A reimagining of mental illness through horror films and heavy metal.
The Life of Dan is a hybrid film about the complications of brotherly love and working through the horrors of the past. The film explores past traumas between brothers Dan and Jeremy through their shared love of horror films. As the brothers work through unsettled moments from their childhoods, building towards Dan’s temporary hospitalization, they transform these experiences into their own horror film about mental illness, traumatic memory, and the dangers of the filmmaking process itself.