Production Begins on The Butcher Brothers’ ‘The Violent Kind’

Production on ‘The Violent Kind,’ the new film from writer/directing team The Butcher Brothers (‘The Hamiltons’ and ‘April Fool’s Day’), began earlier this week in Northern California.   The film is being produced by Jeffrey Allard (2003’s ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’) and Michael Ferris Gibson (‘The Hamiltons’), along with producers Andy Gould (‘House of 1000 Corpses,’ ‘The Devil’s Rejects,’ and 2007’s ‘Halloween’), Malek Akkad (the ‘Halloween’ franchise), Jeremy Platt (‘The Haunted World of El Superbeasto’ and ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’), and first-time feature film executive producer K’Dee Miller.

Here is the official synopsis from the film’s press release:

One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the woods, a small group of hardened young biker hoodlums and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the women becomes demonically possessed. A few miles from them, “Missing Persons” signs displaying the faces of individuals not seen since the 1950s are spewed across a wall. The connection is met through a night of sex, booze, and inhuman personas.

Cody (Cory Knauf) and Q (Bret Roberts) are two young men caught in a legacy of crime and violence. Both born into a tough Northern California biker gang simply called “The Crew”, their lives have been a constant mix of admiration, hatred, love and fear of the criminal culture they’ve grown up in. When Cody’s mother has her 50^th birthday at an old secluded farmhouse in the woods – a hangout for The Crew for decades – the evening unites Cody with his cousin and Q’s girlfriend, Shade (Taylor Cole), Cody’s ex-girlfriend Michelle (Tiffany Shepis), and Megan (Christina Prousalis), the younger sister of Michelle who left the gang years ago to lead a cleaner life.

The party quickly turns wild with a typical biker mix of booze, drugs, and strippers, but shifts into something the likes of nothing they have ever known. As mysterious figures are glimpsed amongst the woods, ominous sounds heard, and friends found injured, an evening that begins with The Crew recanting the past quickly finds a bigger question looming: Who has joined them for this evening?

The machinations of THE VIOLENT KIND delve into an exploration of how the past, the present, and the future will impact the lives of several 20-somethings, each on their own path, but controlled by a history unbeknownst to them.

Filming began on Monday, and it has been nonstop.

Check out these set pics from the film’s Twitter page:

‘The Violent Kind’ stars Cory Knauf (‘The Hamiltons’ and ‘Godspeed’), Taylor Cole (“Heroes,” “Summerland”), Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis, noted “princess of scream” Tiffany Shepis, Joseph McKelheer (‘The Hamiltons’ and ‘Godspeed’), Samuel Child (‘The Hamiltons), and Joe Egender (‘The Hamiltons,’ and Backstage West Garland Award winning Best Actor for “He Asked For It”.)

We’ll keep you updated as news and pics continue to stream from the film’s production.   You can also follow production on ‘The Violent Kind’ via the film’s Twitter account.