Bring Me the Head of Antonio Mayans (2017) watch online HD

Veteran Spanish actor Antonio Mayans is kidnapped by a director with whom he made a terrible film in the past, and whose career was destroyed by the failure of it. He seeks revenge and wants Mayans to act on his new project: a snuff movie.

The screenplay was written in a few days to take advantage of the fact that Antonio Mayans, Valentín Javier Diment, Luigi Cozzi and J.J. Weber would be attending Fantaspoa FIlm Festival in Brazil. Filming took place in one morning and two nights.

Only the first part of the script had dialogues. In the second part (between Valentín Javier Diment and Antonio Mayans in the apartment), dialogue was completely improvised by the two actors at the request of the director Felipe M. Guerra, who gave general guidelines on the topic of the conversation and how it should end, and had much fun watching them improvise their lines.

This is the third short film written and directed by Felipe M. Guerra in which a character is immobilized and tortured, after D.R. (2012) and O Estripador da Rua Augusta (2014). The director commented that whenever he needs to shoot something fast and in a single location he can only imagine a tied up character being tortured.

The scenes from the fake movie "Nomad - The Oasis Warrior" are actually excerpts from Jess Franco's Oasis of the Zombies (1982), in which a young Antonio Mayans played an Arab sultan.

Although the character of Silvio Valverde tries to offend Luigi Cozzi by reminding him how his film Paganini Horror (1989) is bad, a framed poster of "Paganini Horror" can be seen later in a corner of Valverde's apartment.

The long improvised dialogue between Valentín Javier Diment and Antonio Mayans in the final half of the short film was filmed in three takes, and in each of them the actors added new lines and information.

The audience that was in the cinema for the premiere of the documentary FantastiCozzi (2016), also directed by Felipe M. Guerra, ended up acting like extras of the supposed projection of "Nomad - The Oasis Warrior". None of the spectators knew what would happen, and the surprise reaction to the entry of Valentín Javier Diment is real.

The monologue that Antonio Mayans recites, when forced to act under threat of death, is an excerpt from Segismundo's speech in 1635's Spanish play "La Vida es Sueño" (Life Is a Dream), by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

In the original screenplay, Silvio Valverde mentioned that he had been invited by Steven Spielberg to direct "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" immediately before of the failure of "Nomad - The Oasis Warrior".

Director Felipe M. Guerra considers the short film a "perverse documentary" about Antonio Mayans - as if a crazy documentary filmmaker tied his interviewee to a chair and forced him to tell his life at gunpoint.