Dead Mail

Dead Mail

Director: Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy
Country: USA

German Premiere
2024 | 106 min. | English
Subtitles: German SDH
FSK | Nicht geprüft / No clearance

Cast_ Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, Nick Heyman Screenplay_ Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy Camera_ Kyle McConaghy Producer_ Zachary Weil, Brett Arndt Rights_ Contact Light Films

A deadly encounter between two outsiders. A nerve-wracking and original psychological thriller in stylish 80s guise.

Tied up and terrified, a man crawls out of a house and over to a letterbox that stands on a lonely country road, clutching a bloodstained note in his hands. So begins this psychological thriller, shot with extraordinary cinematographic invention in grainy images and a style that harkens back to the 80s. Two outsiders, one a synth engineer and the other a music fan and technology enthusiast, enter into a business partnership. A promising start soon leads to a disappointment with serious consequences. And then there is that letter, which lands in the post office’s department for undeliverable mail, drawing more people into the dangerous dynamic. Long after all hope for a way out has faded, one woman’s tenacity gives the story a new twist.

Director

›Dead Mail‹ is the second feature by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy, a directing and writing duo from Missouri, both of whom are also experienced cinematographers. Their new film screened in the “Midnight Madness” section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

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