The Suicide Theory
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| Directed by | Dru Brown |
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| Written by | Michael J. Kospiah |
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| Music by | Rolf Meyer |
| Cinematography | Dan MacArthur |
| Edited by | Ahmad Halimi |
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Seven8 Media
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| Distributed by | Freestyle Releasing |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $6,434 (US) |
The Suicide Theory is a 2014 Australian thriller film directed by Dru Brown and written by Michael J. Kospiah. It stars Steve Mouzakis and Leon Cain, who play a hit man and the suicidal man who hires him, respectively. It premiered on June 4, 2014 at the Dances With Films film festival in Los Angeles, California. Freestyle Releasing released it in the US and Canada on July 10, 2015.
As Steven discusses his wife's pregnancy with a friend who owns a store, a rude man interrupts them. Steven ambushes the man outside and murders him. Shortly afterward, his wife Annie is killed in a hit-and-run accident as they cross the street together. Steven is left with traumatic flashbacks whenever he attempts to cross a street. Three years later, Steven works as a contract killer. As he prepares to kill his next target, Frank Dubois, a man falls from the building on to the cab he is in, setting off another panic attack.
Having seen Steven before passing out, the suicidal man, Percival, tracks down Steven. Percival explains that he has attempted suicide countless times and has consistently failed, surviving overwhelming odds, and these attempts have left him heavily scarred. Percival believes he is cursed with the inability to take his own life, and his meeting Steven is meant to be. He pays Steven to kill him. Steven, scoffing at the idea, gives Percival a chance to reconsider, then shoots him in the chest. When Percival survives both this and another shooting from Steven, which leaves him blinded in one eye, Steven accepts it is more than mere luck.
Intrigued by the challenge, Steven probes Percival for clues to defeat the curse. Percival reveals that he is a gay man and that part of his suicidal tendencies come from the death of his boyfriend, Christopher. The two men slowly bond over their shared loss.
Steven hires a gay man to sleep with Percival, hoping that an emotional high may make him mortal; this too fails, and Percival is disgusted when Steven murders the other man. As they consider their next course of action, Percival flirts with a friendly bartender. They end up at the bartender's house, where the barkeep and several of his homophobic friends severely beat up Percival. After learning about this, Steven feigns homosexuality at the same bar and allows himself to fall into the bartender's scam. Steven kills all of the bartender's friends and shoots the bartender in the groin. Percival is once again disgusted by Steven's behavior, but Steven insists that Percival must have wanted this to happen at some level, or else he would not have given Steven the bartender's address.
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