The Butcher Brothers | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Mitchell Altieri Phil Flores |
| Occupation(s) | Film directors, film producers, screenwriters |
The Butcher Brothers are the filmmaking alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores.
Flores's first film was Long Cut (2002); he then joined with Mitchell Altieri to produce Lurking in Suburbia (2006).
Altieri's first feature film Lurking in Suburbia was discovered by Sundance Film Festival programmer Trevor Groth.[ citation needed ] Altieri and long time film partner Phil Flores then created their filmmaking alter-egos The Butcher Brothers, writing and directing the independent horror film The Hamiltons . His latest film, directed solo, is Holy Ghost People . As of April 2013, Raised by Wolves was completing post-production. [1]
Their first feature film The Hamiltons [2] was the co-winner of the Gold Vision Award of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [3] and the Jury Prize at the Malibu International Film Festival. [4] It was released by Lions Gate Entertainment in 2006 (Limited Theatrical) and 2007 (DVD). [5] Their influences include Tobe Hooper, David Cronenberg, and David Lynch.
In 2007, they filmed the video for the Static-X song "Destroyer". [6] They shot the horror film The Violent Kind, [7] which was part of the Sundance Film Festival 2010. [8] Next, the Butcher Brothers worked on Black Sunset, [9] a psychological thriller, which was produced by Cynthia Stafford of Queen Nefertari Prod. [10] They released the sequel to The Hamiltons, The Thompsons , in 2012. In 2014 they released Black Sunset. [11]