Brace yourselves for a healthy dose of goopy, gory fun this week as Shudder releases its original film today: Music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes‘ (Contracted: Phase II) Destroy All Neighbors.
Helmed by Forbes, from an original script written by Mike Benner (“Bob’s Burgers”), Jared Logan (“The Late Late Show with James Corden”), and Charles Pieper, the film stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000) and Alex Winter (The Lost Boys, Bill and Ted franchise) – who also produce.
The quirky splatter horror-comedy focuses on neurotic, self-absorbed musician William Brown (Rodrigues), who is dead set on finishing his prog-rock masterpiece, but runs into a severe case of creative block thanks to a noisy and grotesque neighbour called Vlad (Winter). William drums up the courage to tell Vlad to keep the noise down, only to accidentally end up decapitating him. But as he tries to cover up the murder, William’s accidental reign of terror leaves him piling up victims who become undead corpses to plague him and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.
To celebrate the release of Destroy All Neighbors in select theaters and on Shudder today, we checked in with Forbes, Winter and Rodrigues to discuss the film’s nods to old-school horror narratives and visuals of the golden era of the ’80s and how Winter embodied the heavily prosthetic neighbour from Hell, Vlad.
