William Brown (Jonah Ray) is stuck. He wants to be a prog musician and that’s not something that’s going to make you rich but it might make you creatively fulfilled, as long as you realize that no one else is going to get the music you play. He’s working at a studio for Scott (Thomas Lennon), engineering a session of druggy Caleb Bang Jansen (Ryan Kattner) and being berated for everything he does. At least he has his old videos of Swig (Jon Daly, a yinzer) to inspire him.
Home isn’t much better. While his wife Emily (Kiran Deol) is supportive, he also has to deal with his landlady (Randee Heller, Alice from Soap and Daniel LaRusso’s mom) making him fix the fuse box, a rampaging Daryl the pig (played by Kosher the pig) and a new neighbor named Vlad (Alex Winter), who won’t stop blasting music, moving furniture and screaming. It’s enough to push him to do something insane.
After failing to make Vlad stop being so horrible — he calls the cops at one point and his wife ends up liking the old man — he tries to talk to him. It ends up in a fistfight and Vlad is accidentally impaled. That’s when William starts hearing the voice of Swig, telling him how to get rid of the body, which ends up being more than one body. It ends up being a lot of bodies.
Yet despite becoming a mass murderer, the good news is that William finally finishes his album and becomes a success. Well, he’s in jail. But you get to see a torso with guts hanging out play drums and some of the craziest prog instruments ever.
Director Josh Forbes comes from music videos and that’s a good thing. He’s working from a fun script by Mike Benner, Jared Logan and Charles A. Pieper and some wild effects by Bill Corso and Ben Gojer. Plus, seeing Alex Winter in a movie makes me so happy and he makes the most out of both of his roles.
This is the kind of movie that doesn’t need overthought and just is out to entertain you. It succeeds beyond expectation.