This film just begins to lose steam and can’t regain it. Plaza is a good actor to build a film around as she has been absolutely stellar in subsequent films like Ingrid Goes West. It should have worked far better, though it just becomes far too repetitive and disjointed. It gets very dark, though not in a way that feels out of place.
Reilly as Beth’s parents hit all the right comedic notes. It is still by no means terrible as the performances of all the cast are universally solid. It holds a sweet spot in my heart, though that can’t overcome the rest of what drags it all down to an early grave. It is that dynamic that is the core of the film and is equal parts funny as it is engaging. The troubled lovers will have to work through their fraught relationship and figure out what is going on with her. The titular Beth, played by an outstanding Aubrey Plaza, then returns from beyond the grave and re-enters Zach’s life. It follows Dane DeHaan as Zach who is struggling with the accidental death of his girlfriend. Speaking of other horror comedies, the charming but meandering Life After Beth is one that has a lot of good within it even as it ranks so low on this list. Horror and comedy can go together, see this year’s hilarious Werewolves Within, though Slice would have been better off if it was left on the cutting room floor. There might be a few jokes here or there that land out of sheer volume, though it never really makes any impression before you get hit with a deluge of bits that are met with silence. This is almost entirely unfunny with hardly a laugh to be found anywhere. Such stoner comedies can and have been great, though they were actually funny. A stoner comedy without any degree of cleverness, it is about as entertaining as being trapped with a friend who got high and rambled about his idea for a script. It never really does anything interesting with the tropes of the genre, more often playing into them as opposed to taking them in a new direction. There is an intrepid journalist, some bumbling detectives, cheesy effects and it feels like it was trying to be a cult film without ever actually having the good craft to back it up.
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The most goofy of all horror comedies, it is set in a small town where a series of mysterious murders of pizza deliverymen mark the signs of something seriously wrong for the area’s residents. In what was just narrowly better than last place, Slice is a film that managed to get a lot of talent involved though it ended up with almost nothing to show for it.
Smith certainly gets points for how he somehow tricked all these people into making it with him, though the end result lands with a dull splash. The film gets far too side-tracked including in a prolonged Johnny Depp cameo that just keeps on going until you wish it would all stop. It is defined by something resembling eccentricity and becomes the most boorish body horror film you’ll ever see. It is, quite literally, a stoned thought turned into a feature. The whole thing feels like a long punchline that doesn’t have the good sense to end.
The most notable aspect of the 2014 film is that it certainly challenges the idea of what can actually count as a film.
As Smith himself described it, the film is a “more cuddly version of Human Centipede.” When he arrives, he discovers not everything is what it seems as the man seeks to turn him into a walrus. Wallace is an arrogant and generally unlikeable podcaster who is making the trip to interview a strange, reclusive man for his show. An idea born out of a podcast, that perhaps should have stayed there, it places us with Justin Long’s insufferable Wallace on a journey to Canada. The unparalleled worst of all the films on this list, it is hard to even fully consider Kevin Smith’s Tusk a movie.
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