Director: Josh Forbes
A prog-rock obsessive with paper-thin patience turns one noise complaint into a house full of corpses in this splatstick horror-comedy from director Josh Forbes.
What is Destroy All Neighbors about?
William Brown just needs quiet. Holed up in his apartment, he is racing to finish the sprawling concept album that he believes will finally prove his genius, and his grotesque next-door neighbor Vlad will not stop making a racket. When William finally works up the nerve to confront him, a scuffle goes horribly, irreversibly wrong, and Vlad ends up dead by decapitation. Panicked, William tries to hide the body, but covering up one killing only drags him deeper into a nightmare: the dead refuse to stay that way, more neighbors get pulled into the chaos, and William's apartment building slowly fills with undead tenants hungry for more than an encore. Jonah Ray anchors the mayhem as the increasingly unravelled musician, with Kiran Deol, Thomas Lennon, and a scene-stealing performance from Kosher the Pig rounding out the ensemble. Shot with practical gore effects and a wicked sense of comic timing, the film treats its rock-opera ambitions and its body count with equal seriousness, which is exactly the joke.
Cast & crew
Jonah Ray carries the film's frantic energy as William, playing the character's delusions of musical grandeur completely straight, which makes the escalating carnage funnier. Kiran Deol, Thomas Lennon, and Randee Heller supply sharp comic support, while Kosher the Pig earns one of the more memorable non-human film credits of the year.
Context & significance
Director Josh Forbes builds the film around practical creature and gore effects rather than heavy digital work, giving the horror-comedy a tactile, midnight-movie texture. The prog-rock soundtrack is not incidental set dressing; William's overblown magnum opus becomes a running gag that pays off by the film's final act.
Where & how to watch
Destroy All Neighbors streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and subtitles, presented in a Persian-language interface built for the diaspora audience. The film's page is free to browse; watching the full feature requires logging into a K-Time account.