{"id":27802,"date":"2018-04-12T23:26:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27802"},"modified":"2018-04-12T23:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:26:39","slug":"you-have-to-see-this-mayhem-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/12\/you-have-to-see-this-mayhem-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have to See This! Mayhem (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Samara Weaving is a young actress quickly on the rise to super stardom. She\u2019s not just sexy but can manage to tuck away that sexiness in favor of portraying characters of depth and complexity. In \u201cThe Babysitter\u201d she was this very hot Satanic beast, in \u201cThree Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri,\u201d she was an adorable pixy, and in \u201cMayhem\u201d she\u2019s a go getter officer drone forced in to a blood soaked battle.<\/p>\n

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While the other office horror movie \u201cThe Belko Experiment\u201d was sadistic nonsense, \u201cMayhem\u201d wears its intentions on its sleeve as pure satire with over the top violence and some great performances all around. It doesn\u2019t hurt that some of its roots are mired in \u201cThe Walking Dead,\u201d either. Steve Yeun is great as Derek Cho, an office executive who hopes to get promoted and revels in the fact that he\u2019s spent much of his life stepping over other co-workers to get where he is.<\/p>\n

After a botched deal involving his company, Derek becomes the unfortunate scape goat and is unceremoniously fired from his position. As he\u2019s preparing to be forced out of the building, the office high rise is shut down and locked up by authorities on the outside. In this near future there\u2019s been a spread of a mysterious chemical known as ID-7 which inspires the infected to gradually become ever more violent and aggressive, acting out their inner desires.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With Derek stuck in the building, he and his co-workers are on twenty four hour lockdown, and all hell breaks loose. With Derek embracing the infection he decides to use the opportunity to go up to the CEO offices and confront them, hoping to plead his case. But that proves difficult as he faces off against his co-workers, all of whom he\u2019s more than ready to hack to pieces to prove his point. Yeun is in full force here, portraying a rather despicable character who is less a hero, and more just a ruthless sap who uses the chemical leak as a means of helping him reach the offices of his company\u2019s executives.<\/p>\n

Director Joe Lynch is no fan of subtly with \u201cMayhem,\u201d as Derek literally has to fight his way to the top to get his voice heard. Yeun chews in to the character, screaming and hollering at every single opportunity and he seems to be having a great time with the character. \u201cMayhem\u201d delivers in what it promises with a lot of gore, grue and splatter, and Yeun teamed with Weaving, makes for a delightfully despicable pairing of people that just want to make a point and nothing else.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the process they just happen to get in to a battle royale with other officer workers involving power tools and office supplies. It\u2019s almost like an X rated \u201cOffice Space.\u201d Joe Lynch takes a weapon and puts it in a place where it\u2019s nothing but a powder keg of repression and resentment. \u201cMayhem\u201d is just the bit of catharsis for the working class schmuck and I predict many a future screenings of it alongside 1999\u2019s \u201cOffice Space.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the DVD and Blu-Ray there\u2019s \u201cCreating Mayhem,\u201d a twelve minute making of production with interviews, insight in to the plot and characters, and footage. The Blu-Ray features an audio commentary by director Joe Lynch, director of Photography Steve Gainer, Editor Josh Ethier, all of whom discuss the technical side of \u201cMayhem.\u201d Finally there\u2019s \u201cThe Collected Works of Derek Cho,\u201d a fun two minute slideshow with artwork created by character Derek Cho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samara Weaving is a young actress quickly on the rise to super stardom. She\u2019s not just sexy but can manage to tuck away that sexiness in favor of portraying characters of depth and complexity. In \u201cThe Babysitter\u201d she was this very hot Satanic beast, in \u201cThree Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri,\u201d she was an adorable pixy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-packed-april","category-yhts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27807,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27802\/revisions\/27807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}