Axe/Kidnapped Coed (Blu-ray + CD Soundtrack)

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 \u2013 AXE and KIDNAPPED CO-ED \u2013 only to see them both presumed lost to shady dealings, sudden tragedies, moral outrage and drive-in oblivion.\nIn AXE, depraved killers on the run hold a young woman and her invalid grandfather hostage in an isolated farmhouse.\nIn 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\u2019s films to those of David Lynch and Terrence Malick, and now the complete story behind this strange journey can finally be told.\nSeverin Films is proud to present both features restored from their original negatives, plus BLOODY BROTHERS, Friedel\u2019s recut of the two features as one twisted crime epic called BLOODY BROTHERS, and loaded with exclusive;