After his mother gets locked up for a drug-addicted rampage, heavy metal enthusiast Brodie is packed off to a rural New Zealand town to live with his evangelistic uncle and obnoxious cousin. It's a seriously uncool situation with only two redeeming features.
The first of these is Brodie's beautiful high school classmate Medina, who actually seems to like him. The second is Zakk, a fellow metalhead with whom Brodie forms a garage band. If truth be told, Zakk's a bit of a jerk at times, but Brodie's not exactly spoiled for choices when it comes to friends.
Things take a turn for the weird when Zakk and Brodie stumble across some ancient sheets of music that used to belong to a renowned heavy metal musician. This is actually the Black Hymn, which will grant demonic power to those who play it. And after a particularly fierce beating from his toxic cousin, Brodie's in the mood to not feel powerless any more.
Of course, invoking demonic power is by definition a bad idea, and soon the sleepy town's streets are awash in both gore and demon-possessed locals. Now it's up to Brodie and his friends to try and prevent the literal apocalypse, armed only with sex toys, chainsaws, and a blistering guitar solo or three.
Deathgasm is clearly following in the in the comedy-horror splatterpunk style of early Peter Jackson, before he started churning out turgid, 94 hour long CGI-fests. It features a great deal of over the top gore, gross out comedy, and juvenile wackiness (e.g. the use of sex toys as weapons). If you are in the target audience for such fare, you will likely enjoy it: I did, though I do feel it loses steam a bit in its final half hour. The film's only answer to how to keep building seems to be to throw more absurd gore on screen, and there comes a point where that gets a bit played out.
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