Guilt, grief, and forgiveness get wrapped up in a Twilight Zone-ish shroud of fate in this downbeat trifle of a crime drama. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Percival (Leon Cain) wants to die, and he just can’t manage to do the job himself. It’s not a matter of him being unable to summon the nerve to kill himself: he has tried, many times. But he always survives, in seemingly miraculous ways. In ways that have doctors shaking their heads in wonder and marveling, “You’re lucky to be alive” (and not noticing that this upsets their patient). So Percival hires professional killer Steve (Steve Mouzakis: I, Frankenstein) to take care of the chore. Still Percival won’t die… and now Percival is convinced there’s a reason for this that...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Percival (Leon Cain) wants to die, and he just can’t manage to do the job himself. It’s not a matter of him being unable to summon the nerve to kill himself: he has tried, many times. But he always survives, in seemingly miraculous ways. In ways that have doctors shaking their heads in wonder and marveling, “You’re lucky to be alive” (and not noticing that this upsets their patient). So Percival hires professional killer Steve (Steve Mouzakis: I, Frankenstein) to take care of the chore. Still Percival won’t die… and now Percival is convinced there’s a reason for this that...
- 7/20/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Steve Mouzakis in The Suicide Theory.
An Australian micro-budgeted thriller about a tortured hit man and his willing target was released in 10 cinemas and online in the Us last week, garnering positive reviews, but is yet to secure distribution at home.
Freestyle Releasing bought the Us rights to The Suicide Theory, the second film from director Dru Brown (his first was 2012 horror-thriller Sleeper), after it won the grand jury prize at the Dances With Film festival in La and the audience award at the Austin Film Festival.
Scripted by Michael J. Kospiah and shot in Brisbane, it stars Steve Mouzakis as Steven, a professional assassin who is asked by a prospective client named Percival (Leon Cain) to take him out.
Percival had tried to bump himself off numerous times without success, sustaining more bodily damage with every attempt, and Steven seems unable to finish the job.
Variety.s Justin Chang...
An Australian micro-budgeted thriller about a tortured hit man and his willing target was released in 10 cinemas and online in the Us last week, garnering positive reviews, but is yet to secure distribution at home.
Freestyle Releasing bought the Us rights to The Suicide Theory, the second film from director Dru Brown (his first was 2012 horror-thriller Sleeper), after it won the grand jury prize at the Dances With Film festival in La and the audience award at the Austin Film Festival.
Scripted by Michael J. Kospiah and shot in Brisbane, it stars Steve Mouzakis as Steven, a professional assassin who is asked by a prospective client named Percival (Leon Cain) to take him out.
Percival had tried to bump himself off numerous times without success, sustaining more bodily damage with every attempt, and Steven seems unable to finish the job.
Variety.s Justin Chang...
- 7/16/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Freestyle Releasing Picks Up Aussie Thriller The Suicide Theory
Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (Fdm) announced today that they have acquired North American theatrical and VOD rights to the award-winning Australian thriller The Suicide Theory, which was directed by Dru Brown. The film stars Steve Mouzakis and Leon Cain and was produced by Brown, Christian McCarty, Jacob McCarty, Dan MacArthur and Melanie Poole. ...
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Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (Fdm) announced today that they have acquired North American theatrical and VOD rights to the award-winning Australian thriller The Suicide Theory, which was directed by Dru Brown. The film stars Steve Mouzakis and Leon Cain and was produced by Brown, Christian McCarty, Jacob McCarty, Dan MacArthur and Melanie Poole. ...
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- 6/3/2015
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Taking the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Dances With Films Festival, "The Suicide Theory" is a success that has caught the eye of Freestyle Releasing. The independent distributor behind the smash hit "God's Not Dead" has acquired the Australian thriller for a summer release and today we have an exclusive clip from the film. Read More: 5 Australian Directors Of Australian New Cinema Directed by Dru Brown, and starring Steve Mouzakis and Leon Cain, the genre pic brings with it a twisty premise: A despondent man hires a demented killer to assist him in suicide, but for some reason, miraculously survives each attempt on his life. And as you'll see in the scene below it's an eerie situation. “The Suicide Theory is one of those special films that comes along,” said Mark Borde, President of Freestyle. “With outstanding performances and an incredible script,...
- 5/29/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
To what length would a desperate and grief-stricken person go to end their life? Several failed attempts at suicide drive Percival (Leon Cain) to hire a professional hitman to kill him in The Suicide Theory, an Australian thriller written by Michael Kospiah and directed by Dru Brown.
Steven Ray (Steve Mouzakis) is dealing with his own personal tragedy -- his pregnant wife Annie (Zoe de Plevitz) was killed in a hit-and-run accident while crossing the street. He's developed such a phobia that he is stricken with seizures any time he attempts to step off a street curb, to the extent of taking cabs just to cross the block. The two men meet when Percival literally jumps from a building and lands on a cab that Steven is in, casing his next victim. What appears to be a chance meeting to Steven is fate to Percival, who appears to be delusional.
Steven Ray (Steve Mouzakis) is dealing with his own personal tragedy -- his pregnant wife Annie (Zoe de Plevitz) was killed in a hit-and-run accident while crossing the street. He's developed such a phobia that he is stricken with seizures any time he attempts to step off a street curb, to the extent of taking cabs just to cross the block. The two men meet when Percival literally jumps from a building and lands on a cab that Steven is in, casing his next victim. What appears to be a chance meeting to Steven is fate to Percival, who appears to be delusional.
- 11/7/2014
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
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