Axe / Kidnapped Coed USED Warner Archive John Polidori

John Polidori

and cinematographer Jean Lépine

boundary pushing rarities

Newly scanned and restored in 4k from the 35mm original negative

Written by Carl Foreman (High Noon) and directed by Fred Zinnemann (High Noon

Axe / Kidnapped Coed USED Warner Archive John PolidoriIn 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