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“Makes KIDS look like an after-school special.” -Urb Magazine
“Defiant & confrontational!” -Suicide Girls
“Visionary director Matt Pizzolo takes a harsh look at what it means to be a disaffected youth, showing that the promised land of opportunity and the American dream are relics of the past.” -McGill Daily
WHAT’S ON THE DVD?
DVD also includes 45 minutes of special features including deleted scenes, alternate cuts, and behind-the-scenes footage; 2 Mobtracks: alternate audio channels where Alec Empire and Enduser remix the dialogue and music into surreal soundscapes; 3-disc set comes with 2 CDs “Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” featuring Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, EC8OR, Queque & more, “Music That Inspired The Movie” mashups featuring Minor Threat vs Holocaust, Glassjaw vs Enduser, Today Is The Day vs Darph/Nader, Bleeding Through vs Hecate, Youth of Today vs Edgey, Judge vs Bill Youngman, V.O.D. vs The Tyrant, The Icarus Line vs The End, Gorilla Biscuits vs Defragmentation, 18 Visions vs Otto Von Schirach, Terror vs Enduser, Killswitch Engage vs Edgey, Inside Out vs Oktopus of Dalek, Agnostic Front vs Schizoid, Most Precious Blood vs Alec Empire.
“Unapologetically brutal, surprisingly intelligent. 4.5 out of 5″ -Film Threat
“A raw blast of visceral anger… explodes off the screen! Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go.” -DVD Talk
“Thrillingly chaotic! Sickeningly violent! S’like you hired private dicks to follow your kids around at night and they hired Abel Ferrara to do surveillance… the story skewers you.” -Terrorizer Magazine
“Notorious!” -Outburn Magazine
“A triumph!” -LI Voice
“Ambition & attitude!” -Style Magazine
“Scathing!” -Revolution Magazine
“A nihilistic, nightmarish vision.” -LI Press
“Ferocious… a stunning piece of narrative chaos.” -Rumour Machine
“The arts at their rawest, most street-entrenched level.” -Montreal Mirror
“Simply the voice of this generation’s youth. One of the most important films of the decade!” -Earcandy
* WINNER * Lausanne Underground Film Festival – GRAND PRIZE
* WINNER * Rome Independent Film Festival – SPECIAL MENTION FIRST FEATURE
- Official Selection -
Van’s Warped Tour DiY Film Festival
Miami Underground Film Festival
Estonia International Film Festival
Raindance International Film Festival
THREAT is an award-winning and controversial urban thriller that has earned its maverick filmmakers both accolades and condemnations for its heady brew of street philosophy and ultraviolence. White straightedge hardcore-punk Jim and black hip-hop radical Fred become friends working dead-end jobs in NYC’s Lower East Side, both of them with the hope their newfound brotherhood will bring solidarity to their disparate communities. Instead, the alliance triggers a violent race riot that spills into the city streets with devastatingly tragic consequences.
Produced on 16mm film by a guerrilla team of non-professional filmmakers in their late teens and early twenties working unpaid at a film co-op in exchange for equipment and shooting on film short ends left over from local TV shoots. Writer-director Matt Pizzolo was the eldest crewmember, having just turned 22.
THREAT
a Kings Mob Production
Directed by Matt Pizzolo
Produced by Katie Nisa & Matt Pizzolo
Written by Matt Pizzolo & Katie Nisa
Cinematographer: Benjamin Brancato
Editor: Brian Giberson
Associate Producers: David R. Fisher, Matt Eddy
Production Coordinator: Anna Barranca
Production Designer: Ben Knight
Makeup & Styling: Monica Sklar
Score Composer: Queque
Music by Queque, Alec Empire, Atari Teenage Riot, Bleeding Through, Eighteen Visions, Terror, Eyes Like Knives, Engine Kid, and more.
STARRING
Carlos Puga: Jim
Keith Middleton: Fred
Rebekka Takamizu: Mekky
Katie Nisa: Kat
Kamouflage: Desmond
Neil Rubenstein: Ruby
David R. Fisher: Marco
Tony Dreannan: Tony
August 31st, 2009 at 3:21 am
I never ever post but this time I will,Thanks alot for the great blog.