Deathgasm II: Goremageddon

Ten years after Deathgasm’s over the top gross, gore and grind, writer and director Jason Lei Howden has returned with a follow up.

Brodie (Milo Cawthorne) is living the life of a wretch waking up with puke all over his beard and best friend Giles (Daniel Cresswell) in his underpants after a night of heavy drinking and drugs. He’s barely moved on in the world since the death of his bandmates Zakk (James Joshua Blake) and Dion (Sam Berkley) in the previous film, where Giles lost an arm.

He’s further tormented that his girlfriend Medina (Kimberley Crossman) has shacked up with preposterous rocker Jesse Dead (Kieran Charnock). Then there his total inability to understand that the riffs and soaring guitar solos in his head are staying just there. To pile the pressure on there’s his case manager Jonno (Harrison Keefe) who has no time for fantasies and is gleefully waiting for an excuse to cut off his welfare payments.

Several times Brodie casts his eye over the scroll that contains the Black Hymn, wondering, what if. That wonder becomes a reality when he learns that his home town of Greypoint is hosting a Noizequest contest, with a cash prize.

Driven by desperation, his temptation is too much and with the Black Hymn resurrects Zakk and Dion and hopefully, the band. At this point they are grunting zombies only sated by human flesh though as they consume more, their wits such as they had them, begin to return.

They have however changed with Zakk becoming more pensive and a vegan, while Dion develops plans for world domination with a zombie army.

What follows is class example of gross out no limits horror filmmaking. So the viewer is presented with every bodily fluid available flowing copiously from anywhere on the body. There’s a very funny sequence with male appendages being subjected to a whack a mole experience rather than the expected glory hole.

And yet within all this blunt trauma humour there are nuggets buried so deep that only metalheads will understand, for example there’s a reference to grindcore fans hygiene.

The enjoyment of Deathgasm will principally depend on your sense of humour and not so much if you enjoy horror or metal music, though both are intrinsic to the film and characters. Nevertheless it would be a hard soul that doesn’t find at least one or two laughs in the film.

Deathgasm II: Goremageddon received its UK premiere at FrightFest Halloween 2025.