The Violent Kind

Plot synopsis:
Cody, Q, and Elroy are second-generation bikers and drug dealers who plan to visit Cody's family at a remote cabin for his mother's birthday party; Shade, Q's girlfriend and Cody's cousin, joins them. When they arrive, they meet Cody's ex-girlfriend, Michelle, and her younger sister, Megan, who has a crush on Cody. After the party, Michelle and her husband take leave, which strands Megan at the cabin with Cody, Q, Elroy, and Shade. Though everyone else has left the party, Megan sees people outside the cabin and tries to get a ride from them. Having no luck locating the people she saw, she returns to the cabin and finds her sister bloody and near death. Michelle begs for help and collapses into unconsciousness before they can get any answers from her. At the same time, the cars and cell phones stop working. As the others attempt to figure out a plan, Elroy sexually assaults Michelle, but she surprises him by suddenly waking up and responding positively to him. As they begin to have sex, Michelle bites Elroy hard and tears away a piece of flesh from his neck. Elroy screams for help and tries to defend himself from Michelle as she tears into him. The others pull Michelle off Elroy, who is now heavily wounded, and, unsure what to do, they bind Michelle to the bed with tape.
Cody and Megan set off to find help, while Shade attempts to communicate with Michelle, whom she believes is possessed. During the conversation, Michelle loses control and attacks Shade. Shade barely escapes, and Q shoots through the door with a rifle. Michelle hides on the ceiling and attacks Q when he enters the room. Meanwhile, Cody and Megan discover that their closest neighbor is dead, and his wall is littered with missing persons reports that date back to the 1950s. They return to the cabin and discover the aftermath of Q's fight with Michelle: Michelle has disappeared, and Q wants to give up on finding her. Megan is outraged that Q would try to kill her sister, and Cody insists that they stay to help Elroy and find Michelle. Q and Cody come to blows, and Q leaves alone after failing to persuade Shade to accompany him. As Q walks down the road, he meets Michelle's dead husband, who is now alive again and talking about hearing strange, beautiful music. At the same time, Elroy, who is in the cabin, also mentions hearing music. Elroy and Michelle's husband both explode as their bodies are overcome in a blinding light.
Vernon, Jazz, and Murderball, psychopathic greasers, appear at the cabin, take everyone hostage, and torture them for information. Vernon sadistically toys with Cody, demanding to know where Michelle is and hinting that she is critically important to plans that involve a cataclysmic end to humanity. Vernon and Jazz leave the cabin momentarily to bring in Q's bound body, and Vernon proceeds to repeatedly stab Q with a switchblade. When Shade protests, Vernon orders Jazz to kill her. Outraged, Cody and Q overpower Vernon and shoot him with Q's rifle, but it has no effect. Murderball kills Q, and Vernon reveals that he knew Michelle's location the whole time; he just wanted to torture them for the fun of it. Vernon claims to have been hiding in a human body for the past 60 years and to be originally from a void beyond time and space that was the inspiration for human myths about heaven and hell. After he completes a ritual involving Michelle, Vernon releases Cody and Megan, saying that he likes them and pities their fate. As Cody and Megan flee to a nearby town, they see the people around them dropping dead, and the sky darkens ominously.

Tags: violence

Review:
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.
The plot itself keeps you guessing at what's going to happen next, which I can't say for most horror movies.
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.
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.
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This is a film that could almost be broken into three differently toned parts along the lines of a format similar to "A.I." and "Martyrs." Likewise, the first half seems conventional enough, the second half more dangerous and the third is about as bleak as they come--by the time it finishes, how it began will be a distant memory."The Violent Kind" starts out as a cool and sleazy afternoon in Oakland, CA with a posse of three young biker buddies belonging to "The Crew" who are without a care or concern except living up their own impulsive behavior from rough sex, fights to drinking beer.
After almost everybody leaves, the real party just gets started, one where their livers aren't going to be the only things on the line.Cody's ex girlfriend returns a bloodied mess and asks for help.
She's brought inside and placed in a bed until the remaining people left over--three guys, two gals--can figure out why their vehicles won't work and their cell phones act glitchy to get help as they're in the middle of nowhere.
Soon enough things start to get really weird, as the woman on the bed turns Linda Blair-like possessed and with her bare hands mutilates one of the guys trying to get frisky and feel her up.Soon enough, the mysterious outsiders show up to the house to collect something they need.
Though it's like they stepped into another era or some kind of paranormal realm as there are unexplained flashes of light and these new strangers appear to be ripped out of a time warp from the '50s with their distinct attire, tunes and lingo.
