Mike Mendez

Directing

Mike Mendez

Born 1973-01-01 · Los Angeles, California, USA

A native to Los Angeles, Mike Mendez was in the backyard making movies since the age of 10. At the age of 23, Mike made his first feature film "Killers," which was accepted into the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. The film was picked up by Alpine Pictures, who distributed the feature in the U.S. The film also received a worldwide theatrical release. He followed that up with the horror comedy "The Convent," which was also accepted into the Sundance Film Festival in 2000, as well as over 30 other film festivals worldwide. The film was released by Lionsgate in the U.S. In 2002, he produced a documentary for Universal Television and Showtime entitled "Masters of Horror," featuring interviews with some of the genre's most legendary filmmakers. In 2006, Mike's film "The Gravedancers" premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released in theaters nationally by Lionsgate & After Dark Films as part of "8 Films To Die For". Along with producing short films for X-box and working on the television series "Beavis & Butthead", Mike's newest film is "Big Ass Spider!" for Epic Pictures, which premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. Starring "Heroes" alumni Greg Grunberg, it had a limited theatrical worldwide.

Acting credits

Malignant poster
6.7

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

Malignant

2021

Chillerama poster
5.7

It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was a Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.

Chillerama

2011

The Devil’s Trap poster
7.3

In the quiet nighttime corridors of a city hospital, Abigail (Nistratova) consoles her traumatized brother, Billy (Davi) who is now a paraplegic. Billy suffers from horrible nightmares in which he revisits his childhood, where we meet his alcoholic and violent father. Sharing Billy’s hospital room is a dying man, Mr. Cohen (Dern) who seems to know everything about Billy and Abigail. There’s also another horrific presence roaming in the hospital terrifying patients and staff alike.

The Devil’s Trap

2024

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NR

Two celebrity hosts show a horror film and tell trivia related to the production.

FEARnet's Movies with More Brains

2011

The Horror Crowd poster
5.7

Revealing, intimate documentary spotlighting the Hollywood horror community.

The Horror Crowd

2020

Sharknado: Feeding Frenzy poster
4.8

What began as another Syfy creature feature has now become an important piece of pop culture - poised to take over the entire world.

Sharknado: Feeding Frenzy

2015

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NR

A feature-length documentary about fantasy and horror films produced by female filmmakers, including interviews with professionals from ten countries.

Fantastic Women

All the Creatures Were Stirring poster
5.0

When an awkward date on Christmas Eve leads a couple into a strange theater, they're treated to a bizarre and frightening collection of Christmas stories, featuring a wide ensemble of characters doing their best to avoid the horrors of the holidays. From boring office parties and last-minute shopping, to vengeful stalkers and immortal demons, there's plenty out there to fear this holiday season.

All the Creatures Were Stirring

2018

Tales of the Uncanny poster
7.0

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Tales of the Uncanny

2020

The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen poster
6.2

Fifty lesser-known horror flicks hailed by critics and genre fans as "absolute must-sees" are given the spotlight with fun, engaging commentary from journalists, directors, actors and critics in a countdown like no other. Stalkers, monsters, slashers, evil dolls, terrorized babysitters, holiday maniacs, mannequins, eerie motels, even giant rats... they're ALL featured in "The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen!"

The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen

2014

Terror Toons 3 poster
5.1

Picking up exactly where the original left off. This 3rd installment tells the tale of Cindy and her little sister Candy fighting the good fight with the help of their friends against evil Dr. Carnage and his abominable sidekick, Max Assassin. Enter the darken, kaleidoscope colored world of the cartoon dimension where anything is possible. Where everyone is subject to a blood splattered crazy cartoon death

Terror Toons 3

2015

The Black Box poster
NR

Eight year old Bobby is a strange boy. Between spying on his teenage sister's sexual exploits and peeping at his prostitute mother in the nude, Bobby loves to watch the midnight horror shows. But when the host of Bobby's favorite show begins speaking to him directly, and the people in his life dreadfully appear to him on television, the lines of reality and fiction begin to blur.

The Black Box

2010

Beyond Brotherhood poster
8.0

Two young siblings ended up living on the streets, having nothing left but their love. It's a story about survival, second chances and second falls, with an unexpected turn at the end.

Beyond Brotherhood

2017

The Cult of Ichi poster
NR

Documentary on Ichi the Killer, The Cult of Ichi, features a number of folks – writers, producers, directors, actors, magazine editors, authors- from the horror genre. - screenanarchy.com

The Cult of Ichi

2007

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NR

Several people, cursed to turn into monstrous feral beasts, find themselves pursued through Germany by unknown, violent forces.

Timo Rose's Beast

2009

Behind the camera

Don't Kill It poster
6.0

Demon hunter Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.

Don't Kill It

2016

Big Ass Spider! poster
5.6

When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.

