Experiencing Interruptions?

Let Me Buy Your Death

This film is responsible for at least one person's death. Will you be next?

  • Malt Schlitzmann
    Director
  • Malt Schlitzmann
    Writer
  • Corey Lehman
    Producer
    The Clark Jones Story
  • Malt Schlitzmann
    Producer
  • Mike Sullivan
    Key Cast
    "John"
  • Findlee Abraham
    Key Cast
    "The Stranger"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    thriller, arthouse, Horror
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    3,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Sony S-LOG3
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Malt Schlitzmann

At summer camp, I was the only 13 year old who managed to chug a quart of chocolate milk without puking and I’m proud to say I take this same approach to every endeavor I set out on. At any instant I can perform the original opening theme from Space Jam with 80% accuracy OR BETTER. If you ran a forum between the years 2003-2012 you banned me multiple times. Malt is a satirical writer, screenwriter, poet and now director!

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Director Statement

The thing that will kill you physically exists, right now. The drunk driver is rehearsing the drive that erases your whole family. The truck that crushes your skull just rolled off the production line. The tumor in your brain is an as-yet unrealized miscode in your genetic sequence. The diet that will kill you is the diet you are eating today.
Most of these problems can be solved with money. Delayed indefinitely if not cured outright. Death is sold to us every day, in a thousand different forms. Why, then, can it not be bought from us? Literally, not metaphysically. Does the marketplace not demand the ability to purchase a worker's death? Not merely dead peasant insurance, if a company saves X million a year by including lead in children's meals, why can investors not buy the misery this act would inflict instead of allowing it to pass?
When a building includes more low-income housing than legally required, are they not purchasing the homelessness of those residents? Maximized profit yields maximized immiseration, meaning the hunt for profit itself creates an additional opportunity for profit: The Misery Market.
Every problem in your life can be solved with money. Most of them were created by money, generally the absence thereof. Even the wealthy can cure their (largely voluntary) misery through the judicious redistribution of the very wealth that plagues them.
Unrelated but we should name industrial accidents after the CEOs who caused them.