Terror Films has picked up the North American distribution rights for Mister Limbo, a new horror-comedy movie starring Valley Girl’s Cameron Dye alongside Hugo de Sousa and Vig Norris. The film tells the story of two strangers who wake up in the middle of the desert with no memory of anything, including their own names. Are they dead, or did they just party too hard at Burning Man? See what the film is like by watching the official trailer below.
The movie is directed and written by Robert G. Putka. It is produced by Joseph Albert Battaglia, Vig Norris, Robert G. Putka, and Benjamin Measor. Hugo de Sousa, Ern Gerardo, Frank Brown, Mark Reeb, and Jennifer Kennedy executive produced. You can read the official logline below.
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Two strangers wake up in the middle of the desert with no memory of anything – including their names. Are they dead? Or did they just party too hard? A warm buddy film at heart – but hopefully also a rumination on existential themes such as regret, cynicism, faith, and empathy.
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As Putka has explained in a press release, the concept for Mister Limbo came to him after suffering a debilitating breakdown. He says that years of panic attacks and generalized anxiety came to a head just as he was about to release his first feature film, MAD, in 2016. At the time, he was in a hotel room in Las Vegas when what should have been a moment of vindication turned into the filmmaker’s “own personal hell.”
“I had the mother of panic attacks,” he said. “A real nasty one lasting at least 5 hours, after which I finally, thankfully, passed out due to a heavy dosing of Xanax. But during those five hours, I alternated pacing the floor and curling up in the fetal position on the bed. I felt like I was going to die or, at the very least, collapse. This panic attack was different from all the other ones I’d encountered and learned to cope with. Upon returning to Cleveland a few days later, the realization that I was far from out of the woods became painfully apparent.”
He added, “Five years later, I still haven’t fully healed from that experience. I still deal with physical remnants of that bottoming out, some of which have become chronic. I also still struggle trying to maintain a healthy mind, as anxiety is a daily stumbling block to living a ‘normal’ life, whatever that even is anymore. But with that said, I’m in a good place spiritually and philosophically. I feel this has given me the type of clarity necessary to take my own crises of faith, fear, and regret, and inject these ideas into a story that I hope is both personal and cathartic as it is reflective and universal.
In a lot of ways, I’m the same person I was. In some cases, worse. But in a few ways, I’m better than I ever was. I’m certainly more hopeful, and that counts for a lot.”
The succinct version: I made this film after having emerged from a tumultuous period in my life,” concludes Putka. “It helped me to better understand the power of forgiveness – both of oneself and others – and how it frees us to move on to better things. Maybe it can do the same for others.”
Mister Limbo arrives on Sept. 2, 2022, courtesy of Terror Films.
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