Brand new factory sealed dvd double feature that is Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured. The writer/producer/director/actor made two startling low-budegt thrillers, only to see them both presumed lost to shady dealings, sudden tragedies, moral outrage and drive-in oblivion. The complete story behind this critically acclaimed director, Frederick R. Friedel, can finally be told.

Both films are presented here completely restored from their original negatives with the director's commentary, if desired, and exclusive bonus features that reveal the inside story behind the rediscovery of these nearly forgotten grindhouse/arthouse classics.

AXE is closer to heavy drama than horror as three down-at-heel hoodlums are on the run after a bungled killing. They hideout at a remote farmhouse occupied by a withdrawn teenage girl and her catonic grandfather. It seems an ideal hidey-hole: but as the gang discover, there's something very strange about little Lisa...

This film doesn't play by the rules. It lacks the forward motion most people expect from a story, but if you watch it at the right time of night, in the right mood, it can take you somewhere special. The director also acts in the film as an ambivalent gangster, this is a weird little psychodrama, soaked in ambient menace. Films like this deserved to be celebrated because there's something differant going on: the film stays around, lingering in the mind like a dream you almost forgot but not quite.

KIDNAPPED COED was made in North Carolina. Jack Cannon and Leslie Ann Rivers star in this tasteless story of a red-headed woman living in a boarding-house who is kidnapped for money by a small-time criminal. She develops a perverse relationship with her abductor. Others break in and rape her, and the kidnapper turns hero and kills them.

Fans and critics have begun to compare Friedel's films to those of David Lynch and Terrence Malick to give you some idea as to what to expect.