Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a bag full of weapons and self-made bombs, he makes his way to the nearby mall to really stir things up. On his personal war campaign, he not only changes his life radically, but also the fate of other people who are in the wrong place at the same time: a teenager whose favorite pastime is smoking pot in his dreary existence, a housewife, where their best days have been left behind, a greedy businessman whose only desire is to increase his wealth and a depressed pervert.
Direction
Joe Hahn's music-video aesthetic crashes into narrative filmmaking
Editing
Aggressive cross-cutting that mirrors meth-fueled disassociation
Score
Hahn's electronic soundscape that never lets you breathe
Director
Joe Hahn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joe Hahn directed this between Linkin Park tours; the band's 'The Hunting Party' album dropped the same year.
This was Eric Bogosian's 'Mall' novel adapted by the guy who scratched turntables for 'In the End'—2014 was wild.
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