The Butcher Brothers are the filmmaking alter-egos of American

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Mitchell Altieri Mitchell Altieri is an American film director, Film producer, producer and writer. Career His first feature film ''Lurking in Suburbia'' was discovered by Sundance Film Festival programmer Trevor Groth. Altieri and long time film partner Phil ...

and Phil Flores.

Biography

Phil Flores

Flores's first film was ''Long Cut'' (2002); he then joined with Mitchell Altieri to produce ''

Lurking in Suburbia ''Lurking in Suburbia'' is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Mitchell Altieri, produced by Altieri and Phil Flores, and stars Joe Egender, Samuel Child, Ari Zaragis, and Buffy Charlet. Plot On his thirtieth birthday, Conrad Stevens, ...

'' (2006).

Mitchell Altieri

Altieri's first feature film ''Lurking in Suburbia'' was discovered by

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programmer Trevor Groth. Altieri and long time film partner Phil Flores then created their filmmaking alter-egos The Butcher Brothers, writing and directing the

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'' The Hamiltons''. His latest film, directed solo, is '' Holy Ghost People''. As of April 2013, ''Raised by Wolves'' was completing post-production.

History

Their first feature film ''The Hamiltons'' was the co-winner of the Gold Vision Award of the

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and the Jury Prize at the Malibu International Film Festival. It was released by

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in 2006 (Limited Theatrical) and 2007 (DVD). Their influences include

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, and

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. In 2007, they filmed the video for the

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". They shot the horror film ''The Violent Kind'', which was part of the Sundance Film Festival 2010. Next, the Butcher Brothers worked on ''Black Sunset'', a psychological thriller, which was produced by Cynthia Stafford of Queen Nefertari Prod. They released the sequel to ''The Hamiltons'', ''

The Thompsons ''The Thompsons'' is an independent 2012 horror film directed by the Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores) and produced by Rob Weston and Travis Stevens. It is a sequel to the Butcher Brothers previous film '' The Hamiltons''. It ...

'', in 2012. In 2014 they released ''Black Sunset''.

Filmography

*'' The Hamiltons'' (2006) *''

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'' (2008) *''

The Violent Kind ''The Violent Kind'' is a 2010 American horror film directed by The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores), who co-wrote it with Adam Weis. It stars Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis, Tiffany Shepis, Joseph M ...

'' (2010) * ''

'' (2012) *''Black Sunset'' (2014)

References

External links

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The Butcher Brothers' Official Website
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