Mayhem
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Derek Cho (Steven Yeun, “The Walking Dead”) is having a really bad day. After being unjustly fired from his job, he discovers that the law firm’s building is under quarantine for a mysterious and dangerous virus. Chaos erupts throughout the office as the victims of the disease begin acting out their wildest impulses. Joining forces with a former client (Samara Weaving, “Ash vs Evil Dead”) who has a grudge of her own, Derek savagely fights tooth and nail to get to the executives on the top floor and settle the score once and for all.
- RLJ Entertainment distributes in the US.
- Will have its world premiere at 2017's SXSW film festival.
- Filmed in Belgrade, Serbia.
- Directed Joe Lynch was quoted saying: "Oddly enough, Mayhem may be my most personal movie. I read this script while I was working a corporate job in an office space I came to detest, very much like Steven Yeun’s character Derek. I liked the job for the most part and it paid the bills, but that environment can be difficult to traverse, especially when you’re being tasked to be a ‘creative’ in what’s usually a creatively averse environment. Steven’s journey is every much a reflection of my own, the question of, what’s considered success today? Does success equal happiness and satisfaction? And from my perspective, the current corporate culture is a petri dish of passive aggression and non-confrontation — so what happens if you strip that down and let people act out their true states of mind, unleash their inhibitions?. And, frankly, who doesn’t want to see a bunch of white collared legal douchebags tear one another apart? We definitely set out to make a darkly fun movie, a cathartic rollercoaster ride, but there are themes that run deeper for us personally. I think we worked a lot of issues out with this film!" (3/13/17)
- Fans may remember actor Steven Yeun as "Glenn" from AMC's The Walking Dead.
- Directed by Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, Knights of Badassdom).
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