* Winner *
Grand Prize
2006 Lausanne Underground Film Festival
* Winner *
Special Mention
2006 Roma Independent Film Festival
*Official Selection*
Miami Underground Film Festival
Estonia Independent Film Festival
Finland Rokumentti Rock & Film Festival
Berlin Global Ghetto Film Festival
Punk & Disorderly Film Festival
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Raindance Film Festival
Van's Warped Tour
"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 punk-rocker 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 that 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.
Shot entirely within the hardcore punk and hip-hop scenes, "Threat" features an adrenaline fueled soundtrack that includes Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, Bleeding Through, Terror, 18 Visions, Eyes Like Knives, and Most Precious Blood.
Critics have compared "Threat" to such hard-edged cult classics as "Kids," "Do The Right Thing," "Easy Rider," "American History X," "The Warriors," "Mean Streets," "Fight Club," and "A Clockwork Orange." See for yourself why DVD-Talk likened director Matt Pizzolo to "early Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara, and Larry Clark."
"Thrillingly chaotic, sickeningly violent... the story skewers you. S'like you hired private eyes to follow your kids around at night and they hired Abel Ferrara to do surveillance. It contains voices and thoughts (particularly about politics and 9/11) that you're not likely to hear anywhere else... Hear, see, never set foot in a multiplex ever again."
--Terrorizer Magazine
"Unapologetically brutal and surprisingly intelligent... this film works on every conceivable level; it holds court not only as a historical document of time and place, but also as a window into the soul of American adolescence. Great art should assail the status quo, and that is what Matt Pizzolo and Katie Nisa's film has skillfully accomplished."
--Film Threat
"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."
--The McGill Daily
45+ Minutes of Special Features including:
- Deleted Scenes
- Alternate Cuts
- Trailers and Fundraising Promos
- Filmmaker Interviews
- Behind-The-Scenes footage
- 2 "Mobtrack" DJ tracks... watch the movie with DJs remixing beats against the scenes; 1 track by Alec Empire, 1 track by Enduser.
** Deluxe 3-Disc Edition **
This 3-Disc Deluxe Edition includes the full-length movie DVD with 45+ minutes of special features, plus the "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" CD and the critically acclaimed "Music That Inspired The Movie" CD, an homage to the historic "Judgment Night" soundtrack, this time pitting hardcore and metalcore bands against breakcore artists; mashups include Edgey vs. Killswitch Engage, Defrag vs. Gorilla Biscuits, Hecate vs. Bleeding Through, Enduser vs. Glassjaw, Holocaust vs. Minor Threat, and many more.
Disc 2
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1. "Night Of Violence" - Alec Empire
2. "Start The Riot" - Atari Teenage Riot
3. "Into The Death" - Atari Teenage Riot
4. "Rage" - Atari Teenage Riot feat. Tom Morello & D-Stroy
5. "Sick To Death" - Atari Teenage Riot
6. "Get Up While You Can" - Atari Teenage Riot
7. "Gotta Get Out" - Alec Empire
8. "Common Enemy" - Panic DHH
9. "Wanna Peel" - EC8OR
10. "Number Seven With A Bullet" - Bleeding Through
11. "The Great Red Shift" - Most Precious Blood
12. "One Hell Of A Prize Fighter" - Eighteen Visions
13. "Overcome" - Terror
14. "Drone" - Eyes Like Knives
15. "mPathik" - Queque
16. "heVn" - Queque
17. "I Am A Threat" - King David
18. "Kids Are United" - Atari Teenage Riot
Disc 3
Music That Inspired The Movie
1. "Pandemic" - Most Precious Blood vs. Alec Empire
2. "World At War" - Agnostic Front vs. Schizoid
3. "Ghost In The Machine" - Inside Out vs. Oktopus from Dälek
4. "World Ablaze" (Threat mix) - Killswitch Engage vs. Edgey
5. "Overkill" - Terror vs. Enduser
6. "Champagne Enemaz" - Eighteen Visions vs. Otto Von Schirach
7. "Zolobovine" - Gorilla Biscuits vs. Defragmentation
8. "Cannibal Kitten" - The Icarus Line vs. The End
9. "Slapped With An X" - Vision of Disorder vs. The Tyrant
10. "Bring It" - Judge vs. Bill Youngman
11. "Stalwart Carapace" - Youth Of Today vs. Edgey
12. "Deathbed" - Bleeding Through vs. Hecate
13. "I Know That You're Lying" - Today Is The Day vs. darph/nadeR
14. "Star Buried In My Yard" - Glassjaw vs. Enduser
15. "Don't Step" - Minor Threat vs. Holocaust
