Deathgasm (2015)
Directed by Jason Lei Howden
Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.
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What critics compared Deathgasm to
What we have here is an unhinged horror comedy in the sanguinary Kiwi tradition of Peter Jackson’s epic 1992 gorefest “Dead Alive.”
Deathgasm is a bloody, head-banging ball of fun, gore and soul-shaking music, and fans of films like Dead Alive and Evil Dead will find a lot to love in its embrace of splattery shenanigans and the idea that staying true to yourself might someday save the world.
Deathgasm is firmly in the tradition of Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, with some Evil Dead thrown in for good measure.
Clearly, they’ve never watched any of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead movies.
Not since Sam Raimi's Evil Dead or Peter Jackson's Braindead have we seen this level of splatterpunk filmmaking – a cross between Night of the Demons (the original one, of course) and a Tenacious D skit.
Deathgasm is a bloody, head-banging ball of fun, gore and soul-shaking music, and fans of films like Dead Alive and Evil Dead will find a lot to love in its embrace of splattery shenanigans and the idea that staying true to yourself might someday save the world.
First-time director and avowed metal maniac Jason Lei Howden sprays his splatstick influences (Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste, Sam Raimi’s first two Evil Dead films, Shaun of the Dead) all over the place, but still manages to leave his own hyperactive signature on the genre.
Deathgasm is firmly in the tradition of Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, with some Evil Dead thrown in for good measure.
The New Zealand-born creator’s first feature, Deathgasm, premiered at SXSW in 2015 where it won several awards, and his follow-up is bound to garner similar attention.
After the fitfully hilarious metal horrors of Deathgasm, Kiwi visual-effects-specialist-turned-writer writer-director Jason Lei Howden's return to the big screen is another gleefully over-the-top take on a well-worn genre.
In the hands of many filmmakers a concept like this would quickly devolve into a tiresome series of action sequences, dreary characters, and drab volleys of wheel-spinning plot exposition — but fortunately the director on hand is Jason Lei Howden, a crazy Kiwi filmmaker who delivered the enjoyably insane Deathgasm a few years back, and seems fully intent on continuing to deliver over-the-top violence and unexpected humanity laced with generous doses of rockin’ tunes and a dark sense of humor that often cuts right through the sheer ridiculousness of what’s happening onscreen.
— online, Guns Akimbo , Jason Lei Howden’s disappointing follow-up to Deathgasm , has a couple of smart ideas baked into its premise.
One doesn't expect subtlety from a filmmaker whose first (surprisingly amusing) movie went by the title Deathgasm .
With Guns Akimbo, director Jason Lei Howden (Deathgasm) has made a film that feels as though it escaped from the Crank cinematic universe.