No Pill for Regret came out of one of the more creatively uncertain stretches in Dollars & Donuts history. After a run of smaller projects and webseries, Daryl wanted something that felt like a real movie again. Hank Della supplied the script, a compact psychological thriller built around grief, guilt, unreliable memory, and the kind of cruel final turn that would have felt at home in The Twilight Zone.

Daryl shot it in black and white, leaning hard into the older suspense films he and Hank both loved. The goal was not to imitate Hitchcock shot for shot, but to chase that same feeling of ordinary spaces becoming sinister and every answer making the situation worse.

Production took place over Daryl’s 30th birthday weekend in October 2016.

The film also introduced Sasha Boggs to Dollars & Donuts as Eve Muntz. At the time, it was simply a strong new casting choice. In hindsight, it became much more than that. Sasha would continue appearing in the films, become one of the company’s defining collaborators, and eventually step into a major producing role years later.

One of the smaller details ended up carrying its own weight. The bar scene features Hank Della and George Martin, the fathers of Daryl and Michael Martin, sitting together as barflies while Frank unravels beside them. It is a tiny moment, but a very Dollars & Donuts one, family members getting folded into the world because they were there, game, and willing to sit in front of a camera.

The production mixed old collaborators with new faces, a familiar crew with a different kind of story, and a much more controlled visual approach than some of the projects immediately around it.

For Daryl, it felt like a reminder. The company could still make something dark, focused, and cinematic. And it could still surprise itself.