For those following along with the progress of the new Butcher Brothers film “The Violent Kind” who wondered what the hell happened once we wrapped, I apologize. Basically, there’s not a whole lot of exciting news. We all took a much need seven day or so detox….err….break from the film, one another, staying up all night and neglecting our loved ones to pull our lives back together after the insanity that was the shoot. Seeing as this is technically my first “real” movie shoot, I never really knew that you didn’t shoot features in 18 days. Apparently, that’s just frigging insane. Lesson learned.
While I knew we were all burning the candle at both ends, I didn’t know until I had a second to sit and reflect that most features- especially ones with a plot, special effects and great actors- take closer to 30 days to shoot. But figuring in this funky financial climate with the impending due dates for several major film festivals and time was (and is) of the essence. So, after taking a quick week off to reintroduce ourselves to our family and daylight, we’re right back at it.
Mitch and Phil have spent the week pulling 12-14 hour days in the editing bay which is essentially their office out here in Marin County. We had some great people digitizing and logging footage throughout shooting so now comes the rough cut. I’m not sure if I mentioned it previously, but I’m shooting the behind-the-scenes footage which will hopefully become a featurette on the eventual DVD release so all this post-production stuff is fascinating to me. Hopefully you’ll find it cool as well.
So the basic plan right now is to get something together we can show our investors, producers and festival programmers. I won’t lie- we want to go theatrical with this twisted mind fuck of a film and we all feel pretty good about the films chances seeing as “The Hamiltons” made the rounds in theaters when it was completed a few years ago. However “The Violent Kind” is already shaping up to be something freaky, creepy, bloody and sure to attract attention. But first, we gotta get it looking like a movie!
“The Violent Kind” is a horror film being directed by The Butcher Brothers. Film Threat writer Don R. Lewis is co-producing the film and this blog is serving as a journal of sorts to mark progress on the film. You can also follow “The Violent Kind” on twitter
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