Skull dump.

I saw a movie the other night, John Dies at the End. It started out so well. The first several scenes were comical, that is, written gags, verbal and physical, with punchlines. Those scenes were hilarious. They raised my hopes so much. Unfortunately, after the beginning, it stopped being comedy with some horror elements and started to be just campy horror. They needed to go more one way or the other, either make it more comical, or make it less comical and more horrifying. In a way, it reminded me of Phantasm, a schlocky horror movie of the '70s; except that movie wasn't deliberately made to be campy. There's something about willfully making a movie to look and sound bad that ruins laughs, especially if you're paying to see it.