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UPDATE: The Butcher Bros. Become ‘The Violent Kind’

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Updated with first ever casting news! Some major news hit the trades tonight as it was revealed that the producers of both the Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboots will be bringing the Butcher Bros. back into the world of horror with The Violent Kind. The Butcher Bros, also known as Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores, broke onto the scene with their low-budget indie vampire film The Hamiltons. Read on for more details on The Violent Kind and watch for some casting news as it comes in.
Award-winning filmmakers The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores; THE HAMILTONS) have begun production on THE VIOLENT KIND. The dramatic feature horror film will be produced by Jeffrey Allard (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) and Michael Ferris Gibson, along with producers Andy Gould (HALLOWEEN), Malek Akkad (HALLOWEEN), Jeremy Platt, and executive producer K’Dee Miller. Film began lensing in Petaluma, CA and Cotati, CA on July 13th.

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 from The Hamiltons) and Q (Bret Roberts of S. Darko and May) 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 50th 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 of Surrogates), Cody’s ex-girlfriend Michelle (played by genre fav Tiffany Shepis who will be seen in Night of the Demons this October), 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 20somethings, each on their own path, but controlled by a history unbeknownst to them.

The Butcher Brothers direct the project penned from their own script. They have assembled a team of industry notables, including IFC Independent Spirit Award nominated James Laxton (MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY) as its cinematographer, and producers from the horror genre’s most recognized films (THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, HALLOWEEN, and HALLOWEEN II.)

THE VIOLENT KIND stars Cory Knauf (THE HAMILTONS, GODSPEED), Taylor Cole (“Heroes,” “Summerland”), Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis, noted “princess of scream” Tiffany Shepis , Joseph McKelheer (THE HAMILTONS, GODSPEED), Samuel Child (THE HAMILTONS), and Joe Egender (THE HAMILTONS, Backstage West Garland Award winning Best Actor for “He Asked For It”.)

The Butcher Brothers are represented by Jeremy Platt at Spectacle Entertainment, and Greg Pedicin at Gersh.

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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