Mercies May

Directing

Mercies May

Place of birth

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Mercies May is a Minneapolis-based horror writer-director whose work uses genre to explore trauma, grief, and power dynamics, often where those forces intersect. He has directed more than 160 independent music videos, developing a highly visual, rhythm-driven approach to filmmaking. He has also worked as a freelance screenwriter, including co-writing an adaptation of August Prize-winning novel They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears with author Johannes Anyuru. In addition, he served as director of photography on Stage, the Midwest Emmy Award-winning TPT/PBS music documentary series. His latest short film, A Shadow in the Corner of the Room, explores entropy, isolation, and aging through t…

Known for

Behind the camera

A Shadow in the Corner of the Room poster
NR

Down-on-her-luck nurse, Avery, dismisses a care home resident's warnings of a shadowy presence as dementia...until it begins to turn its attention to her.

A Shadow in the Corner of the Room

2026

A Shadow in the Corner of the Room poster
NR

Down-on-her-luck nurse, Avery, dismisses a care home resident's warnings of a shadowy presence as dementia...until it begins to turn its attention to her.

A Shadow in the Corner of the Room

2026

A Shadow in the Corner of the Room poster
NR

Down-on-her-luck nurse, Avery, dismisses a care home resident's warnings of a shadowy presence as dementia...until it begins to turn its attention to her.

A Shadow in the Corner of the Room

2026

Honor's Half-Life poster
NR

When a teenage daughter's ex military father brings her to help an old friend from his unit, she discovers the gruesome secret he's had to keep. Now she finds herself in a life or death situation that none of her father's training could have ever prepared her for.

Honor's Half-Life

2024

Honor's Half-Life poster
NR

When a teenage daughter's ex military father brings her to help an old friend from his unit, she discovers the gruesome secret he's had to keep. Now she finds herself in a life or death situation that none of her father's training could have ever prepared her for.

Honor's Half-Life

2024

Trade for Print poster
NR

Compromising photographs and blackmail draw supermodel Eva back to her hometown, and bitter former collaborator Tyler. As old tensions re-emerge, he introduces her to a mysterious camera that captures more than just images.

Trade for Print

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Trade for Print poster
NR

Compromising photographs and blackmail draw supermodel Eva back to her hometown, and bitter former collaborator Tyler. As old tensions re-emerge, he introduces her to a mysterious camera that captures more than just images.

Trade for Print

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I Used to be You poster
NR

After a dramatic encounter in a parking garage, a man struggles to shake the creeping feeling that someone is still after him.

I Used to be You

2021

The Last Fare poster
NR

On a bleak winter night, a rideshare driver picks up a stranded teen during curfew. As a creeping suspicion takes hold that he may be responsible for a string of local killings---and might be capable of it again before the night is through---the teen flees into the icy woods to prevent further harm, only to come face to face with something vast, alien, and beyond human understanding.

The Last Fare

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