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I’m Too Excited For Mike Mendez’s ‘The Last Heist’
I’ve always been a big fan of indie filmmaker Mike Mendez, who first landed on my horror radar when I rented his Killers on VHS.
Now, after delivering such goodies as The Convent and The Gravedancers, he’s been dabbling in cheesy genre films like Big Ass Spider, Lavalantula and the upcoming Don’t Kill It. While those may be fun, I’ve always wanted more from Mendez. While that’s not meant to be a slap in the face, I think his talents, at times, can be wasted. This is why I’m so, so, so, sooooo excited for The Last Heist, which was announced on his Facebook page.
Above is the incredibly impressive first still from the indie thriller that stars, get this, Henry Rollins (Feast, He Never Died, The Chase), Torrance Coombs, Victoria Pratt (Brotherhood of Blood) and Kristina Klebe (Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Proxy), with Camilla Jackson, Mark Kelly, Nicholas Principe, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Ace Marrero, Zo Zosak, Graham Denman and Lombardo Boyar.
“I always give the advice to young filmmakers that you should always be making movies, at any cost. So I’m taking my own advice and have started production on a super cool, very indie crime thriller,” explained Mendez. “It’s 3 weeks of playing cops and robbers with my friends in downtown L.A.
“Expect a lot of people to shot in the face.”
I have very high hopes for this movie, and expect a powerhouse of a performance out of Rollins.
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.
Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”
In the SXSW 2024 horror film…
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.
“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”
Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.
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