DON'T KILL IT (Mike Mendez, 2016)

[Jox]

It's sad these people can be given exclusives and be treated like a news source these days.

It seems the more touting your headlines are, the more you'll get noticed (not mentioning getting credit for stuff found by others).

Just by seeing this I browsed a couple of articles that are gossips not related to action movies with even user comments that share the same kind of sexism and homophobia...

[Jox]

Lundgren is speaking via phone from his latest film set in Mississippi, a low-budget horror movie called Don’t Kill It. “It’s about a demon that possesses people,” he explains. “The way it transfigures and moves from person to person is that if you kill the thing, it then becomes you. So that basically complicates things.” For the veteran actor who’s headlined more than 60 films (most of them action films of the B-movie variety), it’s a rare first. “I’ve never done a horror movie,” he says, “but I really liked the script.” His synopsis is succinct: “Everybody more or less gets possessed in the whole picture. Everybody kills and gets killed by each other, and it just transfers that damn demon around until I get it at the end.”

http://www.vman.com/site/content/5464/v ... h-lundgren

[bomaz]

They're making pick up shots these days.

[TEMIRLAN]

What is pick up shots?

[Jox]

Additional footage filmed after "principal photography", it can be anything from insert shots (cutaways and close ups of certain details) to scenes or sequences that are set at another location or another time in the film (like this seems to be in this case). "Pick-ups" are not the same as "reshoots".

[bomaz]

It's cool to see that Tony Messenger (Dolph's double for quite a time now) plays a little part in the movie (I won't post the photo or tell what it is because it's spoilerish, but if you want you can check his facebook).

[Jox]

Cannes Film Market screenings
http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/canne ... ike_mendez

Screening times during Cannes Film Festival

Wednesday, 11 May / Gray 4 / 1:30pm

Thursday, 12 May / Palais K / 4:00pm

Friday, 13 May / Lerins 1 / 12:00 pm

[Jox]

Nobody says anything about this advance artwork ?

[savagesketch]

Looks promising... Even though it's low budget, hopefully it's an eerie, dark horror flick, while still allowing D to be the badass.

[Moltisanti]

Decent art. Does he use some sort of odd gun in the flick? Can't tell what's going on in the barrel.

[DRC2013]

It's a nice looking poster. I'm looking forward to this one.

I watched director Mike Mendez's earlier movie Big Ass Spider on Netflix and enjoyed it. It was a nice mix of horror and action and even buddy comedy.

It was also fairly big in scale for what I assume was a limited budget, even though the CGI was hit and miss. But it certainly was a notch or two above the usual SYFY-channel schlock.

[Jox]

Decent art. Does he use some sort of odd gun in the flick? Can't tell what's going on in the barrel.

My guess is that it might be projecting some sort of net or something or some weird ammo to catch "demons" :

Mike Mendez
4 mins · Lexington, MS, United States ·

Cleaning up the town. ‪#‎DontKillIt‬ Day 8

[Nathan]

Hope they use this or something similar for the DVD cover, jeez it's actually better than 90% of DTV DVD covers as it is.

[Jox]

We are to be featured in the new cult-film “Don’t Kill It!”. Directed by Mike Mendez and featuring Dolph Lundgren among others.

- The Lost Poets
http://www.prog-sphere.com/interviews/i ... ost-poets/

LC: What’s it like working on a horror film? Are the sets kept light and fun? I imagine they’re not as serious and emotionally-demanding as a drama might be?

Miles Doleac: In my experience, those sets have been fun. I particularly enjoyed working with Mike Mendez on his Don’t Kill It (with Dolph Lundgren), which we shot in Mississippi in December (2015). It’s infectious when a filmmaker truly finds joy in what he or she is doing and that’s certainly true of Mike. He also understands that genre in a way that few people do I think. It’s that fine line of not allowing the movie to take itself too seriously, while still being focused and serious about the process and execution of production, and, yes, having a few laughs along the away.

http://leglesscorpse.us/containments-mi ... interview/

[bomaz]

Yeah, The Lost Poets music would suit the movie pretty well (as I assume they would score the movie ?).