Deathgasm (2015) is a splatter-comedy about two teenage metalheads who unleash hell by playing cursed sheet music.
The name alone is enough to hook me. Deathgasm. Any horror movie that calls itself that has a lot to live up to. And somehow, it actually does. This isn’t just gore and power chords. It’s dildos turned into weapons. It’s corpse paint and ice cream. It’s Walmart being so freaked out by the title that they slapped a shotgun onto the DVD art and renamed it Heavy Metal Apocalypse.
The story’s simple: small-town rejects bullied into the ground, one of them stuck living with his meathead cousin who makes life worse because his girlfriend likes the metalhead better. So what do you do when your cousin is a raging jerk and life sucks? You summon demons with music, of course. And once the needle drops, nothing goes according to plan.
The carnage is both homemade and excessive. Director Jason Lei Howden, a visual effects guy by trade, insisted on practical gore—about 80 liters of it—because fake blood sprayed out of a hose just looks better than any CGI. The result is the kind of messy, sticky violence you’d expect from the land that gave us Peter Jackson’s Braindead. But there’s also this homespun Kiwi charm baked into the madness, like the movie knows it’s swinging way above its $200,000 budget and doesn’t care.
And the soundtrack? This isn’t poser metal. You’ve got Emperor, Nunslaughter, and local legends like Beastwars blasting through the speakers, which only makes the bloodletting feel that much heavier. Add in an axe-wielding babe, a washed-up rock star named Rikki Daggers, and a props department that actually kept a box of “used” sex toys slathered in fake fluids long after filming, and you’ve got something that feels like it was forged in a garage, baptized in beer, and left to rot in a practice space.
The movie might not have been a box office monster, but it became a cult one, with fans calling themselves “Gasmheads” and pushing so hard that a sequel—Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon—is finally happening.
So yeah. Deathgasm. A horror comedy that lives up to its name. And then some.
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