Violence – Blood in the Snow 2025
November 17 to November 22, 2025
FILM FESTIVAL
Blood in the Snow
Blood in the Snow 2025
AWARDS
Best Music Score in a Feature
Best Supporting Acting Performance in a Feature
A former drug pusher tries to save his junkie girlfriend in Violence. In an alternate 1980s, a city is under the control of drug kingpin Jimmy Jazz (Joris Jarsky). After Jimmy’s stash of “red powder” is stolen by straight-edge vigilantes, Charlie Rocket (Maddie Hasson) and Bats (Tomaso Sanelli), Jimmy’s former dealer, Henry Violence (Rohan Campbell), is brought in by Dead Ramone (Jasmin Kar) as a possible suspect. However, Violence has just returned to town to save his junkie girlfriend Charlotte Cola (Sarah Grey), but he promises Jimmy to make things right before the night is through.
Violence Synopsis
Violence is a gritty crime thriller and the debut feature from co-writer and director Connor Marsden. Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends) stars as the titular Henry Violence, a former punk rocker and drug dealer, who has returned to the city to save his girlfriend Charlotte Cola, who is still heavily addicted to the red powder dealt by Violence’s former boss Jimmy Jazz, played by Joris Jarsky (Out Come the Wolves). Violence ends up crossing paths with Charlie Rocket, played by Maddie Hasson (Bone Lake, Malignant), and Bats, played by Tomaso Sanelli (Thanksgiving), who are part of a straight-edge vigilante group aiming to bring down Jimmy Jazz.
My Thoughts on Violence
With Violence, first-time director Connor Marsden transforms Sudbury, Ontario, into a gritty alternate 1980s city straight out of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. That film and Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire are arguably the biggest influences, with atmospheric production design and a techno-punk score by Nowhere2run. However, Violence does end up being a slog at times, with the single-night narrative featuring too many expositionary flashbacks, and the film’s hyperviolent climax ends on a major anti-climactic note.
