DEATHGASM

In DEATHGASM, the following exchange occurs between two teenage metalheads after they kill one's demonically possessed father.

"Y'know, it's weird, but I think he would have wanted to go out like this."

"His eyes ripped out, face grinded off, and then head mounted under a car engine?"

"Totally.” Ignites his lighter. “For whom the bell tolls, old man."

These metalheads – Brody (Milo Cawthorne) and Zakk (James Blake) - later fight off Brody's possessed aunt and uncle. They need weapons, and in the bedroom of the holier-than-thou Christian aunt and uncle, who think heavy metal is an abomination, Brody and Zakk find some sex toys.

You know, every movie should strive to show something you've never seen before. I have never in my life seen a couple of headbangers use dildos to fight off demons. Now I have. On that front, DEATHGASM must be considered a success.

 
DEATHGASM ("All spelt in capitals. Lower case is for pussies.") is Evil Dead 2 for the kids who grew up on Beavis and Butthead, absorbed Metalocalypse, and played Brutal Legend until their fingers bled. It's a balls-to-the-wall splatter comedy celebrating heavy metal, dismemberment, mutilation, the spilling of all sorts of bodily fluids not meant to be spilled, teen angst, and dick jokes. Lots and lots of dick jokes.

Do I need to say more? Between the dialogue I've included and the content I described, you're either already giggling yourself silly or shaking your head and wondering why I can't review something normal, like a Hugh Grant movie (then again, have you seen Cloud Atlas or The Lair of the White Worm?).

Brody is the new kid in a small New Zealand town. He's a metalhead, and soon, he and Zakk have formed a band with a couple of nerdy friends (one loves Dungeons and Dragons; the other was once suspended for violating the school CPR dummy). Through a series of circumstances, they come into possession of some sheet music that once played summons bloodthirsty demons that possess almost everyone around them, and it looks like this could be the end of the world. Brutal.

There's also a budding romance with Medina (Kimberley Crossman), a nice girl who begins the movie dating Brody's cousin but drops him when she realizes what a jerk he is and sees Brody's sweet nature beneath the corpse paint. Brody loans her some heavy metal albums, to show her why he gravitates to the genre (on a side note, Anal Cunt has to be the last band I would use to try to impress a pretty girl, but that's me).

DEATHGASM plants its flag more in the black and hardcore realm of heavy metal. Keep your ears peeled for the likes of Emperor, Elm Street, Axeslasher, and Bulletbelt on the soundtrack, although there are shoutouts to Judas Priest, King Diamond, and Metallica. When Zakk shoves a chainsaw through the… posterior of a bad guy, he quips, "Metal up your ass!" which was the original title of Metallica's debut album before record company pressure forced them to change it.

In case you didn’t know.