Undercover cop Jack Williams (Mark Glover) is having a shit go of it recently what with his wife Lillian (Kathleen McSweeney) leaving him, and taking his daughter, Amy (Rebecca Rose) with her… but shit is going to go from “bad” to “really fucking bad” in the blink of an eerie eye when he’s assigned to go deep cover on the incognito tip and pose as a bartender for Ye Olde Tithaus… or Your Friendly Neighborhood Strip Joint if you prefer… the reported source of the hot new street drug “Rapture”.
It doesn’t take our hero long to discover the club is even more fucked up then originally advertised and is in fact home to Asmodeus (Dave Miller) and his fellow demons… hell-born creatures creating a new race, The Breed, half-human/half-demon sons of bitches fueled by Rapture with a real hair up their collective asses to rip the city a new asshole!
Now, Jack had his suspicions about the ghoulish goings-on from the get-go… but the stakes get raised considerably when Lillian is taken as Asmodeus’ sex slave and Amy is kidnapped by The Breed… who just so happen to be facilitating the birth of The Antichrist!
When Jack is side-lined with an epic case of worms (it’s not what you think, but would you be surprised?), a group of rag-tag survivors led by Jack’s police cohort Steve (Nick Stodden, who makes for a solid hero) must take up the fight to defeat Satan’s wayward minions!
Coming from legendary cult movie maestro Todd Sheets (Dreaming Purple Neon, Bonehill Road, Clownado), Violent New Breed is absolutely stuffed to the gruesome gills with imaginative (and absolutely batshit) ideas… and Sheets doesn’t let a lack of funds hinder bringing a single one of them to the screen!
For nearly two hours we are treated to impressive and inventive practical creature effects, robot babies, naked flesh, dominatrix scientists, slime, and absolutely buckets of grizzly gore!
Being a shot on video, micro-budget presentation some of the production values run the quality gamut, but the commitment and “let’s put on a show… a show like these mother fuckers have never seen” mentality of everyone involved spills into every frame… and while we are jawin’ about actors, be sure and look for Dolemite himself Rudy Ray Moore as a rhymin’ and cursin’ priest, and revel in the off-the-wall energy of Jerry Angell as shit-kickin’ demon Gabriel (though Cathy Metz as no nonsense club manager Iris gives him a run for his money).
While the unhinged cinematic lunacy on display here is worth it’s weight in fried gold, there is more here than just our main event…
Special features on this Blu-ray from Visual Vengeance kick off with multiple ways to view Violent New Breed. Included are the 2023 remastered version (which I used for the brunt of this revoltin’ review), the original DVD & VHS cuts, and a truncated R-rated cut created for The Movie Channel.
Also included are a selection of audio commentaries (one for the 2023 remaster with Sheets and Visual Vengeance’s Rob Hauschild, and two for the DVD version… the first courtesy of Weng’s Chop magazine’s Tony Strauss and the other once again featuring Sheets who is joined by Actors Nick & Becky Stodden, and Antwoine Steele).
Also included are an interview featuring Actor Angell and Sheets, an account of what it was like to work with Ray Moore (from Sheets), a Behind-the-Scenes Documentary, a Q&A from a theatrical showing of Violent New Breed, a blooper reel, a “behind-the-scenes” image gallery, local news coverage of the film’s production, the uncut strip club sequence, a pretty damn awesome zombie western short film called Fistful of the Undead, and a duo of trailers.
Also included in the package are a reversible sleeve featuring both incredible artwork by… I have no idea, but it’s fucking killer… as well as the truly metal original VHS box art, a folded mini-poster featuring absolutely awesome Ghana poster art by artist Heavy J (which is also featured on the included slipcover), a VHS-era inspired sticker sheet, and a suitably bonkers promo card.
Violent New Breed is an ambitious fright flick that proves that a wealth of imagination is more important than a huge budget, and that makes for one hell of an entertaining S.O.V. horror experience!