Big Ass Spider!

2013

The Last Heist poster
4.4

A bank heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer. Trapping the well-organized team of bank robbers in the building, the killer is now picking them off one by one.

The Last Heist

2016

Tales of Halloween poster
5.7

Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.

Tales of Halloween

2015

Tales of Halloween poster
5.7

Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.

Tales of Halloween

2015

Tales of Halloween poster
5.7

Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.

Tales of Halloween

2015

The Convent poster
5.5

A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.

The Convent

2000

Satanic Hispanics poster
5.8

When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.

Satanic Hispanics

2022

Satanic Hispanics poster
5.8

When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.

Satanic Hispanics

2022

Killers poster
5.2

Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.

Killers

1996

Killers poster
5.2

Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.

Killers

1996

The Devil’s Trap poster
7.3

In the quiet nighttime corridors of a city hospital, Abigail (Nistratova) consoles her traumatized brother, Billy (Davi) who is now a paraplegic. Billy suffers from horrible nightmares in which he revisits his childhood, where we meet his alcoholic and violent father. Sharing Billy’s hospital room is a dying man, Mr. Cohen (Dern) who seems to know everything about Billy and Abigail. There’s also another horrific presence roaming in the hospital terrifying patients and staff alike.

The Devil’s Trap

2024

The Gravedancers poster
5.8

After a night of drunken exploits, Allison, Harris, and Kira are chased and terrorized by the ghosts of a child pyromaniac, an ax murderer, and a rapist.

The Gravedancers

2006

Lavalantula poster
4.8

Giant lava breathing tarantulas – Lavalantulas – erupt out of ancient volcanos in the Santa Monica Mountains, raining death and destruction upon Los Angeles. With the City of Angels on the verge of incineration, only a washed up ‘90s action hero actor stands in the way of this monstrous swarm of bloodthirsty creatures who burn their victims alive.

Lavalantula

2015

Lavalantula poster
4.8

Giant lava breathing tarantulas – Lavalantulas – erupt out of ancient volcanos in the Santa Monica Mountains, raining death and destruction upon Los Angeles. With the City of Angels on the verge of incineration, only a washed up ‘90s action hero actor stands in the way of this monstrous swarm of bloodthirsty creatures who burn their victims alive.

Lavalantula

2015

Bimbo Movie Bash poster
3.4

Hell hath no fury like a bimbo scorned! For decades, the blond and the beautiful have been billboarded, belittled and bad-mouthed. Now, a massive squadron of the lightheaded lovelies is about to exact the ultimate revenge on the chauvinists of the Earth. See all of your favorite femmes return to the small screen, in this cleverly crafted compilation of scenes from the most bodacious Bimbo movies of all time!

Bimbo Movie Bash

1997

Bimbo Movie Bash poster
3.4

Hell hath no fury like a bimbo scorned! For decades, the blond and the beautiful have been billboarded, belittled and bad-mouthed. Now, a massive squadron of the lightheaded lovelies is about to exact the ultimate revenge on the chauvinists of the Earth. See all of your favorite femmes return to the small screen, in this cleverly crafted compilation of scenes from the most bodacious Bimbo movies of all time!

Bimbo Movie Bash

1997

Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern poster
NR

DERNSIE is an intimate portrait of Bruce Dern—tireless, uncompromising, and one of the last living legends of his generation—whose endurance has shaped both a turbulent life and one of Hollywood’s most enduring careers. A relentless runner on and off screen, Dern has outlasted the very industry that defined him.

Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

2026

Masters of Horror poster
7.8

Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interviews with the directors, behind the scenes footage and clips from popular horror films, and hosted by Bruce Campbell, star of The Evil Dead (1981).

Masters of Horror

2002

Doggie Heaven poster
5.1

The creative team behind the smash hit "Saw" films, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, tell the story of a young man who is having a dog of a day. Hes just been shot dead, but his real problems are only just beginning due to a clerical error that has sent him to the wrong heaven.

Doggie Heaven

2008

Tales from the Crypt: New Year's Shockin' Eve poster
7.5

An exclusive all-new interstitial content for the first time in 15 years. See the Cryptkeeper take a blast through the past, decomposing the best of the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s, on his way to welcoming in 2013.

Tales from the Crypt: New Year's Shockin' Eve

2012

The Traveler poster
6.0

A police raid uncovers a chained, lone survivor in a home filled with numerous, recently massacred Latinos. Questioned by detectives Gibbons (Sonya Eddy) and Arden (Greg Grunberg), “The Traveler” begins to share bizarre and fascinating stories of people he’s encountered.

The Traveler

2022

San La Muerte poster
NR

San La Muerte, the folk saint of death, has been on The Traveler’s heels for a long time, and now it’s go time.

San La Muerte

2022