Occupation Film director | Years active 2013–present | |
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Movies Carnage Park, Darling, Pod, Psychopaths, Deathly Similar Michael Villar, Pat Healy, Larry Fessenden, Lauren Ashley Carter, Ashley Bell | ||
Mickey Keating (born 1990 or 1991) is an American film director and writer. His work includes Ritual, Pod, Darling, Carnage Park, and the upcoming film Psychopaths.
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Career
Keating interned at Blumhouse when he was a teenager. His feature directing debut, the horror film Ritual, was produced by Eric Fleischmann, a friend who was also a former intern there. His next two films, Pod, a science fiction-horror film, and Darling, a psychological horror film, were shot nine months apart; both premiered in 2015. Darling was produced by Glass Eye Pix, where Keating had also interned. For Carnage Park, a neo-Western horror film released in 2016, Fleischmann returned to produce. Describing Darling and Carnage Park, Charleston City Paper critic Kevin Young wrote that they show obvious influences from other horror films, but Keating's wide-ranging explorations of the various horror subgenres make him a promising director. Katie Rife of The A.V. Club wrote that although Carnage Park is fun, Keating needs to move beyond stylized homage to avoid the risk of being labeled an imitator. His latest film, Psychopaths, completed principal photography in March 2016.