Mikelikesnotlikes I got the impression that the writer was diagnosed with a fatal illness so he quickly slammed all his best ideas together into one last film. 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. The slathering of gore held some of it together but the tacked on torture porn aspect didn't do much for me. There was a lot of box-ticking going on. Sex scenes; tick, nudity; tick, fight scene; tick, let's split up and look for the thing killing us; tick, you get the picture. None of the story-lines were concluded either. What the hell were those hints about polio for?The director was so focused on each set that most scenes were too long and sometimes became painful to watch. I think the trick of shooting lots of footage and only keeping the best pieces was lost on this guy. Lots of duplicates as filler e.g. Shade screams non-stop for minutes, made me think the budget just didn't stretch to more than a few sets. (Sounds like she lost her voice during the shoot too.)It was so irritating but I do have to give it marks for making me watch to the end. After all, that's the producers job in a nutshell. As for the rest of it, nice try.

redrobin62-321-207311 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. It reminds me of that episode of South Park where Eric Cartman is trying to find out where the writers of Family Guy get their story ideas from. Finally, Eric is shocked to learn that it's manatees who push disparate, unrelated ideas together and the Family Guy writers just run with that. 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. If anything, it shows that the filmmakers did their homework as there were quite a few references to ideas that came before them. 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 incessant crying was also annoying. The fact that everyone looked like gorgeous super models is ridiculous. 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! Yeah, I know. What 9th grader came up with that idea, right? Maybe the directors' children were involved in the creation of the scrip. 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. In that case, the movie excels. For others, you've seen bits of this movie before. If rubbing all those different ideas together is your cup of tea, The Violent Kind won't disappoint.

BA_Harrison 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.

Jon Doe 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. I know that the mainstream crowd will probably rate this horribly or say it has plot holes(What everyone says when they don't understand something), but don't buy what they're selling unless your in their category. 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. Headlines of the gangs exploits are splashed across the screen in the form of newspaper articles of recent arrests. 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. It kept me glued to the screen. Then again I love supernatural elements which this movie has a lot of. I gave it a 9 because its already off to a bad start. It deserves a "solid" 7 rating. Acting is top notch, gore is above par, tense moments are everywhere, and an "I really didn't see it coming", twist. What can I say? 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!