SEVERIN FILMS HAS AN AXE TO GRIND WITH A KIDNAPPED COED!

Severin Films December 2015 New Releases

Axe / Kidnapped Coed
Label: Severin Films

 

Production years: 1977, 1976 Genre: Horror
Director: Frederick R. Friedel
Cast: Axe: Leslie Lee, Jack Canon, Ray Green
Cast: Kidnapped Coed: Jack Canon, Leslie Rivers, Gladys Lavitan

 

Blu-ray + CD
        Pre-book: 11/10/2015 Streets: 12/08/2015 SRP: $34.95 UPC: 663390000557
Cat: SEV9557 Run Time: 66, 75 minutes (141 TOTAL minutes)
In English - Audio also available in German mono
Color Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1 Dolby Digital Mono All Regions

 

DVD
Pre-book: 11/10/2015 Streets: 12/08/2015 SRP: $24.95 UPC: 663390000915
Cat: SEV9915 Run Time: 66, 75 minutes (141 TOTAL minutes)
In English - Audio also available in German mono
Color Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1 Dolby Digital Mono All Regions

 

Synopsis:

In the mid-1970s, writer/producer/director/actor Frederick R. Friedel went to North Carolina to film a pair of enigmatic yet startling low-budget thrillers - AXE and KIDNAPPED CO-ED - only to see them both presumed lost to shady dealings, sudden tragedies, moral outrage and drive-in oblivion.

In AXE, depraved killers on the run hold a young woman and her invalid grandfather hostage in an isolated farmhouse.

 

In KIDNAPPED CO-ED, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family forms a perverse relationship with her abductor. Once thought doomed to drive-in obscurity, fans and grindhouse historians have begun to compare Freidel's films to those of David Lynch and Terrence Malick, and now the complete story behind this strange journey can finally be told.

Severin Films is proud to present both features restored from their original negatives, plus BLOODY BROTHERS, Friedel's recut of the two features as one twisted crime epic called BLOODY BROTHERS, and loaded with exclusive Bonus Features that reveal the startling saga behind the casts, crews, disastrous fate and surprising rediscovery of these nearly forgotten grindhouse/arthouse classics - the ultimate look at one of the most fascinating sagas in indie exploitation history!

 

Blu-ray Bonus Features:

• AXE & KIDNAPPED COED- Audio Commentaries with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Philip Smoot, Makeup Artist Worth Keeter
• BLOOD BROTHERS feature
• Audio Commentary with Nightmare USA Author Stephen Thrower
• At Last... Total Terror! - The Amazing True Story of the Making of AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (61 minutes)
• Moose Magic - The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story (33 minutes)
• Stephen Thrower on AXE & KIDNAPPED COED
• Trailers, TV Spots & Radio Spots
• BONUS CD: AXE & KIDNAPPED COED Original Motion Picture Soundtracks Plus Bonus Tracks By George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm

DVD Bonus Features:

• AXE & KIDNAPPED COED- Audio Commentaries with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Philip Smoot, Makeup Artist Worth Keeter
• At Last... Total Terror! - The Amazing True Story of the Making of AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (61 minutes)
• Stephen Thrower on AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (12 minutes)
• Trailers, TV Spots & Radio Spots

Reviews:

A perverse blast of art-horror realism and a mysterious amalgam of gritty joy.
AXE is one of the best-kept secrets in vintage exploitation. -Cinefamily.org

KIDNAPPED CO-ED is as good or better than anything similar you'd see pawned off as 'art'
on the Independent Film Channel. -DVD Drive-In