They've got a dark and condescending sense humor that includes torturing their hostages while playing theme music on the record player and all the while laughing sardonically like they know a big secret their captives don't.
They put on a sadistic show and fit their eccentric parts like a glove, though it's a rather pointless game except to show what kind of people they're dealing with: the violent kind.The first phase is more fleshed out and some perspective is gained of the young gang with some internal conflicts, though it's a different type of knowing as being familiar with their disregard for restraint sets a new bar for comfortable living at the expense of others as well as themselves.
It would be like watching "Night of the Living Dead," except where the TV and word of mouth by others are missing, which would leave the focus in one area but not effectively set up for how it all pans out or ties in to a global matter.
Otherwise it feels exaggerated to stretch its importance."The Violent Kind" isn't going to be for everybody but it's definitely a different type of film which travels over a wide arc of genres and steps on any morals or taboos it can in the process.
I have to say after more and more mainstream crap Horror like Scream 4(Sorry Wes Craven, but Scream 3 and 4 were just monotonous and overbudgeted) and the flood of remakes, its very refreshing to see something new and semi-original come from the independent film industry.
Premise: The movie starts off telling the violent story of a notorious biker gang that is into drugs, violence, and crime getting together for a party.
The party quickly comes and goes then some real weird things start to happen after everyone leaves the party house.This movie definitely is a send up in the spirit of Evil Dead and the Exorcist thrown in with a few other genre Slasher flicks.
The movie definitely stands out as a smashmouth, grindhouse Independent, supernatural slasher with a very decent twist at the end that is like the icing on the cake.
I can already hear the argument that the film tries to be too much, but trust me, the movie handles everything, including the twist right down to the last minute.
I loved this movie and I highly recommend it to the REAL die-hard genre fans who can appreciate good REAL independent horror in the tradition of Evil Dead and The Exorcist.Bravo!.
Shockingly brutal movie about a group of people going after what they want.
After a party a girl named Michelle shows up bloody and dying, after being cared for strange things begin to happen.
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.
But that's about the only good thing about this movie.
The beginning starts out kind of slow, and conversations seem to drag on just to take up time in the film.
After gathering together for a party, a group of bikers realize something's wrong with one of their members when they start behaving erratically, but that's only the start of their troubles when Satanic demons arrive at the party looking for one of their own.This was a really interesting effort that gets some really enjoyable moments about it.
Initially starting off as a biker film for the first half, complete with the trials and tribulations of the crew and their business dealings before getting to the party.
Once there, it turns into a rather fun and enjoyable enough possession film about one turning into a demonic creature which is where this one really gets fun in not only using the house as a fun stalking ground but also with the possession allowing for plenty of tense encounters with the constant yelling, graphic attacks and restraint attempts that are brought on against the possessed which makes for quite a fun time overall.
The biggest factor here with this one comes from the final half, where this one tends to get lowered slightly by the appearance of the villains as their retro-greaser look might not be as scary as it could've been since they look pretty laughable while the slang and taunts eventually grow thin since these scenes eventually add up to untold amounts of time doing nothing, which is only afterward in thinking about it so it's not so bad.
Still, it works well and is definitely fun enough.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Full Nudity and several sex scenes..
And due the acting it really works but it is still a weird movie.
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.
Another original premise for this movie: A biker gang and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely possessed and a gang of "Rockabillies" from the fifties descends upon them to collect what is growing inside her.
I found the first hour of the movie, actually kind of boring.
The plot: A group of petty drug dealers head to their remote cabin for a birthday celebration, but the real party begins when one of them becomes possessed by something beyond time and space.The biggest problem is that this film has too much filler.
The first 30 minutes consists of tedious character development, but once you get past that, things start getting pretty interesting.
The setup seems to be going toward a stereotypical, derivative biker film, but it takes a series of progressively weirder left turns into possession film, home invasion, surreal torture porn, and finally a David Lynch-style ending that leaves you with plenty of questions and no answers.
If you like David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Takashi Miike, you'll probably like this film, but mainstream horror fans who resent endings that make no sense will probably want to stay away from this messy film.There are definitely some interesting ideas, and the filmmakers tried to do something different and non-mainstream.
If you're patient, forgiving of low budget horror films, and like weird stories that make no sense, you should give The Violent Kind a try.
Things just happened, without any explanation, then the movie ended, leaving much to be finalized.
