- Director: Connor Marsden
- Author: Connor Marsden, Devin Myler, William Woods
- Stars: Rohan Campbell, Sarah Gray, Greg Bryk, Gregory Ambrose Calderone, Chad Camilleri
REVIEW
Going down in an alternate Nineteen Eighties, Henry Violence (Campbell) turns into caught-up in a drug warfare. As rival cartels battle, Henry tries to take his ex-girlfriend Charlotte (Gray), away from the medication, the crime and the horror that he launched her to. As Henry makes an attempt to place issues proper, his previous catches up with him and now he has to make the robust selections, ones that may result in extra blood and extra violence.
Director Connor Marsden pulls all the precise strikes, protecting the movie transferring at a cracking tempo, Cinematographer Vincent Biron serving to paint a harmful, squalid and punk, neon hued world that’s fuelled by drug habit. The movie barely slows down and if it does, it makes you watch the brutality of the world. Hardcore/Punk aesthetic apart, Violence appears and appears like an 80s action-horror movie. With a heavy synth rating from Nowhere2Run rounding out the movie, it helps create the proper ambiance.
The brutality in Violence is on show early and sometimes. Our titular protagonist is subjected to a number of the aforementioned brutality. Stabbed, burned and extra Henry considerably takes on an invincible persona, I suppose in the identical manner John McClane was in Die Exhausting, in a position to take a beating however at all times comeback to inflict simply as a lot punishment as he has endured. Rohan Campbell (Halloween Kills) makes Henry his personal, profiting from the character and leaning onerous into the anti-hero side. The remainder of the solid are all glorious, actually promoting you that that is their lot in life and it’s important to do what it’s important to do to outlive.
Violence is a hell of a kick-off from Connor Marsden in his first function movie. I can’t wait to see what he does subsequent.
Performed at The Brooklyn Horror Movie Competition
Ryan Morrissey-Smith
