Taking part in a Comedy flicks viewing challenge on ICM,I decided to look on Shudder for fitting titles. Spotting a image on the site for a flick for what I had in mind,I got set to cause mayhem.
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Invading the office space with a half-zombie virus, director Joe Lynch & cinematographer Steve Gainer release the rage with a banging Pop Horror appearance of ultra-stylised slick whip-pans and fast cut edits building the surge of energy driving Cho and Cross. Going from the front doors to the top floor, Lynch drills a vibrant Splatter Horror Comedy atmosphere of bright, candy coloured blood sprayed across the screen, and bone-crunching sound effects pulled from Cho changing his office tie for pent-up rebellion.
Working in just one office block for the entire movie, the screenplay by Matias Caruso leaps over the risks of things becoming repetitive, thanks to the cackling End Of Level Boss pushing Cho and Cross forward from each increasingly brutal fight with fellow office staff. Spewing rage at his fellow staff, Cho is set off by Caruso with jet-black satire of the office culture worker drone, sending Cross and Cho into a zombie rage against the senior staff determined to stop them climbing the ladder.
Surrounded by the raging,rather than the walking, dead,Steven Yeun gives a live-wire turn as Cho,whose frustrations over being grounded down by fellow staff into almost becoming one of them, is hammered into pieces by Yeun. Entering the office wanting to challenge a decision staff made, Samara Weaving gives a lovely, Pop Punk performance as Cross, whose goofiness Weaving screws in with a wicked flair of viciousness,as Cross and Cho unleash mayhem.
Mayhem
2017
Action / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Mayhem
2017
Action / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
A virus spreads through an office complex causing white collar workers to act out their worst impulses.
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December 21, 2017 at 09:10 PM
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Mayday mayhem.
Cast Samara Weaving in everything
Mayhem is an awesome movie with a fun premise. It's very entertaining and kept making me smile from how crazy it is. Some good dark humor. Likeable lead actor and actress. Good music too.
Samara Weaving is so damn cool, and it's not just because she's stunningly beautiful. (2 viewings, 8/6/2022)
Talk about a rough day at the office
Attorney Derek Cho (a fine and likeable performance by Steven Yuen) gets wrongfully sacked from his job. Cho's already bad day gets worse when a virus infects people in the workplace that causes the infected to act out their worst and most toxic id impulses.
Director Joe Lynch keeps the enjoyably wild story hurtling along at a brisk pace, maintains a blithely bent, batty, and berserk tone throughout, derives loads of laughs from the wickedly funny sense of twisted black humor, and delivers a handy helping of gloriously excessive gory violence. Matias Caruso's savage script pokes deliciously vicious fun at the ruthless soul-crushing dog-eat-dog-competitive nature of the big business white collar work environment.
Moreover, it's acted with zest by an enthusiastic cast: Samara Weaving as the feisty Melanie Cross, Steven Brand as sadistic slimeball boss John Towers, Caroline Chikezie as the formidable Kara Powell, Kerry Fox as the icy Irene Smythe, Dallas Roberts as the callous Lester McGill, Mark Frost as the burned-out Ewan Niles, Claire Dellamar as venomous secretary Meg, and Andre Eriksen as the brutish Colton Snyder. Steve Gainer's slick cinematography provides an impressive glossy look and makes neat smooth use of an often gliding'n'floating camera. Steven Moore's robust pulsating score does the rousing spot. A total blast.