magic trick requiring no props. it was first described by Ed Balducci and bears his name, but its inventor is unknown.
John's full name, John Cheese, is a reference to Cracked.com comedy writer John Cheese (real name Mack Leighty) who co-wrote "John Dies at the End" and the sequel "This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It" with David Wong (real name Jason Pargin). In the end of "This Book is Full of Spiders," David Wong claims that John demands "at least one scene per book in which he 'ramps something,' along with a flat payment for each time I [Wong] use the name in print."
The Robert Marley character's real name is only said once in the movie, when the detective shows Dave his mugshot picture, he says his name is Bruce Mathews. The initials of his birthname is most likely one of the reasons he chose his obvious alias, Robert Marley, or as the real singer went by; Bob Marley. Bruce Mathews; Bob Marley.
After Dave meets Robert Marley, the boys have a discussion in "Hot-n-Tot Cafe." This name is a play on the word Hottentot, which was how early Europeans referred to the Khoikhoi people of Southwest Africa when they first encountered them in the 17th century. The name Hottentot was given to them by Europeans because of how they thought the language sounded. It is unclear as to why this name was used in the scene. The scene was shot at a real diner with the same name, located at 2347 Pacific Coast Highway in Lomita, CA.
Contrary to the title, John does not die at the end of the film.
The crumpled newspaper Dave and John read in the last scene is called "The Morningside Tribune", and is dated February 37th., 5189. It features a main headline reading, "Phenomenon Continues Around South Pole, President Urges Calm". Side columns read, "Spirituality and Faith Decreasing" and "Sales In U.S. Decline: Cigarette Sales At 54 Year Low".
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