It did feel a little like a Coscarelli movie to me.The individual elements of the story were interesting enough, like the 50's angle, or the ending, or the motorcycle gang vibe, but I feel they were not put together right and it all fell short of what it could have been.
What started of as a low(er) budgeted Evil Dead, which I was fine with, soon morphed into something else which wasn't as appealing, the acting wasn't nearly strong enough to pull it off and I quickly got bored with the film.
Now I love a good horror b-movie as much, if not more so, than the next guy, but sadly this film was a bit of a hodgepodge mess, choosing to take a kitchen sink attitude (wherein the filmmakers throw stuff at you in the vain hope that something sticks) Alas nothing does.
It's part demonic possession movie, part home invasion psycho-torture porn.
The biker story doesn't really work because the cast looks like a bunch of skinny dopey surfer dudes.
One straightforward slasher flick and one supernatural/possession movie..
I got to see a cut of The Violent Kind at the San Francisco International Film Festival and it was amazing.
It takes about 5 left turns and where you end up is pretty far away from where you started.
One guy pulls Michelle off the biker and holds her down on the bed, then Michelle's sister Megan comes in and attempts to pull the guy off the monster Michelle.The events are confusing and the movie waits too long explain what is happening.Pluses: The bad guy had his own music as he whistled in an off key "Pop Goes the Weasel" although it wasn't used again.
Home invaders are from the "1950's."Negatives: Not a movie for those who take their films seriously.Sex, nudity, F-bomb.
And by best, I mean other people's best ideas.The only original thing about this film is the way it tries to fit together a story involving bikers, zombies, demons and 50's obsessed aliens.
This film is actually worthy of two different ratings - the 3 I gave it and the 8 I wanted to give it.The low rating is because the story basically made no sense.
The Violent Kind is one of those kinds of movies - throw in as many unrelated events as you possibly can into one film and hope the audience buys the ridiculousness.To be fair, those contrasting elements is why I wanted to give the movie an 8 rating.
Just watching the film you will be reminded of Tarantino, James Dean, Pulp Fiction, The Wild Bunch, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Tarantino, The Exorcist, The Possession, Tarantino, Machine Girl, Carrie, Alien, The Silence of the Lambs, Tarantino, that episode of Twilight Zone where the space alien who looks human wears his white work cap over the third eye in his forehead, Tarantino, etc.The over-the-top acting in some parts was downright annoying, like Jim Carrey on steroids.
The fact that the phones have no signal is ultra-clichéd; maybe that's a routine element for horror these days, like a woman running through the woods who finally trips over a root or something.For a bunch of smart motorcycle/car mechanics, they sure look stupid not being able to figure out a car won't start because it's, gasp!, out of gas!
It sure shows, probably who The Violent Kind was intended for anyway.In the end, all the sudden twists and turns the movie makes from censored porn to biker drama to vampire-like horror to science fiction must have been made for kids with the attention span of fleas.
It's one thing to be the sort of crappy filmmakers who can't come up with enough story to fill up a feature length project so they just kill time with a bunch of pointless nonsense.
It's another thing to be the sort of crappy filmmakers who can't come up with enough story to fill up a feature length project so they just kill time with a bunch of pointless nonsenseand then have the balls to acknowledge to the audience that's exactly what they did.
I prefer that when filmmakers suck and they know they suck, they should at least have the humility to try and cover it up.And before I get into the actual movie, let me clear something up.
Fundamentally, though, The Violent Kind isn't a biker flick at all.
It's a low budget, sci-fi, end of the world horror film with just a hint of Lovecraft that uses bikers instead of teenagers as the victims de jour.
What's good here is Bret Roberts, who would have been great in an actual biker flick full of boobs, bullets and blood.
The Violent Kind looks cheap.
Horror movie characters are renowned for doing idiotic stuff, but decapitated turkeys aren't as stupid as the two people here who decide to beat the snot out of each other in the middle of a supernatural crisis.
This kind of bizarre is more in the "the people who made this don't know what the hell they're doing" way.
And to the extent there's any sort of subplot of personal conflict that plays out against the backdrop of the end of the world, it's manifested solely through the characters spouting expository sentences at each other.And if you want to know, The Violent Kind is about 3 bikers and 3 girls at a house in the woods who are set upon by aliens that are inhabiting the bodies of people who went missing in the 1950s.
Because the aliens have some time to waste before destroying humanity and decided that pretending to be a rockabilly tribute band at the end of a month long meth bender sounded like a great idea.So, to recap, The Violent Kind is being falsely marketed and it stinks.