matt mercer

I try to come up with a clever title for new posts, but lack of creativity due to tiredness is prohibiting anything better.  :0  But, my exhaustion is well worth it and undercut by excitement.  It’s good to be working, and I’m having a blast here in Colorado Springs, home of Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, and great breakfast at Adams Mountain Cafe in Manitou Springs (if I could mail some pancakes to everyone I would… man they are good).

The last three days have been jam-packed with the fast-paced, invigorating production schedule of the new thriller on which I’m working, a feature film titled Kessler’s Lab.  It’s a sci-fi psychological thriller involving clones, drugs, and other fun sci fi stuff.  Oh yeah, the good stuff.  We will continue to shoot for a couple more weeks, and production mostly takes place within the walls of a creepy but inspiring abandoned hospital.  It’s VERY old.  Just poking around between takes in this place, you get a sense of mortality: One is accosted with the dusty technological and medical relics of days gone by, aspects that really add to the visual atmosphere being captured by our great Director of Photography, Patrick McGinley.  Also, we are shooting mainly in what was once the youth tuberculosis ward… yeesh.  It’s dark, it’s dusty, and the building makes a continuous symphony of eerie sounds- creaking, clanging, and groaning- that make it very easy to dial in performance in the environment.  It’s the real deal.

I’m also fortunate to be acting alongside some talented people, cast and crew alike, and I look forward to sharing more about this movie in the coming weeks.  I’m slowly adding more details about the film here: Kessler’s Lab.

Also, The Poisoning, the road trip thriller I did last winter, received some solid press this week from great horror sites.  Sweet!  Big THANK YOU to Bloody-Disgusting, Dread Central, Fangoria, and Arrow in the Head for the coverage!  Here are the links to the articles:

AITH | Trailer, poster and stills for indie horror effort The Poisoning

‘THE POISONING’ reminds us why traveling with friends is so fun

Another Road Trip Goes Awry in The Poisoning

BD Horror News – ‘The Poisoning’a Road Trip From Hell

Hope everyone’s surviving the summer heat these days.

A couple of new announcements this week:  I acted in some national spots last December with a great team, and we’re all reuniting to do a new spot tomorrow that will continue the campaign.  The last experience was fantastic, one of the best commercial experiences I’ve had, and I’m very happy to be doing another one.

Also, the road trip horror film I did earlier this year, The Poisoning, now has official poster art and an official trailer to boot!  Scroll down to check them out, along with the new press release.

Press release: First Official Trailer and Art for Indie Road Trip Thriller THE POISONING

I booked a Dell internet spot this past week, which shot last Saturday.  It was good fun.  I played an anxious exec who’s financial presentation and video conference falls apart in front of a large table of Japanese businessmen, but a super cool Dell tech guy comes to my rescue- if I had a nickel for every time I’ve found myself faced with that scenario…  Thank you to Super! Alright! (prod company), Dell, House (casting), and my super awesome agent Laura Bowman, for getting me on board for the spot.

Also, in other good news of the past week, I’ve officially signed on to play the lead in the indie sci-fi psychological thriller Kessler’s Lab, a feature film which shoots in Colorado next month.  I’m pretty excited because it shoots at a badass creepy location (also very close to an area where I used to live off and on as a teenager) in Colorado Springs, and it’s a really interesting story exploring scientific morality, and what it means to be human.  I can’t say too much about it yet, but the plot of Kessler involves illegal drug testing, cloning, and death… if I had a nickel for every… wait, I used that already.

More on the film, now in pre-production, can be found here:  Kessler’s Lab