The Violent Kind

How far will you go for what you want? After a party a girl named Michelle shows up bloody and dying, after being cared for strange things begin to happen. When a group shows up for something she has things get worse. This is a very strange movie that I found myself really liking. Not much to this movie but sex, beating people up, and a lot of blood. There are a lot of similar scenes to a variety of different movies in this, too many to name but you will recognize most of them when you watch. This is not a movie for people who are against violence (but from the title it weeds most of them out), but it is actually a very entertaining movie that kept me interested the entire time. This is not the kind of movie I usually like, but this was an exception. Very gory and shocking in some parts, but overall not a bad rental. I surprisingly give it a B.

Would I watch again? - I might, but not really a definite re-watcher.

The Violent Kind. After I watched this film I read some of the reviews. It was pretty appalling to see what some people had to say about this movie. Right after I saw it I wanted to purchase it. I felt like it was reviewed pretty harshly. I will say it's definitely not mainstream. If you are bored with the same old plots and twists than give this movie a shot. Personally,I had high expectations for this movie...and it surely delivered! I'm not going to ruin anything by giving a detailed review. I will say that it has bikers, vintage cars, violence,throwbacks to the 1950's and a touch of Lovecraftian twist. The actors and actresses do a very good job here. The effects are better than some you see in the mainstream trash they put out now. The plot itself keeps you guessing at what's going to happen next, which I can't say for most horror movies. Great movie and can't wait for more.

The central characters in The Violent Kind sure don't conform to the 'ugly, burly, leather-clad, bandana-wearing thug with unkempt beard and long unwashed hair' biker stereotype: best friends Q and Cody (Cory Knauf), members of tough Northern Californian gang 'The Crew', look like aspiring Levi's models, sporting carefully tousled hair and designer stubble.

Q's hard living, heavy drinking and brawling clearly hasn't prevented him from maintaining a strict fitness regime at the local gym, giving him a chiselled physique that has helped him bag a model-standard girlfriend in the form of brunette hottie Shade (Taylor Cole). Most of the time, Q and his pals hang out in their nice suburban house, but when the guys like to party hearty, they do so at a cosy woodland retreat that belongs to Q's biker mum (not a bad property portfolio for a family with no visible means of support other than some petty drug-dealing).

While this easy-on-the-eye cast is obviously going to give The Violent Kind broader appeal than a bunch of fat men with walrus whiskers and some fugly biker chicks, I really wish that The Butcher Brothers, the guys behind this indie horror, hadn't succumbed to such a trite Hollywood-ism—in my opinion, the superficiality of the pretty boy bikers and their gorgeous girls robs the film of any credibility.

After lots of unconvincing guff that struggles but fails to prove to viewers just how ruthless and reckless Q and Cody can be despite their appearances (the guys get in a couple of scraps, Q has rough sex with Shade, and the guys attend a wild biker party), the film finally starts living up to the quotes on the box that claim it to be brutal, bloody and just a bit bonkers: Cody's slutty ex, Michelle (Tiffany Shepis), inexplicably becomes possessed, bringing her to the attention of some undead rockabillies from another dimension/outer space, who strip her naked for some kind of bizarre occult ritual—but only after a spot of torturing and killing.

While none of this really makes much sense, at least its a damn sight more entertaining than all that faux bad boy biker crap. 5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores did know their job, they already did a few horrors like for example The Hamiltons. Another name that was a regular for me was Tiffany Shepis. I have seen her so many times in flicks and always she goes naked. Well, Kleenex fans, here she goes full naked with a camera pan over her body from knees to head revealing it all. Of course that's not the most important thing, or is it, to watch it. Some faces will be recognized like Joe Egender ( from The Hamiltons and other horrors) and Taylor Cole (Surrogates or The Green Hornet). And due the acting it really works but it is still a weird movie. Some parts were a bit too long with for example the rockabilly's showing up. But it do deliver on the gore. It starts of with what you think another biker movie with a lot of roughness and nudity but after 22 minutes out of the blue someone gets possessed. The story surrounding that possession is as I said a bit weird but once all is explained you surely will see the nudity and the red stuff and some gory parts. Some is done by real effects and other by CGI but it worked out fine. Not a flick for everyone but if you can take a bit of horror and science fiction than you can watch it.

What a refreshing, fun yet gory film. I went into this thinking it was going to be your typical possession or slasher'ish type film and the beginning of the movie started to prove that I wasn't wrong. With its opening scene of loud rough sex inside and a bunch of bikers kicking the crap out of two guys outside I settled in for what I thought would be a mindless horror film that was entertaining but without much depths. I was wrong.

I can't get too much into the plot as the movie packs a surprising punch near the end but the ride to the twist was definitely a fun one. I can say that even though the movie started off as your typical horror film with its drunken party, slutty girls and drama when the party ends, that's when the fun begins.

The film starts to get very strange when a gang of 50's era punks show up looking for one of the girls at the party. I loved that they added this and found it refreshing as its nothing I have ever seen before. The gang ends up having an odd sense of humour and uses it to amuse themselves with their hostages in a series of bizarre games and such.

Overall great flick, delivers on the gore, acting, storyline all topped off with quite an amazing twist. This movie would be great for most non-mainstream horror movie lovers.

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